Records Volume 57: Recusant Roll No 2

CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY

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(RECORDS SERIES) VOLUME 57.

Issued to Members for the year 1964-65 .

RECUSANT ROLL No.

2 (1593—1594)

AN ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH

with an explanatoryintroduction by

DOM HUGH BOWLER, O.S.B. , F.S.A.

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CONTENTS

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I. SCOPE OF THIS WORK The term "Recusant" .

II. STATUTES AND PENALTIES

A. The ActsofUniformity, 1549, 1552 and 1559 .

B. The Statute of 1581. Comments : 1. The fineof £20 a month. 2. Recusancyand the Common Informer. 3. Recusancy and the revenue 1581-7 .

C. The Statute of 1586-7 . Comments : 1. The Law Terms. 2. The courts assigned . 3. The accumulative penalty. 4. Pre-1587 debts. 5.SignificanceofsectionIV 6. Theindictment for recusancy. 7. Indictment of non-Catholics for recusancy. 8. Prosecution by indictment and proclamation 9. Qui tam actions after 1587. 10. Inherited debts.

D. Incidence of penalties 1. Recusancy and the revenue 1587-1603 2. Fines in relation to income. 3. The Act 35 Eliz., c 1 , and recusant wives

III. THE EXCHEQUER : FINANCIAL JUDICIAL FUNCTIONSSITE ORGANISATION-

A. The Pipe Rolls and recusant forfeitures

B. The RecusantRolls : 1. Description 2. "Exchequer year" dating.

C. Exchequer procedure relatingto recusancy. IV . THE PRESENT DOCUMENT

A. Classification ofentries: 1. Preambles. 2. Rentals of seized lands : (a) Crown leases (b) Reenrolments of land-seizures and leases . (c) Land-seizures forpre-1587 debts 3.Arrearages of rent. 4. Forfeitures of goods and chattels. 5. Ex-sheriffs' debts 6. Records of annual fines paid 7. Statements of sheriff's arrears. 8. Enrolments of estreated convictions. 9. AnnotationsRecusant cases in the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls.

B. The Palatinates and Wales

C. Statistics and general observations

D. Methodof publication. KEYTO THE ABSTRACTS

TEXT. The countyaccounts (alphabetical order): ENGLAND

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APPENDIX . THE STATUTE OF 1586-7 (text)

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CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY (publications of)

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STATUTES AT LARGE (ed. 1770)

STATE PAPERS (Domestic)

Unpublished Crown-copyright material in the Public Record Office has beenreproducedbypermissionofthe Controller ofH.M. Stationery Office.

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I. SCOPE OF THIS WORK

Over forty years have passed since the Latin text of the first RecusantRoll was printed in the eighteenth volume ofour Society's publications. To all except those acquainted with Exchequer studiesit has remained largely enigmatic. With the aim, therefore, of making more widely available a source of high importance for thehistoryofrecusancyand in recentyears the object ofincreasing interest among research studentsthe Society now ventures to continue theseries by publishingRecusantRoll No.2inthevernacular, and , at the same time, in a form concise enough to render the printingofthe more bulky rolls of later yearsa feasible proposition. The method adopted is that of an analytical abstract in English.¹ Formal and repetitive in style, these rolls are readilyadaptable to such treatment, and the existencein the earlier volume of identical phraseology in the original language, to which the reader can be referred, is an added convenience.2 Details of the scheme are displayedinthe"Keyto the Abstracts" (p cxv), which is reproduced also on a book-mark for easy reference. Further information is given under "Methodofpublication" (p cxii)

The MS is preserved at the Public Record Office, London , and is there listed as document E. 377/2 In the present volume will befoundthe factualcontent ofevery item in theoriginal

The following remarks³broadly applicable to all the Recusant Rollsofthe reign of Elizabeth Iare confined to an explanation of the text. This has involved a lengthy discussion of the antirecusancylaws and a technical study of the system by which they were implemented Consequently, lack of space precludes any serious attempt to describe the general historical setting or to provide biographical comment.

1A similar scheme is adopted in R. B. Pugh's Abstracts of Feet of Fines relatingtoWiltshirefor the reigns ofEdward Iand EdwardII(Wilts Archaeol and Nat History Soc , RecordsBranch, vol 1 ; 1939) Cf. alsoThe Publication ofLatin Records by Joyce Godber (Archives, No. 3 ; 1950)

3 2 In the present case, it has provedpossible by this methodto reducebyabout one half the bulkof the original material

By kind permission of the editors, an article of mine in Recusant History (IV, 182-98), entitled "Some notes on the Recusant Rolls of the Exchequer" , is here freely quoted, expanded and occasionally emended For further reading, cf. Miss M. M. C. Calthrop's Introduction to C.R.S. XVIII, and Timperley of Hintlesham (Methuen, 1931) by G. H. Ryan andL.J. Redstone , chapters 2 and 3

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The term "recusant" meaning and application. In the general sense of"to reject" , the verb "to recuse" appearsin English usage as early as the 14th century, having entered the language probably byway ofthe French récuser (from the Latin recusare). The noun "recusant" (a refuser) is apparently not found before the 16th century, and until the reign of Elizabeth had noparticularreligious connotation . A statute ofEdward VI applied it in 1553 to persons who refusedto pay tithes In 1561, however, an instance occurs ofits use by the EcclesiasticalCommissioners to denote a groupof Catholics who rejected, in its entirety, the settlement of religion as established by the Act of Uniformity of 1559,5 and a few years later the term began to be used in the narrower, and thereafter permanent, sense of persons who refused to attend the Prayer Book services of the Church of England prescribed by that Act Ifwe may trust a highly polemical speech of Sir Edward Coke, its earliest use in the latter sense occurred in 15686six years , be it noted , before the arrival of any missionary priests from Douai. Moreover, Coke's reported words would make it virtually certain that the term was at first applied only to Catholics, who were the upholders ofbeliefs and practices which the new Prayer Book was intended to supplant Evidence of this exclusive application extends even into the mid-1580s Thus in 1583 Gervase Babington couldreferto"our recusants, as wee callthem, that is, our refusing papists to come to church" , " while in March 1586 an abortive bill in Parliament, concerned solely with Catholics, could be entitled "An Actfor the safekeepingof the armourof recusants"8. This is the more remarkable because the decade 1580-90 saw the rise ofthe first formal Protestant seceders from the Established Church,the Brownists and Barrowists, forerunners of modern Congregationalism, whose separatist tendencies , culminating in 1586 , brought

*Act 7 Edward VI, c 4

S.P. 15/11/45 The date of this documentis certainly not later than 1564 , by internal evidence Strype (Annals of the Reformation: ed 1724, pt 1 , p 410) gives the text in full and dates it "Anno 1561 " . The first part is printed in Hughes , The Reformation in England (1594), Vol III, Append VI, pp. 423-7 . In the beginningof the eleventhyear of her [Elizabeth's] reign, Cornwallis, Bedingfieldand Silyard [all Catholics] were the first recusants, they absolutely refusing to come to our churches And until they in that sort began, the name of recusant was never heard of amongst us" . The Lord Coke his speechand charge . (delivered at Norwich Assizes, 4 Aug. 1606), published by R. P., 1607 (B.M.; T. 505. (1)) Coke's main contention is that no Catholics refused "to come toour churches during the first 10 years of her Majesty'sreign" . This is demonstrablyfalse see evidence in Birt, The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, pp 367, 410-11, 416. Nevertheless , his remarkregardingthe use oftheterm maywell be true. 7 Quotedin O.E.D., s.v. "recusant" Cf. D.N.B. for author. Textin Manuscriptsofthe House ofLords (New Series), vol XI Followers of Robert Browne (1550-1633) and Henry Barrow (who , with John Greenwood , was executed at Tyburn in 1593) Browne became a separatist in 1581. Barrowjoined him before1590

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upon themselves severe penalties in 1593 by the Act 35 Eliz., c 1 . Catholics, of course, had never been the only refusers to come to church. Apart from Anabaptists , Familists and other sects of foreign origin, there were the Precisians, those unbending Puritan critics ofthe Prayer Book who, without formal secession from the Establishment , had from the beginning preferred their conventicles to the parish church . 10 Absenteeism indeed was rife, yetitwould seem that so far, only Catholic absentees were styled "recusants" . After 1586, however, as their growth and consolidation increased , Protestant separatists were also given the title, semi-officially, for instance in the Commons debate on the anti-Sectary bill of 1593.11

Nevertheless, any official use of the term in legislation had hitherto always been avoided when referring to non-attendance at church. Even the basic Act of 1581 (23 Eliz., c.1), intended "for such only [as are] of the Romish Religion" , 12 studiously refrained from calling offenders"recusants" Not until the above-mentioned Act of 1593 was the termused statutorilyin connectionwith religion. It was then applied specifically to Catholics (§ 12), clearly defining them as "Popish Recusants " , whenexempting them fromthepenalty ofexile therein prescribed. Protestant Non-conformists onthe other hand, against whomthe Act was directed, were not named"Recusant Brownists" (an expression actually used in the course ofthe preliminarydebate), but "seditious sectaries" and "disloyalpersons obstinately refusing to come to church" .

The reluctance of the Government to use this term in other than a Catholiccontext is thus very marked The most explicitreference everofficiallymadeto abroader interpretation occursinthepreamble of the Act 1 Jac I, c.4 (1604) which speaks of "any manner of recusants" . By contrast, the title "Popish Recusant" remained the official designation of Catholic offenders in all later Acts of Parliament relatingto church attendance.

The question of the inclusion of non-Catholics among persons prosecutedfor recusancyis discussed onp. xxxvi.

II. STATUTES AND PENALTIES

The English Reformation was imposed by law. It is therefore to the Parliamentary statutes that we must look for the aims ofthat epoch-making event The general significance of the present document will be wholly missed unless we first acquaint ourselves

10 By the efforts of Nicholas Crane(D.N.B.) and others, theirfirst permanent "Presbytery" wasestablished in Wandsworth in 1572.

11 Cf. Diary of an anonymous M.P. (B.M.: Cotton MS, Titus 2, ff. 57-97)

One member (Sandes) distinguished between "Recusants generally" and "PopishRecusants" (f. 58v).

13 ThusHenry Finch, memberfor Canterbury, speaking in 1593 (ibid ; f 89v) Cf. Neale, Elizabeth Iand her Parliaments, I, 378-92 ; and II, 280-97.

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with the earlier Tudor Acts of Uniformity. These will enable us to perceiveboththe reasons forCatholicrecusancyand the evolution ofthe methods employed for its suppression.

In the present work the Parliamentary Acts are quoted from the collection known as Statutes at Large, to which reference is made throughout . 13

A. THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY , 1549, 1552 AND 1559

The original cause of recusancy is to be found in the "Actfor the uniformity and administration ofsacramentsthroughoutthe realm" of 1549 (2 and 3 Edward VI, c.1)-a measure unprecedentedin our history, which substituted for the ancient Sacrifice of the Mass a Communion Servicefundamentally at variance with it, at the same time forbiddingthe use of"any other rite".14 The penalty prescribed for a person officiating at a public service with "anyother form"is (in addition to deprivation of benefice ) six months imprisonment withoutbailforthe first offence, one yearforthe second , and, forthe third, life-imprisonment Moreover, anyone "procuring" orcausing the celebration of a different form of service incurs a forfeiture of £10 or imprisonment for three months, without bail, for the first offence, £20 or six months imprisonment for the second offence , and, for the third, the forfeitureto the Crown of all his goods and chattels and imprisonment for life In this Act no penalties were imposedfor the refusal to attend the new service . Undeterred by its hostile reception, 15 Parliament in 1552 passed a second Act ofUniformity (5 and 6 Edward VI, c 1) in whichwas promulgated a revised Book of Common Prayer, with "a more plain and manifest explanation" ofthe Communion Serviceemphasising its inherently Lutheran character 16 The penalties contained in the formerAct were now madeapplicable to this Ofparticular interest to us, however, is the factthat attendanceat the new service is now , for the first time, made compulsory Openly admittingin the preamble that "a great number of people in divers parts ofthe

13Itis important to observe that in S. at L. the divisionsof the Acts and their numberingfrequently differ from thoseshownin the compilation known as "Statutes of the Realm"-although the textsin each case are identical The original engrossed Acts of this period have no such divisions or numbering. Cf. M.F. Bond, Acts of Parliament(an article in Archives, III, No. 20,Mich 1958, pp 214 seq.) In the present work the divisions are referred to as "sections" and are indicatedby thesign§

14 §§1 and 2. Regarding the title here given to the new service, viz. "The celebration of the Lord's Supper, commonly called the Mass" , see Hughes, op cit , II, 108-21 Ifthis was a manoeuvre designed to win the acceptance of the people, it was only partly successful. No later Act refers to the old title until 1581 , when the sayingand hearing of "Mass" wasforbidden and penalised by 23 Eliz., c.1 , §4. The theologicalimplications of all these Acts are closelyexamined byHughes in vols.II and IIIof his important work.

15 E.g. the armedrebellion in Devon, 1549 .

16 Cf. Hughes, op cit , II, 121-6

realm ... abstain and refuse to come to their parish church, " the Act proceeds(§2) to order the punishment of suchpersonsby "the censures ofthe church"-the implicationsof which are referred to below (note 18). Another innovation is the penalty of imprisonment for six months, for one year and for life, for the first, second and third offence respectively, of anyone convicted before the Justices of"hearing or being present at" a form of service other than that prescribed.

Immediately after the five-year interval of Mary's reign, during whichthe aboveActs were repealed, Elizabeth took the momentous decision to reimpose, with some minor modifications , the religion ofthe 1552 Prayer Bookby her Act of Uniformity of 1559 (1 Eliz., c. 2). Whereas, in the matter of penalties, the emphasis under Edward VI had been on imprisonment, a more extensiveuse of the pecuniary type of punishment now manifests itself. Thus the 1552 penalty of imprisonment for being present at forbidden services is omitted , and in revivingthe penalties of 1549 for procuring such services, the Act greatly increases the alternative fines to 100 and 400 marks respectively. 17 We notice in particularthat the 1552 enactment regarding non-attendance reappears ($14) with its punishment by ecclesiastical censures, 18 and that here also a fine is added, namely, twelve pence for every Sunday and festival on which a person wilfully absented himself from the prescribed services in his parish or other usual place of common prayer, "to be levied by the churchwardens . . . of the goods, lands and tenements ofsuch offender, by way of distress" . 19 Thelatter fines are allotted bytheAct specifically "to the use ofthe poorofthe parish"; consequently we observethat the Exchequer rolls, being concerned onlywith the revenue of the Crown, bear no record ofthem. The

17 A mark= 13s 4d. 18 Excommunication (the main censure here referred to), besides depriving a person of the power to sue at law and of the right to burial in consecrated ground, could, if obstinacyprevailed for 40 days and were "signified"tothe Chancery by the bishop, be punished in the civil courtswith imprisonment or fines by the issue of the writ de excommunicato capiendo. Widespread neglect by the sheriffs to execute this writ producedin 1563 the reinforcing Act 5 Eliz., c .23, inwhich the procedure is fully described Fines, imposed for "contempt" in ignoring the sheriff'scitations to "yield their bodies" for imprisonment, were estreated into the Exchequer . Examples, arisingfrom the useofthisweaponby John Scory, bishop of Hereford, in 1578, may be seen in the Pipe Roll of 1582 (E. 372/428, Item Hereford'). The incidence of excommunicationsfor recusancy is worthy of investigation (cf. P.R.O.: class ref , C . 85). The Act 3 James I, c 5 (1605) simplifiedthe procedure by declaring a Popish Recusant excommunicatedipso facto upon conviction , thuseliminating the necessity of a bishop'ssignification (cf. LillyandWallis, A Manual of the Law specially affecting Catholics (1893), 23) 19(Districtio). This was a method of enforcing the performanceof a duty or the paymentof a debt by the seizing and detainingof the debtor'smoveable and immoveablegoods. Not until 1691 (Stat 2WilliamandMary, session 1 , c 5), however , could the distrained property be appropriated or sold Wharton, Law Lexicon , "Distress"

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charge of executing these provisions was laid primarily upon the ecclesiastical courts (§§ 15 and 16), 20 but it would seem that the Act also empowered Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Justices of Assize (with whom the Bishops, within their dioceses,could at their pleasure associate (§ 18), to hear and determine at their sessions any of the above offences , upon indictment for trespass (§17). 21 No person, however, could be punished by both ecclesiasticaland civil courts for the same offence(§ 24).

Enough has been said to show the genesis of recusancy and the manner of its punishment during the first twenty-two years of Elizabeth's reign.22 We must now consider the legislation immediately responsiblefor the procedure exemplified in theRecusant Rolls. This wasformulated in two stages bythe following statutes: (a) "An act to retain the Queen's Majesty's subjects in their due obedience"-23 Eliz , c 1 (1581) (b) "An act for the more speedy and due execution of certain branches of a statute made in the 23rd year ofthe Queen's Majesty's reign, entitled An Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's subjectsin their due obedience"-28-29 Eliz. , c 6 (1586-7)23

In the following remarks I shall refer to these as the Statutes of 1581 and of 1586-7

B. THE STATUTE OF 158124

This dealswith three kinds ofoffences , namely, reconciling and being reconciled to the CatholicChurch,25 saying and hearing Mass , and recusancy. We are concernedonly with the last two.

30 Upon oath ofwitness or confession of offender, however , local magistrates were allowed by Ecclesiastical Commissioners to give to the churchwarden the necessary warrant to distrain (cf. Housebooks of the mayoral court of York, 1576-1601, quotedby Morris , Troubles, series III, 234-295). Summary conviction by one J.P. was declared sufficientfor the levyingofthe 12d fine by Act 3 James I, c 4. 27 (1605-6)

11A "trespass" is "any transgression of the law less than treason, felony or misprision of either" Wharton, op cit

On contemporaryCatholic reactionto the 1559 Act of Uniformity , see Birt, op cit , and Hughes, vol III

33The Parliamentary session during which the latter Act was passed spread, over a part oftwo regnaland civilyears (infra,p.xxii). TheExchequer practice (which I followed in myformer article) was to date the Act by the opening dayofthe session29 Oct.,28 Eliz.: 1586 (cf. infra, p xxiv, note73) Noting however , the divergence of commentatorson this point, I have considered it moresuitableinthe present work to refertoit as "the statuteof 1586-7" .

24 Passed during the session 16 Jan.-18 March, 1581. For the Parliamentary history of this Act, see Neale, op cit , I, 378-92 : cf. also Hughes, III, 343-4 , 362-3

25 Whence it derived its unofficial title "the Act of Persuasions" In §§II andIIIthedeathpenaltyis prescribedfor those who "persuaded" theQueen's subjects, or were themselves persuaded, to withdraw their allegiance fromthe Church of Englandby reconciliationwiththe"Romishreligion"-a proceedingwhichcould now bedeemed lese-majesty by reason ofthe Queen's assumptionof"supreme government in causesecclesiastical"

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The saying and hearing ofMass is punished (§IV) by a fine of 200 marks for the celebrantwith imprisonment until the fine is paid, and, forthe hearer, bya fine of 100 markswith imprisonment for one year. A number of these fines may be seen in the Pipe Rolls of the Exchequer from 1581, but their incidence indicates that convictions for offences of this kind were rare Two of them have found their way into the present Recusant Roll, namely, the debts ofJohn Goldsmith and Gilbert Ticheborne for hearing Mass, for the recovery of which a portion of their property was seized in 1592 (see Hants [15] and [16]) These, in fact, are the only entries inthisrollnotstrictly concernedwith recusancy .

Our main interest, of course , lies in the nine "branches" (sections) oftheAct whichrelate to, or have a bearing on, church-attendance. Here an entirelynew official approach to the problem is apparent.

Section V (the most important) states the offence and imposes a new penalty as follows:

"Be it also further enactedby the Authority aforesaid that every personabove the age of sixteenyears who shall not repair to some church, chapel or usual place of common prayer, but [shall] forbear the same contrary to the tenor of a statute made in the first year of her Majesty's reign for the uniformity of common prayer, and being thereoflawfully convicted, shall forfeitto the Queen's Majesty for every month after the end ofthis session of Parliament [during] which he or she shall so forbear, twenty pounds oflawful English money" . Moreover,ina case ofrecusancyoftwelve months duration, certified in writing by the Bishop or a Justice into the Court of "King's" Bench, the recusant shall there be bound with two sureties in a sum ofat least £200 "to the good behaviour" , and continue so bound until conformity. See "Comments" : 1. The fine of twentypounds a month (p.xiv).

Sections VI and VIIforbid "any person or persons , body-politic or corporate"to keepor maintainafterWhitsunday 1581 a recusant schoolmasterunlicensed by the Bishop, on pain of a fine of£10 for every month of so keeping him. The schoolmaster, upon conviction, shall sufferimprisonment for one year withoutbail.

Sections VIII and IX show that the civil courts are no longer to be regarded as merely ancillaryto the ecclesiasticalin dealing with any offence relatingto religionmentioned in this and earlier statutes of the reign. Thus, whilethe old ecclesiasticalcensures and penalties are to be continued (this is expresslystated in thefinal section oftheAct), recusancyis now made primarily an indictable offence , to be tried by Justices of the Peace in their open sessions , or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer or of Assize and Gaol-Deliveryon their several circuits, within one year and a day after every such offencecommitted

SectionX sets down the remedy for an offender againsttheabove enactments regarding recusancy, recusant schoolmasters and the

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saying and hearing of Mass Before indictment , he shall escape all penalties by submitting and conforming before the Bishop of the diocese in which he resides After indictment , he may be discharged only if, before conviction , he makes a "recognition" of that submission, in open court, at the assizes or sessions of the county wherein his residence lies 26 The text adds the qualifying words "being indicted for his first like offence"-implying, presumably, that, if again indicted, a recusant would have no remedy (even after submission), but upon conviction must pay the penalty.

Section XI calls in the Common Informer, and adds the above three offences to the long and varied list of misdemeanours upon which he was legally entitled to take action. Forfeitures resulting from this method of prosecution are in each case to be dividedinto three equal parts: one third to be allotted to the Queen'spersonal use, a thirdtotheQueenfordistribution(bywarrantofthe principal officers ofthe Receipt of the Exchequer) to the poor ofthe parish in whichthe offencewas committed , and a third to anyperson who will sue for the same in any court of record "by action of debt, bill, plaint or information ; in whichsuit no essoin , protectionor wager of law27 shall be allowed" In this section the only penalty mentioned for those "who shall not be able , or shall fail" to pay their fines within three months after conviction is imprisonment , whichis to continue until payment or conformity, but it should be observed that there is abundant evidence in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls after 1580 that the common law penalty regarding Crown debtors was also enforced, namely, seizure of property for the recovery of these debts See "Comments" : 2. Recusancy and the Common Informer (p xv)

Section XII exempts from all penalties persons who usually attend thelawfully establishedservice in their own homes, provided they put in an appearance at church four times in the year : an enactment, of course, in no way affecting Catholics

Section XIII completes the anti-recusancy provisions of this statute by declaring that every grant, conveyance, bond, judgment or execution made since the beginning ofthis parliament, or hereafter to be made, for the "covinous purpose" of defrauding the Queen of her right to property seizable for this offence shall be utterly void as against the Queen's claims and the claims of an informerwho shall sue for part ofthepenalty .

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1. Thefine of£20 a month (section V). enormous finea remote preparation for

28 Cf. Recusant History, IV, 193 (A.(2))

The impositionof this which may be seen in

27 i.e. "no excuse, immunity or sworn personal testimony" . The passage is theusualstatutoryformula approvingqui tam actions byinformers(see p xv)

the returns of recusants with their financial standing, demanded from the bishops by the Privy Council in 1577was apparently inspired by John Aylmer, Bishop of London, and his colleagues of the Province of Canterbury 28 For the recusant, failingto attend the Anglican services at least once a month, it meant a staggering increase in his liabilities More pertinent to the present study, however, is the importantfactthat since these fines are nowdeclared to be forfeitures to the Crown, recusancy henceforth (as from 18 March, 1581) came under the direct cognisanceofherMajesty's Exchequer, and that in consequence the accounts connected with the levying of them by the sheriffs begin immediately to appear in the Pipe Rolls. The roll covering the year Michaelmas 1580-8129 shows that Judges on circuit and local Justices of the Peace lost little time in applying this law and in certifying convictions of recusantsinto the Exchequer, particularlyfrom London, Hampshire and Yorkshire.

It should be added that the present statute did not revokethe Act ofUniformity in the matter of the twelve-pence fine. 30

2. Recusancy and the Common Informer (section XI). That prosecution at the suit ofan informeris intended bythis Actmerely as an alternative method to prosecution by indictment is clearly implied in section X, and is moreover proved by the records of recusants' convictions (nearly all by indictment) entered in the Pipe Rollsfrom 1581 .

After 1593, indeed, there werethree methodsbywhichproceedings could be taken against recusants, all concurrently in use : (1) by way of indictmentcertainly operative by 1581,31 and greatly altered, procedurally , by the statute of 1586-7 (see pp xxii seq.) ; (2) by Crown informations instituted bythe Attorney General (from 1593) see pp xlvi-viii) : (3) by qui tam actions at the suitof informers (from 1581 : see below) A conviction obtained by methods (1) and (2) entitled the Queen to the full amount of the penalty, i.e. £20 for every month of recusancy. A judgment by method (3) allowed her onlytwo-thirdsofit. 32

In section XI of the present Act we see the statutory application to recusancy of the third methodpenal action by the common informer. As a punitive measure it was by no means ineffectual

28Cf.C.R.S.XXII, pp. 1-114. Notethe tendency to high valuationofrecusant propertyin these 1577 lists (e.g. pp 88-92).

29 Mich 22-23 Eliz (E . 372/426).

31 30Foster's case , 11 Co. Rep 56b, at p 63b: cf. Coke, Reports (ed 1826), VI, 120 Regardingindictments for recusancy under the Act of Uniformity (1559), see above (p. xii)

32 Regarding the portion of the forfeiture earmarkedfor the poor, see p.xxvi, and note 81

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Henceforth informers (otherwise styled "promoters") vied with "pursuivants" as the recusants' most dreaded scourge.33

Actually, with one exception, all the convictions recorded in the presentroll were achieved byway ofindictment It is that interesting exceptionthe estreated forfeiture of Sir John Southworth resulting from an informer'saction (see Lancs. , entry [81])—which renders it necessary here to refer to the general system and its procedure. 34

An informer of this kind differed from a deponent of sworn evidence for purposes of indictment in that he personally sued the accused , "as wellfor the Queen as for himself" (qui tam pro domina Regina quam pro seipso sequitur), with a view to obtaining the portion ofthe forfeiture offered by the statutein recusancy cases , one third of the whole Wherefore his suit was termed a "qui tam action" . It acquired its other title, "popularaction" , because itcould be initiated by any member of the public

This method, seemingly pre-Tudor in origin, of encouraging the private individualto "promote" laws made"for the common good" by active participation in their enforcement was applied for the most part to infringements of the trading regulations Conceived in dayswhen an organised police force was non-existent, the system wasobviouslyfull oflatent socialdanger The high-minded promoter soonfelltoroguery and extortion: various abuses werecomplained of even before 1487.35 Under Elizabeth and James I, by which time many penal statutes carried an invitation to the common informer similar to that in the present Act, the swarms of professional snoopers had become a social pest, likened by the Attorney General himself to a "plague of Egypt" . They operated both singly and in groups. Royal patents were granted to organisers Informing syndicates were founded, mostly in London, by sharpwitted merchants who kept agents in the provinces, specialising in various kinds of offences.36 Most fruitful of abuse was the licence generally allowed to informers of compounding with the accused out ofcourt , withno better safeguardagainst peculation than their

33The two types of functionary are seemingly often confused in contemporary Catholic reports. A "pursuivant" was a messenger or agent employedby such authoritiesasthe Privy Council, thecourtsof High Commissionandthe ecclesiastical courts, and was usuallyarmedwith a warrant to arrest M.J. Havran, The Catholics in Caroline England (1962), ch 7. In the present section I refer specificallyto informers

34Since 1951 , whenthe Common Informer as an English legal institution was finally abolished , several notable studies on the subject of his methodsand procedurein the 16th and 17th centuries have appeared Two ofthem are referredto below

35 Cf. Act 4 Henry VII, c 20 .

36Cf. M. G. Davies , The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship, 1563-1642 (Cambridge, Mass.: 1956), pp 31-6 ; N. J. Williams, Tradesmen in early Stuart Wiltshire (Wilts Archaeol and Nat History Soc (Records Branch), vol XV : 1960), Introd p xvii

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oath of honest intent. This virtually abandoned the execution of the law into private hands, and led, despitethe Act of 1576 (18 Eliz. , c.5), 37 to much unlicenced compounding, traffic in counterfeit compositions and blackmail . 38 Effective reform did not begin until theAct of 1624 "Forthe ease ofthe subjectconcerninginformations upon penal statutes" (21 Jac. I, c. 4), from the benefitsofwhich, however , recusantswere expresslyexcluded. 39

Actions of this kind could be commenced, within a year and a day after the presumed offence, in any court of recordQuarter Sessions, Assizes , Star Chamber, or in one of the three superior courts at Westminster, King's Bench, Exchequer, or Common Pleas 40 A court much frequented by informers for this purpose was that of Exchequer, wherein, fortunately, the incidence of such actions is noweasily ascertainable An intact series of rolls known as "Memoranda Rolls of the Queen's (or King's) Remembrancer" , containing a record of each case, still exists at the P.R.O., together with "Agenda Books" which provide a complete index to them . 41 These entries in the Memoranda Rolls always include a repetition ofthe original information42 which had been laid before the court atthe outset ofthe action.43

The record in Southworth's case is (for this class of document) exceptionally full, and well illustrates the procedure . 44 The informer, "Hugh Cuffe of London, gentleman" , "exhibited" his information before the Exchequer baron, John Sotherton, on 12 January 1581/2, who produced it in court on the 23rd , the

37 By SIII of this Act no composition was legal beforeanswer had been madein court to the information, and then only by order and consent ofthecourt.

38 Williams, p. xvi Forexamples ofthe demand for hush-moneyby informers, see Davies, pp 60 , 150 .

39 Section I (3) of this Act limited the exhibiting of informations to the county in which the offence was committed This regulation was inapplicable to recusancy in which the offence was indefinite in regard to place (" ... or anyotherchurch ... ") In Grimstone v. Molineux(1618), Hob. 251 , a further reason was given by Hobart, viz that recusancy was a non-feasance , "not a commission , but anomission"

40 Cf. S.P. 14/115, f 30.

41 In the same repository are preserved the records of all the other courts mentioned above, except those of Quarter Sessionswhich are mostly housed in the variouscounty record offices .

42An information in Exchequer qui tam actions may be recognised by its opening words : "Memorandumquod [name, address and style of informer] qui tam pro domina Regina [domino Rege] quam pro seipso sequitur in propria persona venit et tam pro eadem dicta Reginaquam pro seipso dedit Baronibushuius Scaccarii intellegi et informari quod Some original informations are to be found in E. 148/2 and 3

43Out of term, an information could be exhibitedprivately beforeone of the barons, who would himself deliver it into court when term began The "exhibiting" initiated the action and its date was always recorded. Baron John Sotherton was the recipient of many Exchequer informations temp . Elizabethand James I.

44Q.R., M.R., Hilaryterm, 24 Eliz. (E. 159/382, rot 95). This roll contains theMemorandaoftwo terms, Hilaryand Easter , 1582 . B

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opening day of Hilary term Herein Cuffe alleged that "John Southworth of the parish of Blakeborne, Lancs , knight" , had lived "continuously" in that parishfrom 19 March 1580/81 (the dayafter the passingof this Act) until the said 12th day of January, and had not resorted at any time during that period to his parish church or to any other church, chapel or usual place of common prayer. Declaring that he hereby sued Southworthfor this offenceonbehalf of the Queen and of himself, he craved directionof the court that a forfeitureof£180 be imposedforthe abovenine months recusancy, and that he (Cuffe) be allotted the third part (£60) ofthis sum , due to him byvirtueofthe presentstatute.

A subpoena was now allowed to Cuffe to be served uponSouthworth, bidding him to appear in the court of Exchequer on the following 30 April to answer the charge Unlike the majority of recusants, whoin similar circumstancescould not afford the expense of litigation or had no grounds upon which to fight the case, Southworthduly presented himself, pleaded"not guilty" and asked for a trial, maintaining that the information was "insufficient in law" . Details ofthe pleading are omitted, but we maybe surethat the plea was not grounded upon either "conformity" or "previous conviction" (autrefois convict), which, when stated by the accused , are always explicitlymentioned in suchrecords46 Apparentlysome factualerrorin the informationwas urged.

45

The trialwasfixed to take place at the Exchequeronthefollowing 25 June. On that day Southworth was again in attendance, so also, for the Crown, was the Attorney General, John Popham, but the barons, unable to bring a Blackburn jury to Westminster, removed the hearing to the Lancaster Assizes , where, before the justices of Nisi Prius on August 27th, he was found guilty ofthe charge as described in Cuffe's information Upon notification of the verdict, the barons once again summoned Southworth (this time to Hertford Castle on 3 November) to hear judgment ofhis case . Here the court gave recovery (recuperatio) against him of the sum of £180, in the proportion of £120 for the Queen and of £60 for Cuffe . With this the record ends . 47

45In suchcasesthe entry ends abruptly withthe wordssuper quo (whereupon), followed by a blank space This indicates that, the accused having notified the court that he admitted the allegation and was willing to compound, a licence to do so was grantedto the informer Cf. Williams, op cit, p xvi It should be noted that an Act of 1587 (29 Eliz , c 5, last section) allowed defendants to answer to informations through an attorney

46 Judges would apparently accept no plea in bar of the action except on one of these grounds Foster's case, 11 Co. Rep 56b, at pp 65a, 65b. Coke's solution of the case of the recusant London physician, Richard Foster(1614), is our main contemporaryauthority concerningthe legal aspects of qui tam actionsfor this offence : cf. Reports (1826), VI, 123

47 It is worth noting that throughout this case (i.e. from 29 March, 1582) Southworth's official abode was Salford gaol, whence he was convicted , upon indictment, at Manchester and Lancaster for recusancy on three separate occasions. Pipe Roll, E. 372/427, Lancastr' .

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His debt to theQueen was thereupon entered in the PipeRollof the Exchequer, 48 in the form in which, after several repetitions in the intervening years, it survives in the present Recusant Roll . 49 Normally the Exchequer would have immediately charged the sheriff to levy the debt, but, presumably because Palatinate sheriffs never accounted at Westminster (see p cvi), no reference to its levying appearsin the Exchequer records. Whether Cuffe actually obtained his share is likewise not shown Further details of Southworth's Exchequer dossierwill be found onp.xxxi

The Agenda Books prove that in the period 1582-1587 only 80 informations against recusantswere exhibited in the Exchequer and were exceedingly rare in the last four years If this was the informers'favourite court, 50 itwouldtherefore appearthat,compared with the prosecutions by indictment , qui tam actions forthis offence , lawfully pursued, were very few. However, no sure estimate of their general incidence can be made until the records of the other courts mentioned above have been examined In this connection we should bear in mind that there were indeed several factors discouraging to the informerin recusancycases . In his operations against illicit trading he had mostly a free hand, but here he faced experienced competitorsthe archdeaconand the church-wardenwhose facilitiesfor the discovery of recusants were immeasurably greater. Moreover , he had to be wide awake to forestall their presentments No offender could be convicted by both methods for the same period of recusancy, and an informer could easily find himselfdefeated by a plea of autrefois convict on the partof his intended victim, claiming that he had already been convicted by indictment. A certificate of conformity could have the same effect The labour entailed and the uncertainties ofthis particular class of business may well have caused his initial enthusiasmfor lawfully conducted actions of this kind to wane. Evidence that Elizabethan recusants suffered, along with others, from the malpractices of pseudo-informers certainly exists,51 but remains to becollated.

48 Ibid., under Res' Lancastr' . 49Such entries differ from estreats of convictions by indictmentin that they clearly state that the Queen is due to receive merely two-thirds of the fine They occurin thePipeRoll only when the action was begun in the Exchequer and prosecuted to judgment in court, and when recuperatio was entered against the defendant The extreme rarity of these cases (I can find only four other recusant instances in the Elizabethanrollsall of them confined to the period 1581-5) proves that whateverprofitthe informersmadeoutof this class ofworkmusthave been acquiredalmostentirely by wayofcomposition, legalor illegal, out of court Theactualamountis of course unknown. It appears from the records of the Clerk of the Pells (infra, p li) that the Crown's share averaged, in theyears 1581-97, a paltry £316 p.a. frompopular actions of all kinds (F.C. Dietz, The Exchequer in Elizabeth's reign (Smith College Studies in History, vol VIII, No. 2 : 1923), pp 85-8, "Forfeitures on penal statutes"

50 Williams, p xvi

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We mayconclude with a referenceto the outstanding personality among the informing fraternity of this periodHugh Cuffe . From the Q.R.Memoranda Roll cited above(p xvii, n 44)thefactemerges that he was the first informer against recusants in the court of Exchequer. Sir John Southworth was one of his earliest victims, 24 of whom (from 12 counties) were sued by him in Hilary term 1581/2 Ofthe five who answered the subpoena none wasacquitted, but only one besides Southworth (Nicholas Langford of Longford, Derbyshire) is recorded (rot 240) as having, like him, actually lost his case by judgment of the Exchequer barons With the 19 others Cuffe was doubtless licensed to compound privatelythe details of which are, as usual, not stated As an informer, he ceased to operate after Easterterm 1583. His work in another, and apparently interrelated, capacity is referred to below . 52

3. Recusancy and the Revenue, 1581-87 . The gearing of the complicated Exchequer machinery to its new task was a slow process. Although spurred to action at the beginning of 1582 bythe PrivyCouncil and inparticularby Lord Treasurer Burghley, 53 it was not until Michaelmas 1583 that the Exchequer produced its first general statement ofreceipts from the forfeitures of recusants They were not spectacular , amountingonly to £908-15-6. Up to 1587, indeed, the average yearly revenuefrom this source was no higher than £1,878.54

The special instructions issued in 1582 make clear the Privy Council's demand that the first fines incurred under this statute should be paid into the Receipt ofthe Exchequer by Easter of that same year 55 With a fine of such magnitude, the demand was evidentlyregarded as purely formal, for every sherifffailed in his task. Exchequer records indicate that the first payment was not received until 21 November 1582.56 This was from Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton, Northants, who paid in full his fine of £100 for five months recusancy, and at the same time a fine of£66-13-4 (100 marks) for hearing Mass on the preceding January 7th in the Fleet prison, London57

After their initial failure sheriffs were authorised to levy partpayments ofthe fines from the ascertained land-rents of recusants and from the sale of their goods seized for this offence. A special commission for the seizure of goods was sent to MatthewHutton , Dean of York (and later Archbishop), with regard to recusants

52 p xxi, note 60

53Infra, p lix.

54These figures are takenfrom Dietz, op cit

55 Cf. the Treasurer's "Letter" , infra, p lix.

56 Pells Receipt Book, E. 401/1832

37 Pipe Roll , E. 372/426, Res' Northant' .

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within that city 5 By these means an additional £517-2-2 was raised by the following 18 February (1582/3) Writs of extent, requiring sheriffs to proceed to the valuationand actual seizure of recusants' lands wereapparently not sent out earlier than Hilary, term 1582/3.59 The first four properties so seized (three in Hants , one in Wilts.) were immediately let bythe Crown, as from Michaelmas 1583 , to the ubiquitous Hugh Cuffe at fixed rents payable twice yearly into the Treasury, at Easter and Michaelmas . 60 Meanwhile, in accordance with the Act, recusants were imprisoned for not paying their fines, and, moreover, were repeatedly re-convicted -during their incarcerationfor refusing to attend Anglican services in the churches adjacent to their gaols . 61

While thus graduallyand tentatively applying its ancient procedures to new business , the Exchequer, now faced with a vast increase in its administrative and clericalwork, had to contend with notable laxity in the provinces on the part of executive officers, and consequently with frequent evasion of the penalties by the recusants themselves In short, six years' experiencerevealed inadequacies in the Act and irregularities in its execution whichurgentlyneeded to be rectified . Clarification and reinforcement were called for. Bothwere emphatically provided in the following Act, 28-29 Eliz , c. 6 (1586-7).

58Hutton's contribution of £17-2-2 (the first of its kind under this statute) was paidintotheExchequeron 6 Feb. 1583 , andcomprised 9s fromMargaret Sylvester, £10 from Ambrose Cooke, £6-8-2 fromWilliam Wylkynson and 5s from Richard Durham (Pipe Roll, E. 372/427, Civitas Ebor').

59 See themarginalnotefi[at] bre[ve] deextend [ifacias] in Pipe Roll, E. 372/428: e.g. under Adhuc Res' London', and Monmuth' .

60Afurther set of21 leasesin 10 countieswas grantedto Cuffeat Michaelmas , 1585 (Pipe Roll, E. 372/431, Adhuc Item London'), a numberof which willbe found still surviving in the present Recusant Roll. Although I can find no evidence that he was employedon the staff of the Exchequer , it is certain that he worked in a special way under Exchequerdirection (cf. S.P. 12/229 , f 65) As the earliestinformer againstrecusants and as thefirst of a long line of Crown-appointedfarmers of recusant lands, his career and methods could throw valuable light on early recusant history and deserve closer study. If"Hugh Cuffeof London, gent " is to be identifiedwiththeancestor ofthe Earls ofDesart (D.N.B., s.n. "Cuff, Henry") he became, after 1586 , "one of the Undertakers for the escheated lands in Munster" (A.P.C., 1590 , pp 37-8, 45) and was granted large estates in Co. Cork A similar line of business, we perceive

61 Seethe lists ofconvictedrecusants, and their parishes, in the Lancs ,Surrey/ Sussex and London/Middx sections of the Pipe Rolls of 23-29Eliz Many of these persons we know, from other sources, to have then been prisoners in gaols situatedinthe parishes mentioned A later instance of this practice occurs in the present roll, viz Surrey/Sussex, entry [32] The Southwark recusants therenamedwere actually prisonersin theClink, a gaol in the said parishof St. Mary(cf. C.R.S. II, 285-7) Two of them, Ralph Emersonand John Lillye, were Jesuitlay-brothers(cf. P. Caraman, JohnGerard , 78-9).

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C. THE STATUTE OF 1586-7

Solely concerned with recusancy, the bill "For the more speedy and due execution of certain branchesofa statute made in the23rd year of the Queen's Majesty's reign . . . " was introduced in the House of Lords on 11 March, 1586/7, and received the royal assent on the 23rd of the same month after three readings in each House. Only one dissentient voice was raisedthat of the Earl of Rutland, the reasons for whose attitude are not disclosed The Commons receiveditonTuesday, 14th, and passed it on the following Saturday, having added an amendment and a provisionwhich(as printed in Statutesat Large) nowform the last two sections ofthe Act . 62 These facts are recorded in the Parliamentary Journals63 and comprise, in brief, our total knowledge ofits history.

To a Parliament just recovering after some three months of concentrated, implacable and finally successful clamour for the blood of Mary, Queen of Scots, 64 this cool, meticulous lawyers' bill must haveappearedsingularly insipidfare, anditis not surprising that its passage was swift, if not perfunctory Possibly for this reasonit has receivedscantattentionfrom Parliamentary historians D'Ewes calls it "a bill of no great moment" . Neale65 does not even mention it Yet, completely overhauling the legislation of 1581 and adding new features of far-reaching consequence , this definitive Act formed, for a hundred years , the basic authority for all Exchequer dealings with recusancyas is stated in every Recusant Roll throughout the period66and was for that reason specially enrolled among the Exchequer's Memoranda . 67 Consideringthe amount of juridical comment which it evoked during that time, 68 we must surely regard it as an Act of no little importance for the legal, as for the social historyofthe 16th and 17th centuries. Thefull text ofthe present statute is given in the Appendixto this volume (p 226). Its opening section is a sweepingextension of the 13th section of theStatute of 1581 relatingto "fraudulentconveyances " (see p xiv) It nullifies all assurances of land made by recusantssincethe beginningofthereign, whichwererevocable by the recusantand intended for the maintenance or relief of himself and his family, declaring

62Theoriginal Bill, engrossed on parchment(preserved in the House ofLords RecordOffice), still retainsthe Commons' amendments written on a separate membrane and attached to it

63 SirSimondsD'Ewes, A Complete Journal ... ofthe House ofLords andthe House ofCommons ... throughout the whole reign ofQueen Elizabeth (ed. 1693), pp 386-9, 416-7

64Neale, op. cit. , II, 103-91

65 Op. cit.

66 See Preamble to Bedfordshirein the present roll Thereference was omitted during the Interregnum

67Q.R., M.R., 29 Eliz , Easter term (E. 159/392, rot. 177).

68 See the published Law Reports of Coke, and of other sub-contemporary judges, referred to amongthe marginaliato this Actin Statutes atLarge

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them to be utterly void as hindrances to the exaction offorfeitures for this offence. Henceforth such lands may be seized to Her Majesty's use . It is noteworthy , first, that unlikethe enactment of 1581, the avoidance is made retrospective to 1558, and, secondly, that all such assurances are here assumed to be "covinous" , i.e. made for the purpose of defrauding the Queen of her dues. Itwas this last point whichdrew forthfrom the Commons the amendment (§VIII) sanctioning grants and leases "heretofore made (and hereafter to be made) bonafide, without fraud or covin" , uponwhicha yearly rent is reserved and whose revocabilityby the recusant does not threaten the Queen's claims . 69

Section II is concerned with convictions and their certification . Estreats70 of all recorded convictions for recusancy still remaining inthe handsofJustices must be deliveredinto the courtofExchequer before the end of Easter term, 1587, i.e. at a "convenient" time to enable process to be issued for seizure of the property of such recusantsas have failed to pay their fines For the same purpose, estreats ofall future convictions must be similarly certified into that court by the end of the term next following the date of conviction . Moreover, no convictionfor recusancy shall henceforth take place elsewhere than in the court of King's Bench, or at Assizes, or General Sessions ofGaol-delivery

This section, we should note, is the statutoryfoundation of all "estreats of convictions " recorded in the present roll, and explains the timing oftheir enrolment." Its most notable feature, however, is the withdrawalfrom the Commission of the Peace of the power (hitherto possessed) of proceeding to conviction upon indictments for recusancy. The implied criticism of Justices of the Peace was possibly due to past experience of their laxity in the matter of estreatingand certifyingconvictions , and oftheir over-sensitiveness to local interests . Nevertheless, disqualification did not apparently extend to preliminary grand jury inquisitions upon such bills presented at Sessions of the Peace 72 See "Comments" : 1 . The Law Terms. 2. The Courts assigned. (pp. xxviii-ix).

The next three sections effect radical changes in the method of prosecuting for this offence and provide the authorityfor the form and content ofthe majority of entries in our document.

69 Technicalpoints which possiblyformed the gist of Rutland's earliercriticism duringthe3rd readinginthe Lords RegardingRutland's religiousopinions, cf. C.R.S. LIII, 380

70An"estreat" (Lat extracta) is "a true extract, copy or note of an original writing or record" . Wharton, Law Lexicon

71 Cf. "Enrolmentsofestreated convictions" , infra, p.xcvi seq.

72 Cf.p xxv, n 76. The ban on J.P.s withregard tothe conviction ofrecusants lasted until 1606, when itwas liftedbytheAct 3 James I, c 4, §7.

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Section III refers only to recusants convicted before 29 October 1586,73 and deals, first, with the accumulation of unpaid fines incurredbythem upto that time. All such recusants, ifthey have not yet submitted and conformed according to "the true meaning" of the statute of 1581, shall, "without any other indictment or conviction" , pay into the Exchequer all arrears of debt estimated by the rate of £20 for every month since their first conviction ; the total debt to be cleared in two payments, one half by the end of Trinity term 1587 and the other half by the end of Hilary term 1588unless other times be fixed, with good bond and surety, by arrangement with the chief officers of the Exchequer before the end of the said Trinity term. Secondly, it is enacted that the same recusants, until they submitand conform as above, shall henceforth also pay into the Exchequer every Easter and Michaelmas term (still without the necessity of any other indictment or conviction) the half-yearly sum of their current fines of £20 a month . 74 See "Comments" 3. The accumulative penalty 4. Pre1587 debts (pp. xxix-xxxii).

Section IV is concerned with recusants convicted on or after 29 October 1586. It has two well-defined themes : (1) regulations relating to the payment of fines ; (2) the alternative penalty in case of non-payment. The first part of this section lays down (a) that a recusant, "once convicted, shall, in such of the terms of Easter or Michaelmas as shall be next after such conviction" , pay intothe Exchequer a sum comprising not only £20 for every month referred to in the indictment upon whichhe wasconvicted, but also £20 for every monthintervening betweenthe date ofhis conviction and the said next term of Easter (or Michaelmas) and (b) that thereafter he shall continue to pay into the said Exchequer, still "without any other indictmentor conviction" , in every Easter and Michaelmas term , the half-yearly sum of his current fines of £20 a month. In the second part it is provided that "ifdefault shall be madein any part of any payment aforesaid . . the Queen's Majesty shall and may, by process out of the Exchequer, take, seize and enjoyallthe goods, and two parts as wellofallthe lands, tenements

73 See Appendix. The Exchequer , interpreting the word "heretofore" in accordance with the legal custom of the time (see below), adopted, as the terminal date for these "pre-1587" arrears, not 23 March 1587 (when this Act received the royal assent), but 29 Oct. 1586 (the opening day of the present session of Parliament). All the fixed debts imposed by this section will be seen , in the Pipe Rolls, to relate to recusancy convictions antecedent to the latter date "Before 1793 [33 Geo III, c. 13], Acts ofParliament , unless the contrary were expressed therein, came into force as from the first day of the session in which they were passed (G. de C. Parmiter, Saint Thomas More and the Oath Downside Review, Winter 1959-60 , p. 9, note 27).

74As thePipe Rolls again indicate, the current monthly debts of suchrecusants were reckoned to begin on 29 Oct. 1586the first payment being due at Easter, 1587 (see precedingnote)

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and hereditaments, leases and farms" ofthe recusant (including, of course , such property as is declared seizable in the first section of this Act), "leaving the third part only of the lands, tenements ... [etc. as above]... to andfor the maintenanceand reliefofthe same offender, his wife, children and family" . See "Comments" : 5. Significance of section IV (pp xxxii-v).

Section V, disregarding but not abrogating-"popularactions" by informers for this offence, 75 concentrates its whole attention upon the more ancient method of prosecution by indictment, and the aims at effecting "more speedy" convictions by (a) widening the applicability of indictments, and (b) simplifying the courtprocedure

(a) In describing the offender's place of abode, the indictment shall be sufficient in law ifit give the name of the place where "at any time before such indictment he was, or did keep house or residence" . No mention need be made in the indictment of his being an inhabitant of "this realm of England, or any other the Queen's Majesty's dominions" . If he happen, in fact, to be living elsewhere , "he shall be relieved by plea to be put in in that behalf, and not otherwise" .

The intentionofthis ruling was to relax certain of the strict rules relating to indictments, non-compliance with which would have rendered the indictment bad. Its observance thereafter may be inferred from the frequent insertion ofthe word nuper ("lately"-of this or that place) in later indictments for recusancy

(b) The new method of procedure in prosecutions by indictment is noteworthy in that it legalises the conviction of an indicted recusantinhis absence, i.e. by the mererecord ofhis non-appearance incourttoanswerthe charge. The textofthis importantenactment is as follows : " ... And that uponthe indictment ofsuch offender, a proclamation shall be made at the same Assizes or Gaol-delivery in which the indictmentshall be taken (if the same [indictment] be taken atanyAssizes orGaol-delivery),76 bywhichit shall becommanded

75 See "Qui tam actions after 1587" , infra, p. xl

70A question raised by this parenthesis was whether, if an indictment for recusancy were taken at Sessions of the Peace (which was allowed : see ref to Coke below), the "proclamation" would have to be madeat "thesame" Sessions of the Peace The recusant Francis Plowden(see Shropshire[15] and Berks [6]in the present roll) pleaded in the court of Exchequer , in 1594, the illegality of his conviction on precisely this point He had been indicted at the Guildhall Sessions of the Peace, London (28 June 1591), but proclaimed atthecoincident Newgate Gaol-delivery Sessions ThethenAttorney General (Coke himself) allowed this plea and Plowden was discharged (L.T.R., M.R., Mich 36 Eliz , Recorda : E. 368/477, rot 133) Referring in 1614 to the Plowden case, Coke maintained that the indictment ought originally to have been removed into King's Benchfor further process. In 1591 , therefore, there was evidently an opinion that J.P.s had no power to proclaimrecusantsan opinion which Coke did not share. Cf.Foster's case , 11 Co. Rep. 56b, at p 63b (Reports (1826), VI, 120)-where Plowdenis erroneously named"Edward" .

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that the body of such offender shall be rendered to the sheriff ofthe same countybefore the said next Assizes or Gaol-delivery to be holden in the same county And if at the said next Assizes or Gaol-delivery the same offender, so proclaimed, shall not make appearanceofrecord, that then, upon suchdefault recorded, the same shall be as sufficient a conviction in law of the said offence whereof the party so standeth indicted as is aforesaid, as if upon the same indictment a trial by verdict thereupon had proceeded and beenrecorded" .

See "Comments" 6. The Indictment for recusancy . 7. Indictment of non-Catholicsfor recusancy . 8. Prosecutionby indictment and proclamation 9. Qui tam actions after 1587 (pp xxxv-xli).

Sections VI, radically altering §X of the Statute of 1581 , offers to the convicted recusant, in returnfor submission and conformity in the manner prescribed by that Act, an immediate cessation of all fines and the restoration of his lands seized by reason of them, for so long as he continues to come to church It adds, however, the condition that he shall first "make full satisfaction of all the arrearages of £20 monthly"-a proviso seriously discouraging to would-be conformers Not until 1604 (by the Act 1 James I, c 4, §4) was this requirement dropped. Nevertheless, in the meantime, it became the practice for recusants, when pleading their conformityin the court of Exchequer, to crave also their inclusion in the Queen's General and Free Pardon (confirmed at every Parliamentary session) which explicitly_remitted such arrears of debt in the case of conforming recusants." petitions the Attorney General was always ready to approve, thus circumventing the demands of the Act. On the whole, therefore , the path to freedom was made considerably easier after 1587 ; although (as Hawkins notes78) there still remained no remedy for the conformer to obtain restitution of such profits of his lands as had actuallybeen taken See "Comments" 10. Inherited debts (pp xli-iii).

These

Section VII states that "it shall and may be lawful" for the Lord Treasurer, the Chancellor and Chief Baron of the Exchequer (or any two of them) to dispose of a third part of the fine of £20 a monthhithertolimited by the Statute of 1581 (§XI) to "the poor in the parish in which the offence shall be committed"-for the maintenance not only of the poor but also of "Houses of Correction" , 79 and of"impotent and maimed soldiers" .

Two points should be noted. First, the revenueto be so divided is money received from fine-payments, not from rents or sale of goods Secondly, any allowances for the above purpose would

77Anexampleis cited in Recusant History (BiographicalStudies), II, 128 78Pleas ofthe Crown (1724), I, ch 10 , sect 54.

79 Reformatory-prisonsfor rogues : "bridewells" One or more was ordered to be established in every county by an Act of 1575 (18 Eliz., c. 3, § 5)

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normally have been madein the Exchequer, by a transaction known as "assignmentoftally" , but actual instances of this have yet to be found . 80 The Recusant Rolls, in recording such receipts (e.g. infra, Bucks., [4]), merely state the full amount of the payment, without reference to its disposal. In the year Michaelmas 1593-4, covered by the present roll, the Exchequer received a total of £3,380 from recusant fine-payments, of which therefore about £1,127 should have been earmarked for the causes describedin thisAct. 81

The final two sections (VIII and IX), as already said, were contributed bythe Commons

Section VIII safeguardsthe validity of all past and future grants and leases made bona fide byrecusantswhichin no way obstructed the Crown's entitlement to forfeitures due by reason of their recusancy

Section IX disallows retention by the Crown, after a recusant's death, ofsuch seized lands as had been originally possessed byhim "onlyfor term of his life, or in the right of his wife" .

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1. The law terms (section II). The performance of judicial business in the court of Exchequer (as also in the other superior courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, likewise established at Westminster) was confined to four short periods in the year, known as "terms" 82 Frequently referred to in the present document, these were as follows : Michaelmas Term (with whichthe year began):

(a) (until 1641) from 9th or 10th October to 28th or 29th November.

(b) (1641-1752 ) from 23rd or 24th October to 28th or 29th November.

80 Dietz, op. cit., lists no such disbursements under "Expendituresof the Exchequer" (pp 91 seq)

81With regard to Augustus Jessopp's well-known statement (One Generation of a Norfolk House (1879), p 115) that despite §XI of the statuteof 1581 he hadnever "metwiththefaintest trace ofevidence that the poor of the parish in any one case benefited directly or indirectly by thefinesthat were levied" , itmust be pointed out that, actually, £476-8-2 was issued in March 1583 by the Exchequer teller, Henry Killigrew, to Sir Christopher Wray and Sir Edmund Anderson, Justices of Assize in Norfolk and Suffolk, "to be distributed by them to the poor" of Pudding Norton, Bilney, Brusyard, Long Melford and eight other places in those counties-"being one-third of the fines levied from recusants" dwelling there, in accordance with the said statute(Tellers' Views ofPayments : E . 403/2270) Many other instances of similar disbursements to various officers in other counties for this purpose may be seen in these books for the period 1582-7 It is clear that the Exchequer, at least, didits duty.

82 Jacob, Law Dictionary The High Court of Parliament, the Court of Chanceryandtheinferior courtsofjustice did not observe theterms

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EasterTerm (until 1830) from Wednesday fortnight after Easter to Mondayafter Ascension Day.

Trinity Term: (until 1830) from Friday after Trinity Sunday to Wednesdayfortnightfollowing. It should be emphasised that the above periods related only to the formal sittings of the Exchequer as a tribunal of law, engaged chieflyin calling Crown debtors to account, hearing their petitions and punishing their offences 83 In its capacity as a financial department concerned with the receiving, auditing and recording of Crown revenue, the Exchequer worked continuously throughout the year, and its large clerical staffwas alwaysfullyoccupied

2. The courts assigned (section II) Of the three courts (King's Bench, Assizes, General Gaol-delivery) authorised by this statute to convict upon indictments for recusancy, the most common venue for such proceedings in the period 1587-1607 was the Assizes . 84 Thejudicial assemblies so styled were held twice a year in thechief townsofeverycounty, groupedforthispurposeintosix"circuits" , and were presided over in each case by two judges of the great Westminster courts who in pairs travelled their appointed circuits during the vacation period after Hilary term (for the Lent Assizes) and after Trinity term (for the Summer Assizes). Empowered to hear and determine every kind of offence committed within the area of their jurisdiction, they held five separate commissions, notably the comprehensive commission of Oyer and Terminer and the general commission of Gaol-delivery As "Justices of Assize and Gaoldelivery" they could, according to circumstances, proceed upon indictments for recusancyby either of these commissions, although in practice business of this kind seems to have been conducted normallyby virtue of the latter . 85 It should therefore be observed that sessions of Gaol-delivery were an integral part ofthe Assizes , and usually concluded the Assize proceedings in each county. Middlesex (with the City of London), however, was exceptional in that, alone of the counties, it had no Assizes . It was evidently in order to cover this situationthat the words "or Gaol-delivery" were inserted in the Act. Henceforth convictions for recusancyin Middlesex and London were recorded at the Sessions of General

83 Seep lii

84 See p.xcviii

85 Theprimary and original objectofthis commissionwas to"deliver" (evacuate) the local gaols by bringing the prisoners detained therein to trial The charging of Justices of Gaol-delivery to "inquire of, hear and determine" recusancy offencesinwhich thevast majority ofoffenders were notprisoners -indicates how broad had become the interpretation of its scope Cf. Hawkins, Pleas ofthe Crown, II, ch 6, §§ 5 and 19 .

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Gaol-delivery of Newgate, held at the Old Bailey, London, about eight times intheyear . 86

The courtofKing's Bench, the supreme courtofcriminaljurisdiction, usually sat in Westminster Hall, but, like the other superior courts (including, occasionally, the Exchequer), was also "ambulatory" , that is to say, it accompanied the sovereign during her progresses By reason of its pre-eminence it could, in additionto exercising its own original jurisdiction, demandby the issue of the writ certiorari87the removal from an inferior court into King's Bench of any indictment presenting legal difficulties and proceed to judgment upon it. A cursory examination of"Ancient Indictments" and Controlment Rolls of King's Bench (preserved at the Public Record Office88) leaves the impression that all indictments for recusancy there dealt with were originally removed thither from other courts

The surviving records of the Assizes are likewise preserved at P.R.O., but only those ofthe South Eastern circuit contain indictments of the reign of Elizabeth . 89 Records of the Gaol-deliveries of Newgate are in two series, separatelyhoused (a) Those pertaining tothe countyof Middlesex are preserved at Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster (b) those pertaining to the City of London , atthe Records Office of the Corporation of London, Moorgate, E.C. The former series, datingfrom 1549, is in process of being calendared90 : recusant material in the latter (1605-85) is published in C.R.S. vol. xxxiv.

3. The accumulative penalty (section III). One of the most importantfeatures of the present Act is its explanation (inthis and the 4th section) of the nature of the penalty imposed in §V ofthe statute of 1581.91 For the past five years the total obligation of the convicted recusant had been considered to be limited to the fines specified in his occasional indictments This theoryis now claimed to have been a serious misinterpretation of the said enactment in reality his obligationwas far more extensive The "truemeaning" ofthat clause (nowcarefully stated) is that a single conviction is sufficient to involve the recusant in a continuous series of monthly fines of £20 until he shall have conformedregardless of later indictments and convictions As a 17th century

86 Cf.C.R.S.XXXIV , Introd. ,

87 Ibid. p. xxxix pp vii-x.

88 Class refs.: K.B. 9 and K.B. 29

89 Class ref.: Assizes 35

90Bound typescript volumes of this calendar, entitled Middlesex Sessions Records , may be seen at B.M. and P.R.O. Cf. also Middlesex County Records, edited by J. Cordy Jeaffreson (4 vols : 1892).

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:

EasterTerm : (until 1830) from Wednesday fortnight after Easter to Mondayafter Ascension Day.

TrinityTerm: (until 1830) from Friday after Trinity Sunday to Wednesdayfortnightfollowing. It should be emphasised that the above periods related only to the formal sittings of the Exchequer as a tribunal of law, engaged chiefly in calling Crown debtors to account, hearing their petitions and punishing their offences . 83 In its capacity as a financial department concerned with the receiving, auditing and recording of Crown revenue, the Exchequer worked continuously throughout theyear, and its large clerical staffwas alwaysfully occupied

2. The courts assigned (section II) Ofthe three courts (King's Bench, Assizes, General Gaol-delivery) authorised by thisstatuteto convict upon indictments for recusancy , the most common venue for such proceedings in the period 1587-1607 was the Assizes84 The judicial assemblies so styled were held twice a year in thechief towns ofeverycounty , groupedforthispurposeintosix"circuits" , and were presided over in each case by two judges ofthe great Westminster courts who in pairs travelled their appointed circuits during the vacation period after Hilary term (for the Lent Assizes) and after Trinity term (for the Summer Assizes) Empowered to hear and determine every kind of offence committed within the area of their jurisdiction, they held five separate commissions, notablythe comprehensivecommission of Oyer and Terminer and the general commission of Gaol-delivery As "Justices of Assize and Gaoldelivery" they could, according to circumstances, proceed upon indictments for recusancy by either of these commissions, although in practice business of this kind seems to have been conducted normallyby virtue of the latter . 85 It should therefore be observed that sessions ofGaol-delivery were an integral part of the Assizes , and usually concluded the Assize proceedings in each county. Middlesex (with the City of London), however, was exceptional in that, alone of the counties, it had no Assizes. It was evidently in order to cover this situationthat the words "or Gaol-delivery" were inserted in the Act. Henceforth convictions for recusancyin Middlesex and London were recorded at the Sessions of General

83 Seep lii

84 Seep. xcviii

85 Theprimary and original objectofthis commissionwas to"deliver" (evacuate) the local gaols by bringing the prisoners detained therein to trial The charging of Justices of Gaol-delivery to "inquire of, hear and determine" recusancy offencesinwhich thevastmajority of offenders were notprisoners -indicates how broad had become the interpretation of its scope Cf. Hawkins, Pleas ofthe Crown , II, ch 6, §§ 5 and 19 .

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Gaol-delivery of Newgate, held at the Old Bailey, London , about eighttimes inthe year.8

The court of King's Bench, the supreme court ofcriminaljurisdiction, usually sat in Westminster Hall, but, like the other superior courts (including, occasionally, the Exchequer), was also "ambulatory" , that is to say, it accompanied the sovereign during her progresses By reason of its pre-eminence it could, in addition to exercising its own original jurisdiction, demandby the issue of the writ certiorari87the removal from an inferior court into King's Bench of any indictment presenting legal difficulties and proceed to judgment upon it. A cursory examination of"Ancient Indictments" and Controlment Rolls ofKing's Bench (preservedat the Public Record Office88) leaves the impression that all indictments for recusancy there dealt with were originally removed thitherfrom other courts.

The surviving records of the Assizes are likewise preserved at P.R.O., but only those of the South Eastern circuit contain indictments of the reign of Elizabeth . 89 Records of the Gaol-deliveries ofNewgateare in two series, separatelyhoused (a) Thosepertainingtothe countyof Middlesex are preserved at Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster (b) those pertainingto the City of London , at the Records Office of the Corporation of London, Moorgate, E.C. The former series, dating from 1549, is in process of being calendared90 recusant material in the latter (1605-85) is published in C.R.S.vol xxxiv.

3. The accumulative penalty (section III) One of the most importantfeatures of the presentAct is its explanation (in this and the 4th section) of the nature of the penalty imposed in §V ofthe statute of 1581.91 For the past five years the total obligation of the convicted recusant had been considered to be limited to the fines specified in his occasional indictments This theory is now claimed to have been a serious misinterpretation of the said enactment in reality his obligationwas far more extensive . The "true meaning" ofthat clause (now carefully stated) is that a single conviction is sufficient to involve the recusant in a continuous series of monthly fines of £20 until he shall have conformedregardless of later indictments and convictions . As a 17th century

86 Cf.C.R.S.XXXIV , Introd, pp. vii-x

87 Ibid .p. xxxix .

88 Class refs.: K.B.9 andK.B.29.

89 Class ref.: Assizes 35

90 Bound typescript volumes of this calendar , entitled Middlesex Sessions Records, may be seen at B.M. and P.R.O. Cf. also Middlesex County Records, editedbyJ. Cordy Jeaffreson (4 vols : 1892)

91 Supra, p. xiii.

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Exchequer official put it, "by this law the penalty of £20 a month runs on for ever after the first convictiontillconformity."92

The presentsection applies this principle (whichwe may describe as the "accumulative penalty")to recusants who had escaped itin the past. Its future application is ensured by section IV. See Comments 4 and 5 (c) below .

4. Pre1587 debts (section III). In makingthe above principle retrospective to 1581 the statute of 1586-7 laid upon the Exchequer an immediate task ofnolittlecomplexity, especiallywherea recusant had actually beenpaying his occasionalfines Therecords ofeach case had to be separatelyexamined ; no dossier was alike. Concentrating , for a start, on the most influential recusants and taking themonthofOctober 1586 as the terminusad quem oftheir calculations, the auditing staff now hastenedto ascertainthedates oftheir first convictions and the number of months for whichpayment had been omitted, or for which there had been no covering indictment and conviction, in this way establishing a fixed sum to be charged to each. These "pre-1587" arrears (as I have broadly termed them inthis work) amounted in some casesto over £1,000, and were, of course, an imposition additional to the charge of £26093 for recusancyduringthe current year (Michaelmas 1586-7)

It is not surprising, therefore, that the Exchequer Pipe Rolls indicate only eight recusants able, eventually, to settle both debts They were John Towneley of Enfield, Middlesex ;94 Ferdinand Parris of Pudding Norton, Norfolk; Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton, Northants .; George Cotton of Warblington, Hants. ; John Gage ofWest Farley, Sussex ; and the three Suffolkrecusants -Edward Rookwood of Euston, Edward Sulliard of Wetherden and Michael Hare of Bruisyard . 95 Each of them may be seen in the presentRecusant Roll still continuingto pay into the Exchequer his yearlyfine of £260, having by this timewith the exception of Treshampaid off his pre-1587 arrears. All, it should be added , availed themselves of the respite allowed in this section ofthe Act for the payment of the latter debts John Gage, for instance , whose arrears were found to amount to £1,140 out of a total debt

92Christopher Barnard, deputy to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in 1671quoted in C.R.S.VI, p 77.

93 By the Common Law a month contained twenty-eight days, thirteen such lunarmonthsconstitutinga year A recusant's yearlyfinethereforeamounted to £260

94Sic in Pipe Roll, E . 372/432, Adhuc ItemLondon'(Mich 28-29 Eliz.: 1586-7)

The record ofhis yearly payments of £260 is transferredfrom the London to the Lancs section in the Pipe Roll of 1589-90 (E. 372/435, Adhuc Item Lanc'), and thereafter he is described (underLancs ) simply as "JohnTowneley, esquire"-as in the present roll Therecan be no doubt that heisto be identifiedwiththe well-known recusant, John Towneleyof Towneley, Lancs

95See"Records of annualfines paid" , infra, pp. lxxxiv seq.

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of£1,280 (he had paid only £140 prior to October 1586), arranged with the Exchequer authorities to pay £140 at Michaelmas 1587 , £500 at Michaelmas 1588 and £500 at Michaelmas 1589 , his sureties being John and HenryGuldefordof Hampstead, esqs He carried out this program to the letter, duly fulfilling, moreover, at each of these dates, his additional yearly obligation of £260.96 In three years, therefore, the Exchequer obtained from him a total of £1,920

Naturally enough, the vast majority of recusants proved to be financially incapable of offering a settlement of their arrears In such cases steps were immediately taken to exact the debt from the issues oftheir lands and possessions seized in accordancewith the requirements ofsection IV ofthis Act. In this categorywere some persons ofhigh social standing, e.g. William, LordVauxof Harrowden, Northants., and Sir John Southworth of Samlesbury, Lancs. Vaux's debt amounted to £1,420, for the recovery ofwhichmostof his lands in four counties (Beds , Cambs , Lincs , and Northants). were seized on 28 September, 1587.97 Repetitions ofthe original enrolmentsofthese four seizures may be seeninthe presentRecusant Roll, 98 each bearing the distinctive formula " . .. who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,420 byvirtue of the Act [28 Eliz., cap 6]" peculiar to all entries of seizures for pre-1587 arrearsforty-eight other instancesofwhichwill befound inthis roll . 99

It is noticeable that no suchentrysurvivesin the case ofSir John Southworth . The reason is that, faced with the forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the value of £388 and the necessityoffinding a yearlyrent of£280-16-8 from lands seized for his unpaid arrears of£1,060, he was induced to conform, and, by letters patent dated 1 December 1587, obtained the Queen's pardon and the restoration ofhis property . 100 Suchcrushing debts could hardlyfailtoproduce

96PipeRolls, E. 372/432-4, Surrey/ Sussex . Subsequent Recusant Rolls prove that Gage continued his yearly payments until his death, the last payment being recorded at Michaelmas , 1598 (E. 377/6 ). By that time he had paid £4,980 for his recusancy Actually , his final payment was short by£20which the sheriff had orders (by the writ Diem clausit extremum ) to collect fromtheissuesofthe estate (cf. E. 377/7) Towneley , likewise, never faltered Whenhe diedin 1607 he hadpaid, in all, £6,800, andwas clear ofdebt

97 Pipe Roll, E. 372/433, underthese counties

98 Beds [2], Cambs [8], Lincs [2], Northants [2] The original Pipe Roll entry under Bedfordshireincluded the seizure of the manor of "Patenham" (? Pavenham). This was later relinquished , and the yearly rent reduced from £58-5-51 to £27-9-4

99 Cf. "Land-seizures for pre-1587 debts" , infra, p lxxix

100 The pardon cancelled £700 of his pre-1587 arrears A second pardon obtainedon 1 July 1592 ("by reason of his continuedconformity" , vouched for by the Archbishop of Canterbury) remitted the remainder of his arrears (£360). Southworth personally pleaded this pardon in the court of Exchequer on 27 May 1594. The facts of the case, and the text of the second pardon, are givenin L.T.R. , M.R., 35 Eliz , Easter term, Recorda (E. 368/471 , rot 4) See ref in C.R.S. XVIII, p 157, II 24 seq. His old debt (Lancs [81]) appears for the lasttime inthe Recusant Roll of 1596 (E. 377/5 , Adhuc ItemLancs'withthemarginal note C (? Conformavit)

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some collapses. Another notable convert to Anglicanism from the ranks of the "old brigade" of recusants was Robert Lovell of Beachamwell (see Norfolk, entry [33])101 who struggled on until 6 April, 1601, when at the Gaol -delivery sessions at Norwich he made his submission in open court, as required by the statute of 1581.102

In the present roll the only item illustrating in any detail the operation of this Act regarding pre-1587 debts is Northants [21], relating to the sum of £953-6-8 owed by Sir Thomas Tresham . 103 Subsequentrolls show that although experiencing great difficulty in settling his arrears Tresham never faltered in the payment of his annual fines for recusancy from 1587 to the end of Elizabeth's reign. He died on 11 September , 1605, his penalties under this Act having cost him £5,760.104

5. Significance of section IV. Part I of this section explains the wording of all "enrolments of estreated convictions" and "records of fines paid" (see "Key to the Abstracts" , under these headings). Part 2 provides the authority for all enrolments of lands and of goods seized after this date, and ofthe Exchequerprocedurethereon. Responsible, therefore, for the majority of entries in our document, the wholeofthis sectionis ofprimaryimportance. It is also outstanding as a measure calculated to expedite the legislation of 1581. Letus note some ofits featuresandimplications. (a) Part-payment of fines and payment by instalments are no longer tolerated When a conviction has been certified into the

101 This entryfollows closelythe form used in "estreated convictions" , and is here analysed assuch

102 Hepleaded hisconformity in the Court of Exchequer on 1 May 1602 , when all his debts were remitted Cf. L.T.R., M.R. referred to in the text (E. 368/503, rot 60)

103 The purport of this complicated entry (of which I have attempted a free translationin thetext) isthat Tresham, havingalreadypaid, beforethepresent Act, £306-13-4of his total debt of £1,260for recusancy between March 1581 andOct. 1586, had guaranteed to the Exchequer in 1587 , withLord Mordaunt and EdwardWatson as sureties, that he would settle the remaining£953-6-8 by a first payment of £353-6-8 at Michaelmas 1587 and by two further payments of £300 at Michaelmas 1588 and 1589. He achieved the first payment, but failed with regard to the other two. He thus owed £600a sum for which Farmor, sheriff of 1589 , was summoned to accountat the Exchequer The rest of the entry gives, in a postscript, the state of the debt as at Mich. 1594 (the end of the year covered by the present roll). First, certain belated payments amounting to £246-13-4 are noted, reducing the debt to £353-6-8 Secondly , since Tresham , Mordaunt andWatson had forfeited their bonds , certainlands belongingto themwere seized,to produce £80by 1593. On22 Nov. 1594 (the date ofthelastpaymenthereinrecorded), Tresham's debt therefore stood at £273-6-8. This was paid off within the next twelve monthsas his discharge, enrolled in the 6th RecusantRoll, records.

104Additional penalties incurred by him in connectionwith religion are given in M. E. Finch's study, Five Northamptonshire Families (Northants. Record Soc. , vol. xix, pp. 76, 179-81).

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Exchequer, proceedingsthere for seizure of propertymay begin as soonasfailuretopaythe requisite amount ofthe fineatthe stipulated time (i.e. by the end of the following Easter or Michaelmas term) has been ascertained Thus procedure was now greatly simplified. No longer was it necessary for the fines, as such, to belevied bythe sheriff . In effect , the recusant received an ultimatum: either he came forward at the proper time with the sum required or he lost his property. The decision lay with him, and his decision was indicated for Exchequer purposes by the presence or absence of a record of payment in the books of the Receipt department . 105 (b) The penalty incurred by a recusant who fails to pay the statutory fine, viz. confiscation of his property, is nowfor the first time officiallypromulgated The seizure of the goods and lands of a Crown debtor in order to recover the debt by sale of the former and by rentfrom the latter was an ancient procedure, and, as we have seen, had been in operation against recusants since 1581.106 Atfirst sight, therefore, it would seem that in this respectthepresent Act adds no new feature to normal Exchequer practice. There is, however, one innovation, namely, a definition of the amount of propertyto beseized. Hithertothis had been regulated bywhat,in the opinion of commissioners and jurors, the offender and his family needed for subsistence . 107 In the interests, no doubt, of "more speedyexecution" , such discretionary powers were nowfor the most part withdrawn and a uniform pattern established bythe statutory provision that henceforth, in every case, all the goods of the defaulting recusant and two-thirds of his real property were to beregarded as forfeit to the Crown Some latitudenevertheless was still officially approved in the actual seizure of goods. The Queen's entitlement to "all the goods "was never interpreted as "all the goods at once" . Common-sense itself dictated the advisabilityof impoverishing bydegrees. The rolls showthatinpractice onlya selection of recusant goods (sometimesquite small portions) weretaken at any one time. The procedure was twice or thrice repeated in cases of outstanding obstinacy. (c) Again the principle of the accumulative penalty (p. xxix) is emphasised this time with the added intention of giving permanence to the seizureof recusants' lands . 108 Undertheprevious Act lands had been seized in each case merely to recover a single specifieddebt,and a situationcould therefore arise when , payments

105Cf. "Levyingoffines abandoned , 1587" , infra, pp lx-lxii

108 Evidence of this is to be seen in references to writs of"extent" and"commission" notedagainst recusant items inthePipeRolls oftheperiod 1581-6

107Salvo contenemento ("savingthe livelihood") seems to have been the guiding principle. Sir GeoffreyGilbert , A Treatise on the Court ofExchequer (1758) p 164 .

108 Theintention ofmakingland-seizure, like fine-payment , normally terminable only by submissionand conformity is implied also in §VI, and is expressly stated in Act 3 James I, c 4, §8 in reference to the present statute. C

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having overtaken the amount of the debt, the lands were legally returnable to the recusant. New process would then have been needed, upon another conviction of the same person, in order to regain the lands for the Crown So untidy and laborious a procedure, in cases where recusancywas persistent, called for readjustment. The present Act removed the difficulty by applying a corollaryof the above principleto the effect thatjust as afterthe first conviction a recusant's fines run on until his submission and conformity, so may his lands, once seized, remain in the Queen's hands until that same event. A recusant's liabilities automatically increasing at the rate of £260 a year now provided an ample sufficiency of debt to guarantee suchuninterrupted retention ofthelands by the Crown . 109 Only two contingencies could in future break its continuance : a discharge following a legal flaw in the earlier proceedings, pleaded and allowed in the court of Exchequer, or an exercise of the royal prerogative granting away the Crown's interests to another person Both were of comparatively rare occurrence . 110 Thus the "accumulative penalty" principle, now put forth as the official interpretation ("the true meaning") of section V of the statute of 1581,111 is shown to be one ofthe most potent operative elements in the present legislation. It formed, indeed, an essentialfactor in the long-term penal scheme whichthe Government had in view .

Two further observations should be added First, that notwithstanding the all-sufficiency ofthe first conviction in the operation of this principle , a recusant continued to be repeatedly convicted and repeatedly enrolled at the Exchequer Enrolments of such reiterated convictions still had their official value they were a means of estimating the obstinacy of individual offenders; they afforded the Exchequer legal grounds for further seizures of goods, and above allenabled that courtto check upon and punish recidivists who , having submitted and conformed, later relapsedinto nonattendance at church Secondly, it should be noted thattheabove principle was held not to apply to convictions of recusants in "popular actions" upon the statute of 1581.112 Such suits by common informers could produce only single and isolated debts (d) The legislation in sections III and IV was not applicable to a recusant wife. Common Law gave the disposal of a woman's property to her husband, and he could not be made responsible for pecuniary penalties incurred by his wife by way ofindictment for breaches ofthe law to whichhe wasnot privy. 113 Consequently,

109 Thus my remark in Recusant History, IV, 183 (penultimate sentence) is, in fact, inapplicableto the situation after the statuteof 1586-7 .

110 Cf."Revocationofseizures" , infra, pp lxvii-viii

111 Supra, p xiii(quotedpassage).

113 Hawkins, op. cit , I, ch 10 , $42

113 Foster's case , 11 Co. Rep 56b, at p 61b (Coke, Reports (1826), VI, 117) Hawkins, I, ch. 10, §39. Jacob, Law Dictionary, "Baron and Feme" (vii).

although a wife might be indicted, convicted and fined for this offence(many examples ofthiswill be foundamong the "enrolments of estreated convictions" in the present volume), her forfeitures could never be exacted during her husband's life-time, the only penalty imposable in her case, up to 1593,114 being imprisonment by virtue of section XI of the statute of 1581. On the death of her husband, however, two-thirds of the widow's "free-bench" or dower became immediately liable to seizure, as prescribed in this Act, by reason of her previous convictions . The rental items of our document show some sixtywidows treated in this way . 115 (e) By the seizure of his lands a recusant lost to the Crown all rights attaching to their present "enjoyment" , that is to say, all profits, issues and rents accruing from them . He did not, however, forfeit the legal "estate" of his land (i.e. his title to it).116 Nor did he lose the power of disposition involved therein, althoughas we see in sectionsI and VIII of this Actthe practical value to the recusant of that power was severely restricted by the provisions regarding "fraudulent conveyances " An entail, at any rate, was in no way compromised bythe seizure, even though theheirhimself were a recusant.

6. The indictment for recusancy (section V(a)). Though inaugurating a simplified indictment for this offence, the present Act did not lay down any rigid precedent Some diversityofform still continued , notably in the concluding referenceto the statutes contravened.

The phrasing ofthe indictmentor official accusation of arecusant is itself of no little interest, since these documents are the instrumental cause of the penalties recorded throughout the Recusant Rolls. The following is an English rendering of the indictment for recusancy showing the form commonly used in the period 1587-1603117:

114 Cf. infra, "TheAct 35 Eliz , c.1, andrecusant wives" , pp. xlvi seq.

115 Where the woman's status is omitted (e.g. Essex [10] and [11]) we may thereforesafely assume her to have been either an unmarried heiress or a widow Positive anomalies , however , sometimes occur : for instance , in Devon [8], Dorset [4] and Lancs. [18] the recusant is described as "wife" . Such entries are explicable only as instances of women recently widowed whose conviction was enrolled before their husband's demise, or of downright error in their original indictment Error was certainly the case in Devon[8] :thecitedrecordofher plea ofconformity(L.T.R. , M.R. , E . 368/525 , rot 173) describes BridgetRoenot as a "wife" , but simplyas a "spinster"-a term signifying, at this date (1606) andin this context, an unmarried woman cf. p cii)

116 Tredwaye's case, Hobart 73, 74 : and summary

117 Until 1731 (4 Geo II, c 26) the language of most judicial documentswas Latin. Examples of Latin indictments for recusancythe form of which remained more or less constant throughout the 17th centurymay be seen in C.R.S.XXXIV .

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The jurors for the Queen presentthat [nameand style or occupation of offender], lately of the parish [name], who, being on [date] ofthe age of sixteen years and more did not repair to his [her] parish church nor to any other church, chapel or usual place of common prayer118 at any time within [period in months] next following the aforesaid [date], but has forborne the same from the aforesaid [date] for the space of the aforesaid [period in months], against the form of a certain statute in a like case made and provided at Westminster in the county of Middlesex in the first year of the reign of the said Lady now Queen for the uniformityofcommonprayer, and against theform ofa statute in a like case made andprovided in the twenty-thirdyear ofthe reign of the same Lady now Queen, and against the peace of the said Lady now Queen , her Crown and dignity. 119

In many examples of such indictments, however, particularlyin later reigns120the reference tothe statutesof 1559 and 1581 (italicised above) is replaced by the brief, indefinite phrase "against theform of the statute" (contra forman statuti)-a point of some historical consequence, as we shall see in the next note.

7. Indictment of non-Catholicsfor recusancy (section V) While the anti-Catholic tenor of the preamble to the statute of 1581on section V of whichthe indictment for recusancywas mainlyframed -gives, prima facie, a reason for assuming that all persons so chargedwere known or reputed Catholics, the silence of the indictment itself on the question of personal religious beliefs made it legally applicable to any kind of absentee from church. That it was in fact used against prominent "Separatists" before 1593 is well-established Thus the Pipe Roll of 29 Elizabeth records that the Nonconformist leaders, Nicholas Crane, "clerk" , Henry Barrowe, "gentleman" , and John Greenwood, "clerk" , (all said to be ofthe parish of St. Sepulchre, London, and therefore probably at thistime prisoners in Newgate) were together indicted , convicted and fined for a year's recusancyat the Old Bailey on 16 February, 1587/8121 incidentally affording useful evidence that recusants

118The phrase"at the time of divine service" , hitherto inserted at this point, was rendered unnecessary by this section of the Act (see Appendix). The words, however , continuedto be added for several years

119 A single indictment often included the names of many recusants (with a necessary adjustmentof the text)

120 E.g. London indictmentsfrom 1673. Cf. C.R.S.XXXIV, 155 seq.

121 Pipe Roll, E. 372/433, Adhuc Item London

Cf. D.N.B. , and F. J. Powicke, Henry Barrow, Separatist, p 21. The same roll also records, under Adhuc Item Norfolk, the conviction of "Henry Barrow , lately of Thornage ,Norfolk, gent " for recusancy of two months from 28 June 1588. Robert Browne , founder of the Brownists, was protected by his kinsman, Lord Treasurer Burghley, and apparentlyescapedconviction (D.N.B.)

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described in the Exchequer rolls as clerici were not exclusively Catholic priests . 122

In 1593 a special Act of Parliament (35 Eliz., c. 1) was passed against Sectarian recusants, with penalties ranging from imprisonment to exile or a felon's death . 123 Even after that date, however , they continued from time to time to be indicted on the old statutes of 1581 and 1586-7 This is vouched for by a remarkable (? early Jacobean) directive ofthe Judges ofEngland on the subject,wherein, nevertheless, it is clearly indicated that such involvement of Dissenters in the indictment for "popish recusancy" was regarded as abnormal and fortuitous It ran as follows : "If one that is a brownist or a separatist be indicted as a popish recusantthere isno avoiding it but by conformity, but if the indictment be general, contraformam statuti, the statute of 35 Elizabeth ordaineth several punishments for them".124 In other words, the indictment must stand, but the penalty shall differ according to the form of the indictment in which the Separatist chances to be included A reference tothe Act of23 Elizabeth (1581) occurring in hisindictment will involve him in the "popish" penalty of £20 a month until conformity, but ifit concludesmerely with the words contraformam statuti, the statute contravened is to be interpreted, in his case , as being that of 1593. One may add that since the penalties of the latter statute were not of a pecuniary nature, no reference to them will be found inthe RecusantRolls

The identificationof non-Catholics who thus incurred the penalties ofthe pre-1593 recusancystatutesremainsa subjectforresearch. It seems probable, however, that until the 1660s such cases constituted only a small fraction of the total number of convictions for this offence.125

8. Prosecution by indictment and proclamation (section V (b)). The ancient method of prosecution by indictmentis described in the introduction to C.R.S. vol. xxxiv.126 A distinguishing feature of its procedure was the grand jury's inquisition, which ensureda

122Pipe Rolls of the years 1582-6, especiallyunder London/Middx, Surrey/ Sussexand Lancs , givethe names of a score ofrecognisable priest-prisoners convictedfor refusal to attend the church of the parishes in which their gaols were situated These are likewise called clerici (occasionally, sacerdotes) The three recusant "clerks" mentioned in the present roll, viz Thomas Hutton (Lancs [21]), Edward Jackson(Norfolk [28]) and Thomas Collyer (Staffs [6]), await identification IfCatholics, they could onlyhave been survivors of the Marian clergy; certainly not "Jesuits or seminary priests" (ordained abroad after 29 June 1559), for whom the Act 27 Eliz, c 2 (1585) prescribed the deathpenalty

123Continued by Act of Parliament in 1597 ; revived in 1604 , modified in 1605 by 3 James I., c . 4 ; revived in 1627 and 1640(Charles I)

124Recusant History, IV , 193 (A (3))

125 Ibid , p 191. Cf. J. A. Williams, Bathand Rome (1963), pp 8-9

126 Undertitles"Recognisances" (p xxix), "Precepts andJury panels" (p xxxiv), and "Indictmentsfor recusancy" (p xlii).

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preliminaryexamination of the evidence before an accused person could beput ontrial. The grand jury's antecedentdeclaration thata charge was worthy, or unworthy , of the court's consideration as a "truebill" was an essentialpart ofthe judicial proceedings, and the absence of this feature in qui tam actionswherein the accused could be summoned to answer before a court of justice upon the allegation of a single informerwas, among lawyers, a subject of criticism against the latter system . 127

The initial move in proceedings by indictment might come from a member ofthe public Private persons could delate an offender to a magistrate or, during sessions, to the grand jury itself, but, unlike informers in "popular actions" , they did notprosecute, nor did theyreceive a statutoryreward. Their identity, occasionally of some historical interest, is preserved for us by the then common practice of inscribing the names of such witnesses on the dorse of indictments . 128 Their motives, in the indicting of recusants, were various:onerecallsthe zealofthe playwright,AnthonyMunday, and the cupidityofCharles Grimston129 However, as onemightexpect, the normal sources of information for offences of this sort were official in characternotably, constables and churchwardens , whose duties regarding the investigation of non-attendance at church probably began as early as 1559.130 Most of the detective work required was performed by these functionaries. But while the constable had standing orders to report cases of recusancy directly to Justices of the Peace, 131 the churchwarden's duty was , until 1605,132to certify such offenders onlyto the diocesan authorities This he was supposed to do twice a year, and always at the time of the archdeacon's visitation . 133 The transference of this data to the civil courts lay at the discretion ofthe bishop or archdeacon . No law bound them to take this step. Their practice seems to have been to use the possibilityof such action as a threat to those recusantswho showedresistanceto admonitions delivered in their own courts Having decided to take this course, the

127 Cf. Jacob, Law Dictionary, "Information" , §1.

128 C.R.S.XXXIV (text), passim

129 Ibid . , pp 33, 64, 71. Reference to the latter's designs on the lands of his neighbour, the Suffolk recusant Nicholas Timperley, is given inTimperleyof HintleshambyRyan and Redstone (1931), pp 61, 97an admirablestudy of a recusant family.

130 Cf.Act of Uniformity , 1 Eliz, c 2, §§ XXII andXXIII.

131 Jacob, op cit.; "Constable" .

132 By Act 3 James I, c 4, §§ IV, V, VI, presentment of recusants' names to the Sessions was made a statutory duty for both constables and churchwardens, who werenow allowed, for every ensuing conviction , areward of 40s .to be levied out ofthe offenders' goods andestates

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ecclesiastical authorities usually presented a certified list of the recusants en bloc to the grand jury at the beginning of the Assizes , whereuponthe facts in the presentment would be drawn up later in indictment form, generally on a single parchment . 134 Thesimilarity ofdates and periods ofrecusancyfrequentlyobservableinthecounty lists of"estreated convictions" throughoutthe present roll proves conclusively that the recusants there named had been originally certified to the Assizes in groups, and that their indictment had therefore been occasionednot by private informants , but by official presentment

Althoughthe functions ofthe grand jurywere thus retained under the present Act, the radical curtailment of the ancient procedure subsequent to indictment (see the quoted text) makes this section notable in legal history. Hitherto, as in all offences less than felony when the accused was at large, the writ venire facias ad respondendum had normally been issued to the sheriffto summon the indicted recusant into court for trial. 135 If this proved unavailing, a "distress" followed for the seizure of his goods and chattels,13 136 and finally a capias for his arrest ; the object ofthese processes being to ensure his arraignment, i.e. his presence at the bar of the court to answerthe charge and to hearjudgment With the increasing number of presentments, any full-scale prosecution of individual recusants along these lines would obviously have occupied too much official time Some means of shortening the course ofprosecution had to be found

It was to meet this situation that the present section ofthe Act prescribed a "new form of conviction"137 wherein adjudication playedno part,138 thus eliminatingthe necessity of arraignment and of all the above writs designed to achieve it. By this device an indicted recusant became automatically convicted if he failed to obey the summons delivered in a single proclamation bythe court

134 Of the many compound indictments shown in C.R.S. XXXIV, two bear endorsements proving the ecclesiastical source of the information upon whichtheywere based (pp. 55 and57)

135 Hawkins, op. cit., II, ch 27, §§ 9 and 10

136This procedure probably explains the five entries, Staffs [15]-[19] in the present roll, all of which relate to debts incurred prior to the 1587 Act Poker, Gretton, Collyer and Wade ("supposed recusants & fugitives") seem to have disobeyed the summons after theirfirst indictment for this offence Fitzherbert, in whose case the word "supposed" is omitted, had evidently been not only indicted but also convicted Cf. Morris, Troubles, III, p 23

137Hobart refers to this procedure as "thenewformofconviction, by indictment and proclamation" (Pie v.Lovell (1618), Hob 204,atp.205)

138 Hawkins, op cit , I, ch. 10, § 23

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139 His conviction derived not from a formal judgment of the court, but from the mere fact, officially recorded, of default of appearance after proclamation . 140 So free was the arm of the law under the newsystem thatit was nowpossiblefor the absentrecusant to incur the penalty while totally unaware of the proceedings against him, and to receive his first intimation thereof upon the arrival of the sheriff with a demand for the forfeiture involved . 141 This summary proceduretypical of the improvised penal legislation of the periodwas henceforth the norm in all prosecutions of recusants by indictment and was observed in criminal courtsthroughout the land. Trials by petit jury upon such indictmentsthus became rare events, invoked only by conformers anxious to establish their innocence or by recusantswho sought a discharge byreason ofsome defect in the earlier proceedings Theeffectiveness of the above legislation is demonstrated by the remarkable increasein the number of convictions certified into the Exchequer after the passingofthisAct.

9. Qui tam actions after 1587 (section V) The silence of the statute of 1586-7 onthe subject ofqui tam actions innowayimplied that the legislation regarding them in the Act 23 Eliz. , cap. 1 (1581) was abrogated According to Sir Edward Coke, "28 Elizabeth [the present statute] does not exclude an informer from suing qui tam on23 Elizabeth".142 Oneprovision ofthis statute, however , did in effect considerably curtail the activities of the informer, namely, the regulation in section II restricting the venue of recusant prosecutions to certain courts (see p xxiii) Here the negative

139 I can find no evidence that the proclamation was publicly displayedafter Sessions . The procedure and form of the proclamation of recusants (with which sessional business usually concluded) is described in a 17th century booklet of directions for Clerks of Assize as follows : "If the indictment against the recusants be found, then doth the Clerk of Assize cause the Cryer to make a proclamation, and then readingthe names and the Cryer repeatingthemwiththeir additions as theyare in theindictment, he concludes after the last name thus : You and everyone of you stand indicted at these Assizes for not comingto the church by the space of one month (or more, as itis laid in theindictment) ; yieldyour and every ofyour bodies to the sheriff ofthis county, so that he may have you and everyof you beforetheKing's Majesty'sJustices at the nextAssizes and General Gaol-deliveryto be holden for this county, or else you and every of you shall be convictedof recusancy accordingto theform of the statutein that case made and provided" . The Office ofthe Clerk ofAssize : together with theofficeofthe Clerk ofthePeace (2nd ed , London, 1682 : anonymous ), p 69

140 Cf. "Record of the default and conviction of William Roper" : C.R.S. XXXIV, p 164, no 15 (conclusion), and p 387

141 This was especially likely to occur when the indictment of a provincial recusantwas preferredin the London courts, by reason of his possession of a Town house The remedy for the recusant, in case of error, lay in an appeal Cf. the conviction of Nicholas Timperley in Ryan and Redstone , op cit, p 53, n. 1

142 Foster's case , 11Co. Rep.56b, atp. 60b(Reports(1826), VI, 114; andSummary)

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phrase "and not elsewhere" , in an otherwise affirmative Act, was interpreted by the Judges to make that regulation applicable not only to proceedings by indictment but also to proceedings by information, and they therefore ruled that in future prosecutions bythe latter method should likewise be confined to the courts of King's Bench, Assize or Gaol-delivery 143 Thus the Exchequer, for a period, was closed to common informers for actions ofthis kind

The evidence of the Exchequer Q.R. Agenda Books on the last point is interesting The occurrenceof an isolated information of the year 1589144 indicates that the Judges' resolution must have been promulgated at least two years after the passing oftheAct, butfromthat date the ban onthe court ofExchequer held good for eighteen years, no further qui tam actions against recusants being recorded until 1607.145 Thereafter, such cases were comparatively infrequent. At this time, especially during the period 1613-1616, informers were far more busily engaged in suing "church papists" who, having conformed to the extent offulfilling the legal obligation of church-attendance once a month, nevertheless "refrained from receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper"-anewoffence ,after 1605, created by the Act 3 James I, c 4, §§II and III.146

10. Inherited debts (section VI). Apart from the declaration in section IX (p. xxvii), this Act makes no referenceto the problem of howfar the lands of an heir should be chargeable withthe debts left by his die-hard recusant ancestor. The position was not statutorily clarified till 1604.147 However, since there is evidence in the present roll that the principles laid down in 1604 were in practice largely observed (presumably by direction of the Judges) at least ten years before their enactment, some mention of them will be required here.

(a) So long as the heir refused to conform , no waywas open to him offreeing his inheritance from the debts forrecusancyincurred by his ancestor A case in point is that of Walter and Henry Norton in this roll (Suffolk, entries [4], [21] and [23]), from which items we gather that the rent due to the Crown from two-thirds of

143 Ibid . , p. 61a (Reports (1826), VI, 115)

144 This was exhibitedin the court of Exchequer on 26 August, 31 Eliz. (1589), by the informer Edward Bodie of London, clothworker, against Gerard Johnson , a yeoman of Holme Cultram, Cumberland, who on 3 November following pleaded not guilty to the charge of recusancy, and demanded a trial. No further facts are given Q.R., M.R., Mich, 31 Eliz (E. 159/397 , rot 299)

145 Recommencing in Hilaryterm, 4 James I (1606/7).

146 The Q.R. AgendaBook for 1613-16 (Index 17065) shows 22 informations for recusancy, as against 252 for not receivingthe Sacrament (145 of which were laid in Michaelmasterm, 14 James I (1616)

147 Bythe Act 1 James I, c 4, §§III, IV, V.

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the lands of Walter, the deceased recusant owner, seized during his lifetime for the recovery of pre-1587 debts amounting to £820 , was continued after the succession of the son and heir, Henry, and that the continuance of this charge (in entry [21]) served as the punishment of the latter and his mother for their personal recusancy148

Hawkins , commenting on the Act 1 James I, c . 4 (1604), 149 suggests that in ascertaining the amount of such debts only the fineswhichhad been incurred forthe months ofrecusancymentioned in the ancestor's indictments were to be counted, notthose accumulating in the months subsequentto his conviction,150 "inasmuch as the former seem to be debts appearing of record, the latter not. " This, however, was certainly no hard and fast rule A different principle is seen at work, for instance, upon the death (in 1606) of Thomas MoreofLeyton, Essex 151 On that occasionthe Exchequer reckoned the obligationdevolving upon his heir as comprising the sum mentioned in his first indictment plus the accumulated debts of £20 a month thereafter, until the date of the seizure of his lands . 152 (b) If the heir were no recusant, or were so and conformed , he could, by plea heard and allowed in the court of Exchequer, discharge his land of all debts and penalties thereon, for as many lands as descended upon him. But any land not descendingupon the conformingheir, having been previously sold by his ancestor yet seized later by the Crown for the latter's recusancy153could not be discharged by the heir's conformity: the purchaser's rental obligationto the Crowncontinued till all the debts of £20 a month incurred bythesellerwere satisfied . 154

An early attempt to continue the charges on sold recusant land comes to light in the case of"HenryDrewrye of Lawshall, esquire, deceased" (Suffolk, [17] and [22]). This was thwarted in Hilary term 1595 by the purchasers, who are recorded in the Memoranda Roll citedatthe foot ofthe latterentryto have successfullypetitioned

148 Wherefore entries [4] and [23] were cancelled (see annotations), and do not reappear . Entry [21] alone continues in subsequent rolls.

149 Op. cit, I, ch 10, § 56

150Supra, p. xxix, "Theaccumulativepenalty" .

151And ofBarnbrough, Yorks (see Yorks [33] inthis roll).

152 This total debt (£500) was, upon examination, found to have been satisfied (indeed exceeded) by rent-payments obtainedfrom his seized lands before he died Cresacre More, the recusant heir, was thereforedeclared free ofall ancestral debts L.T.R., M.R., Hilary, 4 James I (1607) : (E . 368/526 , rot 181)

153 By virtue of §I of the present Act

154 Cf. Recusant History, IV p 195, (B.(2))

the Exchequerfor a discharge of all penalties by reason oferror in the originalindictmentand inquisition . 155

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1. Recusancy and the revenue , 1587-1603 Whatever the persuasiveeffect ofthe statute of1586-7 in the matterofconformity (it seems to have increasedthe number of"church papists" among the heads of recusant families), there certainly ensued a remarkable rise in the revenue from recusant forfeitures . The provisions in section II regarding payment of arrears, in particular, made 1589 and 1590 bumper years, with receipts respectively of £8,320 and £8,546over four times greater than the pre-1587 averageand helped to raise the averagelevel for the period 1587-1603to over £6,000 In the year of the present roll receipts amounted to £6,160.156 Especially noteworthy is the fact that the major part (£3,380) ofthis year's total wasderived from individualfinesof£260 paid by onlythirteen personsthe remainder (£2,780) being the sum of the receipts from less affluent recusants by way of rents and forfeited goods , in accordance with section IV of the Act This proportion in the two sources of revenue remained more or less constant for the rest ofthe reign.

Eight of these thirteen recusants have already been mentioned (p. xxx); the remaining five, whosefirst convictions occurred after 29 October, 1586, were Thomas Throgmorton of Weston Underwood, Bucks , Robert Aprice ofWashingley, Hunts, John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall, John Talbott of Grafton, Worcs , and John

155 The purchasers (Thomas Lovell, Anthony Browne and Anthony Drewrye) had a good case Producingthe relevantdocuments , they proved, first, that in any case the ancestor's one and only conviction (on 10 July 1588 : see C.R.S. XVIII, 319) was void, because he had died on 29 Jan. 1586/7six monthsbeforethe period of recusancy specified in his indictment; secondly , that byanindenturedated 1 Nov. 1587nearlyfouryears beforethe original seizure of the property by the Crown (see Suffolk [17])the landshad been soldto them by the son, Henry Drewrye, gent , and ThomasRolff, who at that time were seised of the estate, the conveyance beinglegallyconfirmedby fine levied at Michaelmas, 1588. These facts, they claimed, vitiated the inquisition on which the seizure was based. Attorney General Coke agreed, and the Exchequer barons discharged the estate of all penalties . Actually, after the above transaction, Henry had gone overseas and, in 1593, haddied at Antwerp, a Jesuit lay-brother (Foley, Records S.J., Collectanea I, p. 211 ; Caraman , John Gerard , p. 222) Itis evidentthat neither he , nor Rolff, nor any of the purchasers had previouslybeen convictedfor recusancy Had any such conviction appeared on record, Coke would never have allowed the caseto be wonwithout orderinga re-seizure ofthelands fromthenewowners As it was, subsequent rolls showthat the Crown had to be contenthenceforth with a rent of £10 p.a. from widow Elizabeth Drurye's lease of Lawshall manor(see Suffolk [15])

156See infra, p cxi Dietz's figures show that the total receipts from this source in the last 21 years of the reign (from 1583 inclus) amounted to £120,447a yearlyaverage of£5,735.

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Sayer of Worsall, N.R., Yorks . 157 All, with the exception ofSir Thomas Tresham, were "esquires"(armigeri)-menoflocal influence and, byElizabethan standards, ofconsiderablewealth.

2. Fines in relation to income . Although the comparative value of Elizabethan money cannot be accurately stated in terms of modern currency, 158 we are not thereby precluded from forming a rough estimate of the impact of the fines for recusancyuponthose who were convicted. This is made possible for us by Thomas Wilson's survey of late Tudor society, compiled in 1601 , which refers totheincomes ofthe various classes 159 Describing a society still predominantly feudal and rural in character, his observations regarding the lesser nobility and commonersthe groups chiefly represented in the Recusant Rolls160provide evidence useful for our purpose, which may be briefly summarised as follows:

Knightsabout 500 in number, "for the most part living betwixt £1,000 and £2,000yearly" .

Esquires ("gentlemen whose ancestors are or have been knights, or else they are the heirs and eldest of their houses"), in number about 16,000, have incomes up to £1,000 a year "about London and the counties adjoining" , but often of not more than £300 to £400 "northward and far off" .

Gentlemen (unnumbered). The general level and proportionate distribution of their income may be conjectured from the following figures regarding some 300 landed gentry in certain villages of Yorkshire and Norfolk viz. 20 persons with a yearly revenue of

157 Cf. "Recordsof annualfinespaid" , infra, pp lxxxiv seq . It shouldherebe remarkedthat by LettersPatent of 30 July, 2 James I (1604) each fine-paying recusant (they were then fifteen in number) was remitted the fines due for the 16 monthsfromthe late Queen's deathto the dateof the said document , i.e. a sumof £320. Cf. the individual items in Recusant Roll E. 377/12 ,and the MemorandaRolls therecited.

158 Before 1940 it was commonly reckoned that the purchasing-powerofTudor sterling was ten to fifteen times greater than that of modern money of the same denomination (A. L. Rowse in 1941 suggested a multiplier of 20 : Tudor Cornwall , p 143) Economic historians at present engaged in the complicatedstudyofearlyprices deny thevalidityofanysuch ratio, maintaining that since (amongother considerations ) the years 1520-1632 witnessed a phenomenal and continuous rise in prices of varying steepness according to commodity and localityno fixed standardfor comparison between the two periodsexists. Cf. E. V. Morgan, The Study of prices and the value of money (Helpsfor students of History, No. 53 : 1952). However, Wilson's figures(quotedbelow) give clear evidence of the scarcityof moneycirculating in ElizabethanEngland

159The Stateof England, 1600, edited by F. J. Fisher Camden (Third Series) Miscellany, vol xvi (1936), pp 12 , 19-20 , 23-4 .

160 UnderElizabeththe only convictedrecusant peer was William, LordVauxan exceptionally impecunious baron Cf. Godfrey Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden , p 219

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between£300 and £500,161 40 with 100 marks to £ 100, 50 with £30 to £50, 200 with 20 marks to £20 (A mark was worth 13s . 4d.)

Yeomen . Apart from about 80,000 freeholders "of meaner ability" , there are many ofthis non-armigerous class who, benefiting bythe acquisition of long leases [in a period of risingprices], have incomes of from £300 to £400, and greatly exceed in wealth the majority oftheir immediate social superiors . 162

Husbandmen and labourers. An unnumbered mass of cottagers, copyholders and tenants-at-will living on their lord's demesne; some fairly prosperous, the poorer sort "working by the day for meat and drink and some smallwages" .

In the light ofWilson'sstatementswhichwill be seen to accord well with the general implications of our roll (notablyin regard to the gentrywho , as a class, form the majority of recusantsactually incurringthe penalties)-we must therefore conclude that no recusantsbelowthe rankof"esquire" werecapableof paying £260 a year to avert the seizure of their possessions, and that the established monthlyfineof£20 was in itself meaningless as a pecuniary punishment unless it was in fact directed primarily at these leaders of resistance. Nor, moreover, judgingfrom his figures, do the assessments of income from land as given in the rental items ofthe roll appear excessivelylow, when we bear in mind that the latter are estimatesnot of gross issues but of the "clear yearly value" of the estates, all charges deducted,163 and that recusants maywell have belongedmostlyto the lower income levelsoftheirseveralclasses . 164 This, however, is not to claimfor the figures shown in theRecusant Rolls an overall accuracy. Many inquisitions were executed in a perfunctory manner there is also evidence of deliberate undervaluation for the benefit of prospective "farmers" of seized lands . 165 Such facts, indeed, seriously diminishthe statistical value of these official assessments as a whole

Of the recusants in England and Wales actually involved in forfeitures by Exchequer process (i.e. excluding those listed under

161Itis possible that Wilson atthis point (p. 12) actuallyrefers, underthe generic term "gentlemen" , to the "esquires" , and that the "younger brethren" of the latter (p. 24) are to be identified with the groups which here follow. These (doubtless the generosi of the Recusant Rolls) are said to be often unprovidedwith adequate inheritanceby their fathers, their lands beingmostly leasehold or purchased by themselves

162 According to Mildred Campbell, The English Yeoman under Elizabeth and early Stuarts (Yale Historical Publications : Studies, No. 14 , p 219), "the bettersort" of yeoman had in incomeof around £100 a year

163Therentscharged purport to represent in each case two-thirds oftherecusant's annualnetincomefrom his property, after all"reprises" (annuitiesand other charges upon the estate) had been deducted This "clear yearly value" (ultrareprisas) is sometimes explicitly referred to, e.g. Lincs [15]; Suffolk [21].

164 For instance , no clear examples occur in the roll of the "many" successful yeoman-speculators to whom Wilson devotes so muchattention.

165 Cf. "Crown leases" , infra, pp lxxv seq.

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the heading "Enrolments of estreated convictions") the present roll names 1 baron, 2 knights, and, approximately , 65 esquires , 120 gentlemen, 65 yeomen, 40 husbandmen, and 60 widows: another 90 are not given the addition of their rank. This makes a total of about450. Although later rolls add many hundreds to their number , they never formed more than a tinyfraction ofthe population.

3. The Act 35 Elizabeth, cap. I, and recusantwives. Ofthelater Elizabethan statutes touchingreligion none has left any traces in the Recusant Rolls . Some account must be given, however , of section X ofthe anti-Sectary Act of 1593 which, incidentally , spelt troublefor Catholic recusant wives and their husbands, and has an intriguinghistory of its own. The text 166 is as follows : "And for the more speedy levying and recovering, for and by the Queen's Majesty, of all and singular the pains, duties, forfeitures and payments which at any time hereafter shall accrue, grow or be payable by virtue of this Act, or of the Statute made in the three and twentieth year of her Majesty's reign [1581] concerning recusants, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every the said pains, duties, forfeitures and payments shall and may be recovered and levied to her Majesty's use by action of debt, bill, plaint, information or otherwise in any of the courts commonlycalled the King's Bench, Common Pleas or Exchequer, in such sort, and in all respects, as, by the ordinary course of the Common Laws of this realm, any other debt due by anysuch person in any other case should or may be recovered or levied, wherein no essoin, protectionor wager oflaw shall be admitted or allowed" .

One may reasonably wonder how the above passage can have any connection with the subject of recusant wives. Sir Edward Coke suppliesthe explanation in somedetail167

For several years it had been a matter of concern to the Judges thatno adequateremedy existedfor the Queen againstthe recusancy of wives, now grown "so dangerous to the State" . As we have seen (p. xxxiv (d)), a wife's penalties, incurred byway ofindictment, could not be recovered from her husband Moreover, although in qui tam actions this prohibition was theoretically absentCommon Law allowing an informer to sue husband and wife together for the recovery of the latter's debts, thus making the husband party to her penaltiesin practice this procedure had never yet been permitted, owing to the rooted opposition of Parliament, some of whose members had recusant wives . 168 The solution

166 Text and sectionalnumberingas in Statutes atLarge.

167 Foster's case , 11 Co. Rep 56b, at pp 61b-62b (Reports (1826), VI, 117-8) Cf. also Hawkins, op cit , I, ch 10, §§ 30 and 31

168 Neale, ElizabethIand her Parliaments , II(1581-1601), pp. 293-4

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now arrived at was for the Queen to assume, without restriction , the powers and methods hitherto pertaining only to the common informer, that is to say, that she should personally sue married couples in "popular actions" by means of informations exhibited in the courts through the agency of her Attorney General, and thus obtain for herself the whole penalty due from the wives . 169 "This" , says Coke, "was the chief intention" of the above clause. "Therefore" , he concludes, "many informations upon this statute [35 Eliz.] were exhibited for the Queen upon [the statute of] 23 Elizabeth in King's Bench etc., . . . to make husbands offemme covert recusantsto be charged at the suit of the Queenforthe said forfeitures oftheir wives" .

Needless to say, no open attack on the susceptibilities ofMembers in this mattercould have achieved its purpose. The clause needed to be veryskilfully draftedtechnically precise, yetobscureenough to arouse no suspicions regarding its implications The snare , it appears, was laid in the innocuous-looking phrase " .. . in such sort, and in all respects, as by the ordinary course of common Laws ofthis realmany other debt by anysuch person in anyother case should or may be recovered or levied . To the vast amusement, no doubt, of Judge Anderson (the contriver) and his colleagues, both Houses allowed these words to pass without amendment , thus involving themselves in the very situation they were anxious to avoid 170 Unawares, they had now rendered ordinary common law practice in popular actions for recusancy obligatory by statute and no longer capable of being countermanded No husband could now evade responsibility for the penalties of his recusant wife.

Informations of this sort, it will be noticed, were limited by the Act to the three superior courts at Westminster Of the records ofthese courtsI have searched only those of the Exchequer The latter show that pursuant to the above clause a bunch offifty-five informations was laid before the barons by Attorney General Egerton on 12 February, 1593/4 , suing married couplesin Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, in each case for the wife's penalty of £220 by reason of recusancy of eleven months' duration since the previous February . 171 Most of the accused bear recognisable Catholic names, thoughcertainly some (probablyall) of the husbands were at this time church-attenders. Three similarinformations , relating to Lancashire and Glamorganshire, were tabled by Coke himself (recently appointed Attorney

169 By a proviso in §XI ofthe present Act, the third part of the fine of£20 a month, allotted originally in 1581 to the poor, is to be distributed inaccordance with§VIIoftheStatuteof1586-7(see Appendix).

170 In ElizabethIand her Parliaments (loc. cit) theauthorwho appears to have overlooked Coke's explanatory commentsquotes the parliamentary diarist's references to this diverting episode.

171 Q.R., M.R., Hilary, 36 Eliz (E. 159/406, rotulets 71-99)

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General) in Michaelmas term of the same year 172 Theseform the sum total of such informations under Elizabeth in the court of Exchequer. After 1594 recorded cases ofthis kind cease to appear -having in a single year registered debts attributed to wifely recusancy (from actions in the Exchequer alone) amounting to £12,760,173

It is regrettable that the customary reticence of the Memoranda Rolls precludes our discovering the outcome ofthese prosecutions. That they gave rise to no little friction seems certain We learn, for instance , of quite a rumpus occurring over the Herefordshire cases. Eustace Whitney, the sheriff, having been served by the Exchequer with a venire facias to produce for interrogation the twenty-four couples concerned, answered that they were "not to be found in his bailiwick" ; wherefore he was amerced in £10 by the barons "for making a false return favouring the said several persons, and for openly breaking his shrieval oath".174

III. THE EXCHEQUER174a

Having examined the nature of the penalties for recusancy as established by Elizabethan statute law, we nowturn our attention to the Exchequer, wherein the levying ofthese penaltieswas directed and whencethe Recusant Rolls derive their origin.

An important point to notice at the outset is that in his original instructions to the sheriffsin 1582 Lord Treasurer Burghley expressly consigned all business concerning forfeitures for recusancy to the "ancient course" of the Exchequer.175 This medieval system of administration , despite the spread of Tudor innovations, 176 survived

172 Q.R., M.R., Mich , 36-7 Eliz (E. 159/407, rots 231-2v)

173 Thereuponcommon informers themselves began similarly to sue husbands and wives conjointly, in quitamactions(Q.R., M.R., Trinity, 37 Eliz (1595) : E. 159/409, rots 105-6, 224), but whether permissionfor this persisted has not yet been ascertained Revived by the Parliament of 1604, the above Act was continued(with modifications) in 1605 by 3 James I, c.4, §§ XXXXXXIV (S. atL.)

174 Q.R., M.R., Easter, 39 Eliz (1597): E. 159/412, rot 385. This certainly smacks of open rebellion, but whether it was connected in any way with Parliamentary resentment is not shown The subject deserves further investigation

1748Lat scaccarium : Old French, eschequier. Theterm derives fromthe black cloth marked with square divisions covering a table (10 ft x 5 ft), upon which,by means of counters , the Calculator displayed beforethe assembled officials the "casting" of sheriffs' accounts at Easter and Michaelmas The custom oflayinga chequered cloth on suchoccasions still survived inthe 1720s, but how long it continuedto be put to practical use is uncertain Cf. R. L. Poole, The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century , pp 100 seq.

175 The text ofthese instructionsis given infra, p lix

176 Cf.infra , p cvii, note438 .

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virtually unchangeduntil the 1630s, and is the subject ofthefollowing brief sketch . 177

The functions of the Exchequer were two-fold, financial and judicial As a financial organisation, it was the governmental department which received and had care of the public revenue of the Crown (its primary function), and was divided into two main sections, the "Exchequer of Account" or "Upper Exchequer" in which the general management and most of the secretarial work was performed, and the "Exchequer of Receipt" or "Lower Exchequer" which dealt with the actual receipt and disbursement of money and was therefore closely connected with the Treasury, the repository in whichbothmoney and archiveswerestored.

The principal officials were the Lord Treasurer, who was the presiding officer ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer or UnderTreasurer ; the Chief Baron and four puisne (minor) barons , auditors of accounts and judges of the Revenue Court ; two recorders and business supervisorsin the UpperExchequer, namely, the Queen's (King's) Remembrancer and the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer ; and the two Chamberlains, directors ofthe Lower Exchequer. Their principal local agents were the county sheriffs, whose period ofoffice corresponded to the Exchequer yearbeginning at Michaelmas.178 In their hands, chiefly, lay responsibility for the gathering of the revenue which was organised throughout on a county basis Twice a year each sheriff received a formal summons to make at the Exchequer the half-yearly "proffers" of revenuedue from his county. 179 On both occasions, the payments were followed by an examination of his account180after Easter , when the state ofthe account was "viewed" , and after Michaelmas , when itwas submitted for audit . 181

177Forfullertreatmentsee the article "Exchequer " in EncyclopaediaBritannica. Cf. also Guide to the Contents ofthe Public Record Office (1963), I, 45-8, and M. S. Giuseppi, Guide to the Public Records (1923), I, 71-6 Of the older works, Sir GeoffreyGilbert's A Treatise on the Court ofExchequer (1758) is particularly instructive

178Seethe Preambleto Bedfordshire(p lxx), translatedin text (p 1) Officially the Exchequeryear ran from 30 September (the "morrow" of Michaelmas) to 29 September (Michaelmas Day) inclusively. In practice, however , it closed at Martinmas (November 11th), this being the final return-day for writs issued during the precedingyear : note the lateness of the dates of second payments throughout the present roll, e.g. Essex [2], annotation Thus each fiscal"year" actually overlappedits successor by about sixweeks.

179 The summonses issued were known as (a) the Summons of the Green-waxto bring in "casual" debts imposedby local courts (fines, amercements and forfeited recognisances), and (b) the Summons of the Pipeto bring in the fixed or "certain" revenue (rents, and other dues arising from the ancient demesne of the Crown) Cf. infra, pp lix, lxiv.

180 Cf.Gilbert, op cit , pp 115, 146-57

181 Cf.M. H. Mills, Adventus Vicecomitum (English Historical Review, XXXVI, pp. 481-96 and XXXVIII, pp. 331-54), and W. A. Morris, The Medieval English Sheriff to 1300 , ch ix.

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The traditional method of transacting business in the Exchequer was extremely complicated, owing largely to the survival of precautionarymeasures taken in earlier centuries for the safeguarding of royal interests and the prevention of fraud. An elaborate system of counter-checking had been devised whereby each key member of the establishment worked under the surveillance ofa nominee ofthe King or ofthe Lord Chancellor, his personal adviser These representatives, gradually assuming specialised functions, had by this time become true Exchequer officials, but their duties and source of appointment often indicate the original purpose of their existence. Thus the activities of even the Treasurer himself were subject to the scrutiny of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (originally deputising for the Lord Chancellor), whose signature wasrequired on warrants and who had his own copies of the official rolls. It is a feature discernible in nearly all the divisions of Exchequer organisation, and accounts for the number and diversity ofits functionaries .

Financial business in the Upper Exchequerhad two"sides" , each under the management of a Remembrancer. Broadly speaking, the Queen's Remembrancer's side (Q.R. or K.R.) was responsible for the issuing of all initial process relating to the ascertainment of Crown dues and to the charging of sheriffs with their collection : theLord Treasurer's Remembrancer'sside (L.T.R.) issued all process connectedwith the actual recovery of such debts , afterthey had been inscribed in the Great (Pipe) Roll of the Exchequer Theformer maytherefore be said to have dealt with the preliminarystages, the latter with the final stages of the gathering of Crown revenue182 Since most items of revenuee.g recusant fines and rentsbecame due at regular half-yearly intervals, the rolls in which they were entered, viz the Pipe Rollsand theirlater supplements, the Recusant Rolls, were frequently needed for consultation by the Treasurer's Remembrancer . Hence the reason why these rollsfor whose factual contents both Remembrancers were responsiblewere regarded as belonging specially to the L.T.R. side Hence, also, the close connection betweenthe latter department and the Pipe Office wherein the said rolls were written

Nevertheless, the Pipe Officethe central drafting office of the Treasurerwas actually a separate department. Herein most of the routine clerical work of the Upper Exchequer was performed. At the head of a large staff was the Clerk of the Pipe who, as the Treasurer's scribe, was the official engrosserand custodian of both

182 From the 16thcenturythe K.R. side was responsible for the recordingand prosecutionof informations on penal statutes : Cf. Guide to the contents of the P.R.O. (hereinafterreferred to as "Guide (1963)"), I, pp 49, 62. This business the L.T.R. side did not touch unless, upon trial, a forfeiture was imposedbyjudgment of the Exchequer court and entered as a debt on the Pipe (or Recusant) Roll Cf. "Recusancy and the Common Informer" , supra, pp xv seq

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the Pipeand the RecusantRolls, 183 his scribal duties being delegated to a subordinate 184 His chief assistant was the Clerk of the Estreats . 185 Much of the secretarial work of the Pipe Office, however , seems to have been directed by another prominentofficial known as the Controller(Contrarotulator) ofthe Pipewho, inheriting thefunctions ofthe LordChancellor's scribe, issued forthe Treasurer's Remembrancer all the necessary writs to the sheriffs for the gathering of the revenue, in addition to being responsible for the engrossing and preservation of the counter-rolls on behalf of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . 186 As in the case of the Remembrancers, these principal officials ofthe Pipe Office were assistedby deputies , secondariesand numerous clerks.

The Exchequer of Receipt or Lower Exchequer was administered bythe Lord Treasurerand the two Chamberlains (the latteroriginally answerableto the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Privy Seal), but their duties were exercised by deputies The Treasurer was chiefly represented by the Clerk of the Pells, who was responsibleforthe recording ofall payments into and out ofthe Exchequer, 187 and by the Auditor of the Receipt, who supervised the ancient system of acknowledgment by tallyfor money received. The Treasurer also appointed the four Tellers who in the first instance received and counted all cash payments. Deputising for the Chamberlains were two "knights" whose duties included the weighing of the

183 His salaryatthis period amountedto £102-4-2 p.a.; viz. an official patent fee of£42-4-2 (2s 7d a day), plus an annual allowance of £60 for "drawing down into the Great Roll and chargingthe convictions, rentsand seizures of recusants"(Treasurywarrant Feb. 1591/2, S.P. 12/241, no 66; andcf. Tellers' Views of Payments and Issues, E. 403/2277) This "ancient allowance" of £60was still beingpaid in 1745fifty years after the closure ofthe Recusant Rolls (Calendar ofTreasuryBooksand Papers, 1689-1745).

184This is proved by thecontinuity ofthe handwriting ofthe rolls atthechanges of Clerkship, e.g. in 1596 , when Edward Stafford was appointed Clerk of thePipeon thedeathofSir JohnWolley (E.407/175, part 2).

185 His dutiesare referredto infra, pp. lviii-lxii

186 The Chancellor's series of counter-Recusant Rolls (E. 376/163) is very imperfect These rolls, non-existent for the period 1648-1673, are also mostly in too fragile a condition to allow of inspection They are by no means complete duplicates of the Pipe Office series (to which our present documentbelongs), beingdeficientin much of the information containedin the latter. For instance, E. 376/5, as comparedwiththePipe OfficeRecusant Roll E. 377/5, lacks an accountfor Walesand twelve of the Englishcounties, and omits estreats of conviction, Statements of sheriffs' arrears and most of the annotations

187The Pells of Receipt or Receipt Rolls contain the final enrolmentsof all payments into the Exchequer , copied from the original Tellers' Bills. Of similar authority and characterare the entries in the ReceiptBooks (Pells'), extantfor the period 1559-1834. The latter are much handier to use , and are of great value to the student of recusancy (cf. infra, p civ, note 419). The books ofAbbreviates of Receipts (1562-1642) give the same entriesin brieferform .

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money by which the Tellers' totals were checkedand thenotching of the wooden tallies to indicate the amount rendered.188 All disbursements out of the Treasury were the joint concern of the Clerkofthe Pellsandthe two knights (upon warrantofthe Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer), and all three held keys to the locks ofthe treasure chests .

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The Exchequer was also a court ofjustice , having two main divisions : the "Exchequer of Pleas" (a court of common law, which had also an equitable jurisdiction)189 and the Court of Revenue The first administered redress between subject and subject in actions bearing, theoretically at least, some relation to the collection of royal dues The Revenue Court, whichdealt with causes directly touching the revenues of the Crown, is of particularinterest to the student of recusancyin that ittookcognisance not only of informationsupon penal statutes but also of all pleas for the pardon and discharge of Crown debtors. Its regular judges were the barons of the Exchequer who sat daily duringthe law terms . 190 The two Remembrancers, or their deputies, always attended its sessions, each responsible for the registering, in his separate Memoranda Roll, of such proceedingsaffecting their respective spheresas were considered to require a permanent record The Q.R. Memoranda Rolls include the records of all informations against recusantsexhibited in this court : the L.T.R. Memoranda Rollsgive, inter alia, details of successful petitions for the dischargeof recusantdebtors and arefrequentlycited in annotationsto items in the present roll . 191 It should be observedthat the barons couldnot order final dischargeofthis kind withouttheassent of the Queen's Attorney General, whose duty it was to examine the legal aspects and documentary evidence in everycase . Site. The permanent abodeofthe Exchequer was atWestminster Hall, where it originally occupied the upper and lower floors of an annexe at the north-east cornerExchequer of Account above , Exchequer of Receipt below. After the 13th century, however , a complete separation of the two departments was effected by the removalof the "Upper" Exchequer of Account to new and more commodious premisesadjoining the opposite (north-west) corner of the Hall One of the approaches to this building was from within the Hall, by a flight of stone steps still to be seen on the right-hand

188 Forproceduresee infra, p lxvi, note252. Theuse oftallieswas abolished by an Act of 1783 (23 Geo III, c 82), but the order substituting for them indented check receipts did not come into operation until 1826 : Cf. Guide (1963), I,98

189 As a court ofequity it sat in a Chamberadjoining the main court room . In this same "Exchequer Chamber" the Judges of England assembled from time to time as a tribunal oferror and appeal on general questions oflaw . Cf. Recusant History, IV, p. 192.

190 The Law Terms are described on pp xxvii-viii

191Infra,p. cv

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side of the north entrance from New Palace Yard . 192 Here, on the upper floor of an extensive building (the site of which is now partlycoveredbythe Grand Committee Room) were, in Elizabethan times, the Baron's Chamber and Court Room, the offices of the Remembrancers and the Pipe Office The main repository and scriptoriumare thought to have occupied the ground floor . 193 At the time of the removal both storeys of the original north-east annexe were taken over by the "Lower" Exchequer of Receipt, the vacated upper floor now providing accommodation for the treasure chests and the offices of the Clerk ofthe Pells, the Auditor ofthe Receipt and the Tellers, 194 and the floors below being assigned to the Chamberlain's deputies for the preparation and storage of tallieswhence it cameto be knownas Tally Court.195

This general arrangement of premises appears to have been maintained until the beginning of last century, when by the Act 3 and4 William IV, cap. 99 (1833) the ancient Exchequeras a financial institutionwasclosed down Allits buildings have since disappeared.

A. THE PIPE ROLLS AND RECUSANT FORFEITURES

The annual Great Roll (Magnus Rotulus) or Pipe Roll of the Exchequer196 wasthe official register of sheriffs' accounts, settingforth under the various county titles the itemised revenues due to the Crown which it was the duty of the sheriff in each case to collect during his year of office. Every roll therefore contains the current chargeagainstthe individual sheriffs, with briefannotations showing

192 A sketchby J. Bryant, dated 1805 (B.M., Dept. of Prints and Drawings : portfolioxv/82) shows a two-storeyed erection (with attic) of considerable length, jutting at right angles from the west wall of the Hall at this corner onto ground now traversed by St. Margaret's Street At the westernendof this building was the Augmentation Office (ibid., xv/92).

193 Hubert Hall, Antiquitiesand Curiosities oftheExchequer (1891), p. 72 .

194 In Stow's day there was access to these officesand to the near-by office of the Chancellorof the Duchy of Lancasterfrom withinthe Hall, by a stairway similar to that on the oppositeside (John Stow, The Survey of London, 1598 No. 589, Everyman'sLibrary, p 417).

195 Hall (op. cit., pp 104 seq .) quotes an interesting description ofthe lay-out ofthe Exchequer in 1702from "TheBlack Book of the Exchequer " .

196 For details of the Pipe Rolls see Guide (1963), I, pp 76-8, and Giuseppi's Guide, I, pp 132-6 The use of the term "pipe" in this context was peculiar to the Exchequer, where it was applied in the early 14th century to a single membrane of a county account-roll Its significance is uncertain, but is thought to derivesimply from the natural tendency ofparchmentstoroll up into a tubular form(R.L. Poole, The Exchequer in theTwelfth Century(1912), p. 150) The Great Roll ofthe Exchequer (composed ofmany such "pipes") was referred to as "the Pipe" (la pipe) as early as 1348 (ibid.) ; whence , presumably , arose also the title of its writer, "the Clerk of the Pipe, " and of the summonses based upon its contents , "summonses of the Pipe" . "The Pipe" , signifying the office in which the rolls were written (e.g. Gilbert, op cit , p 72), is of later origin The metaphorical interpretation of the term, given by Sir Nicholas Bacon (Office of Alienations , 1598) and some 17th century writers, viz a "channel" of revenue into the reservoir of the royal treasury, has no historical foundation

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the measure oftheir achievement, and statementsofthe final audit oftheir arrears . Among the varied items enrolled were the fines imposed by local courts of law, and the profits of lands, tenements, goodsand chattels seized by the Crownfor statutoryoffences Of particular importance, therefore, to the students of recusancyare the eleven Pipe Rolls of the period 1581-1591 (23-33 Eliz.), which include the early fines and forfeitures of recusantsunder the two statutes of 1581 and 1586-7 described above. Increasing in number each year, these items are scattered amidst a host of other debts and their identificationrequires careful scrutiny. By the end of 1591 , however, it was apparently considered that recusancy business had becometoo great to incorporate withother matter in the Pipe Rolls, for in the roll ofthat year (33 Elizabeth : 1591-2) we find opposite each entry of seized recusant lands the marginal note ponatur in rotulo recusancium (let it be put in the roll of recusants)-our earliest intimation of a decision to transfer all outstanding recusantdebtsto a separate roll . 196a The"Recusant Roll" thus forecast, containing these marked items together with much new recusant material, appearedin the Michaelmas term next following, 197 and proved to be the first of a series in which all accounts relatingto this offencewere to be annually entered forthe next hundred years Actually, their inauguration was the culmination of a gradual but extensive re-organisation of the Exchequer system of dealing with recusancy As we shall see, sheriffs were in future to be required to account separately for dues arising from this sourceinvolving the construction of a separate Exannual Roll (p lxxxiv, n 333), and of distinctively"recusant" Schedules ofthe Pipe and Summonsesofthe Pipe (pp lxiii and lxiv), together with certain modifications in the method of procedure . 198 With regard to the launching of the Recusant Rolls, one might have expectedso considerable a change in the internal economy of the Exchequer to have received some notice in the official records, but I can find no such reference. The ultimate authority for the decision, however, obviously lay with the Lord Treasurer, and its timing may well have been dictated by the death ofthe Clerk of the Pipe, Thomas Morrison, and the appointment on 20 February 1591/2 ofSir John Wolley as his successor. 199

1968EarlierExchequerhistory shows several examples ofsuch separate enrolment of special accounts in like circumstances ; cf. Guide (1963), I, p 72, under "Enrolled Accounts (Pipe Office)"

197 34 Eliz (1592) Textpublishedin C.R.S. , vol.xviii

198 Cf. "Exchequer procedure relatingto recusancy" ,infra, pp. lviii seq .

199 Tellers' Views of Payments and Issues, Mich . 33-4 Eliz. (E. 403/2277 ; last entry in list of Exchequer officials) Wolley, who had been Latin Secretary of State, actually obtained his patent ad vitam on 8 March 1587/8, during theClerkship of ChristopherSmyth, Morrison's predecessor (Cal Pat Rolls, 30 Eliz., pars 17, f. 31). He died28 Feb. 1595/6.

B. THE RECUSANT ROLLS

Of late origin in respect of the history of recusancy, the Recusant Rollsthus entered the scene after the Exchequer had gained several years' experiencein dealing with this offence As sheriff's account rolls, having the same provenance as the Pipe Rolls, they form a series supplementary to the latter and reproduce many of their generalfeatures.

I. Description. Although normally less ample in content than theirparent rolls, theyprove, whenunrolled, to be similarlycomposed ofa number of fine parchment rotulets about five feet long and eighteeninches wide, strung together at the toptheir great length being contrived by the uniting, withthread, of two separate membranes . They are, therefore, actually rolled-up files. Every roll once had a wrapper of stout parchment attached to one of the rotulets, inscribed with the year of the roll and the title . . . pro Recusantibus, but many of those which have survived are now fragmentary. 200

The language of both series is abbreviated legal Latin, written transverselyon faceand dorseofthe rotulets in the distinctive script ofthe Pipe Office clerks Other internalcharacteristicscommon to both are the cumbrous titles marking the continuance of county accounts, 201 and the occasional irregularity of the alphabetical arrangement of the counties themselves . The latter was due to thefact that in a number of cases a sheriffwick had anciently comprised two contiguous counties which, in consequence , were juxtaposed in the Pipe Rolls 202 Actually, by 1575 , all exceptthe Cambs -Hunts and Surrey-Sussex combinations had been severed and provided with separate sheriffs. It is therefore astonishing to find that while, by 1592, the Elizabethan Pipe Rolls had, for the most part, rectified the alphabetical sequence of the counties, the new-born Recusant Rolls adopted and normally maintained the disorder ofearliertimes. 203

200 Theform ofthe inscription may be seeninthefollowing survivingexamples : (a) Rotulus xxxvi [tus] Regine Elizab[eth] (PipeRoll, E. 372/440 : Mich 36-7 Eliz .). (b) Rotulus xlii [dus] Regine Elizabeth] pro Recusan[tibus] (Recusant Roll, E. 377/9 : Mich 42-3 Eliz ). (c) Rotul[us] septim[us] Regis Jacobi pro Recusan[tibus] (Recusant Roll, E. 377/18 : Mich 7-8 Jac 1) Thus both series of rolls are numbered according to the "Exchequeryear" (see below) atthebeginningofwhichtheyappeared Cf. infra, p lvii, note211

201 E.g. EborItem EborAdhuc Item Ebor'Res[iduum]Ebor'(Yorks .Again Yorks . Yet again Yorks .TheRemainderof Yorks ) Cf. p cxiii,note460 . 202 These two-county sheriffwicks were Beds-Bucks, Cambs-Hunts, EssexHerts , Norfolk-Suffolk, Notts -Derbys, Oxfords-Berks, Salop-Staffs, Somerset -Dorset, Surrey-Sussex and Warwicks-Leics (P.R.O.: Lists and Indexes, No. IX) In the Recusant Rolls the order of the above combinations is usuallypreserved

303 In the present work the English counties have been rearranged in strictly alphabeticalorder, Wales (as in theoriginal) beingplacedattheend

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As in the Pipe Rolls, here also the accountsappertain to England and Wales only, those of Wales being gathered under the general title Wallia. One observes , however, that although the Pipe Rolls show town and city sheriffs accounting separately and with much the same frequency as county sheriffs, only those of London , York and Nottinghamappear in the Recusant Rolls of ElizabethLondon alone with regularity . 204 It is clear that the majority of these sheriffspassed theirrecusantcases to thesheriff ofthecounty 20 205

2. "Exchequer year" dating Another important similarity is thesystem used in datingthe rolls This system, whichthe Recusant Rolls and certain Wardrobe accounts alone share with the Pipe Rolls, 206 was based on the Exchequeraccounting yearMichaelmas to Michaelmas207and, in numbering the rolls ofa reign, reckoned the series to begin at the first Michaelmas occurring after the accession tothe throne. This is clearlyexplained(forthe Elizabethan series) in (a) the preamble to the first countyin the final Pipe Roll ofPhilip and Mary, where the period covered by that roll is stated to be" from Michaelmas in the 5th and 6th year ofPhilip and Mary [1558] till 17 November next following, on which day the Lady Mary died and the Lady Elizabeth began to reign, and from the same 17 November till the next following Michaelmas in the first year ofQueen Elizabeth, to wit, for one whole year .. " and (b) the first county preamble of the next Pipe Rollthe rotulus primus ofElizabeth209 whichdeclares its period to run" ... from Michaelmas in the firstyear ofQueenElizabeth till the same festival of Michaelmas in the second year of the same Queen . . . to wit, for one whole year ... " Opening, therefore, on 30 September (the morrow of Michaelmas) 1559, the first Pipe Roll of Elizabeth did not begin its course until over ten months after her accession , all business during those intervening months having been recorded in the last roll of her predecessors , which had opened only fortyeight daysbefore she came to thethrone.

208

It must consequently be borne in mind that in every Elizabethan Pipe and Recusant Roll the same discrepancy exists between the

204 With the exceptionof London, cities appear in the rolls under the letter C (civitas), corporatetownsunderV (villa)

205 Thus we find convictions of city recusants listed among the estreats of the county,e.g. Ann Price of Hereford City (Herefords [19] in this roll), and [ ] Phelphes of Bristol, under "Somerset" (C.R.S. , xviii, 294)-despite the fact that the sheriffs of both these cities normally accounted at the Exchequer

206 C. R. Cheney (Handbook of Dates for Students of English History, p 13 , note) is seemingly mistaken in including the Memoranda Rolls of thetwo Remembrancers

207 Cf. p xlix, note178

208 Pipe Roll, 5 and 6 Philip and Mary E. 372/404, Preamble to Bed'/Buck' (translation).

209 E. 372/405 (Mich 1559-60) (translation)

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Exchequer year and the regnal year210_a discrepancy which in this reign is exceptionally great. Thus the span of the present Recusant Roll is not from 17 November 1592 to 16 November 1593 (the 35th regnal year of Elizabeth), but from 30 September 1593 to 29 September 1594 (her 35th Exchequer year), and it is the latter year which is signified in the title Rotulus xxxytus pro Recusantibusgiven to this document in the Memoranda Rolls 211

Overlapping (in every reign but one212) a part of two regnal years, the Exchequer year, as a system of dating, is obviously capable of producing chronological puzzles for the unwaryfor instance, where cross-references occur betweenthese rolls and other Exchequer records, e.g. the terminal Memoranda Rolls of the Remembrancersand the records of the Exchequer of Receipt, in which the system was not employed It should therefore be emphasised that actually only the external "labelling" of the rolls is affected. Within the rolls, references to the Exchequer year are confined to the county Preambles 213 and to citations of other rolls of the same two series, 214 the dating of all other factsconvictions, seizures , leases, dischargesbeing in accord with normal regnal reckoning.215 To avoid confusion, the annus Domini has been widely added in square brackets throughoutthe textofthe presentbook

210Aregnalyearbegins on the dayof a sovereign's accession or its anniversary. "Regnaldating" is a chronologicalreckoningbyreference to theregnalyear, and has theform(e.g.) "1 Elizabeth" , "2 Elizabeth"etc.

211 A loose fragment of its original cover is preserved within the roll. The inscription (hardly decipherable ) appears to run : Rotulus xxxv[tus] Regine Elizabeth] pro Recusan[tibus] Cf. p.lv,note200 .

212 The reign of Henry IV began on 30 September (1399), and so coincided absolutelywith the Exchequeryear A useful table of the regnal and Exchequer years of English sovereigns is given in F. M. Powicke'sHandbookof British Chronology (1939)

213An examplefrom the present roll is given on p lxx These preambles are our main source for the dating system oftherolls

214E.g. the frequently occurring phrase Sicut continetur in Magno Rotulo de anno xxxiiicio refers to the Pipe Roll of the Exchequeryear beginningat Michaelmas 33 Eliz. (1591). When (in referring to later rolls) the term Magnois omitted, the roll cited will be the Recusant Roll ; e.g .... in rotulo xiimo Regis Jacobi . indicatesthe Recusant Roll of the 12th Exchequer yearofJames I : Mich 1614-15(cf. Monmouth [5], ElizabethGyles' estreat; annotation) It should be observed that rolls are thusalwaysreferred to by the regnal date of their inception

215 Dating by the CivilorLegalYear (beginningon 25 March) occurs but rarely in theserolls beforetheInterregnum, duringwhich it was officially substituted for regnal dating Under this system, the year, indicated by the Annus Domini, was oftenwritten in Romannumerals (e.g. Yorks [26], annotation"anno domini MDCXI") All dates, of course, are in accordance with the Old Style, i.e. 10 days behindthereckoningofthe GregorianCalendar, which, although observed abroadin the 16th century, was not adopted by England untilSeptember, 1752.

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C. EXCHEQUER PROCEDURE RELATING TO RECUSANCY

Afterthe statute of 1581 , proceedingsregarding a recusantconvicted by way ofindictment 216 opened with the arrival at the Exchequer of an"estreat" or"extract" outlining (in Latin) the facts contained in his indictment, including a statement of the fine involved 217 Such "estreated convictions" of recusants (amongst other estreats of fines and amercements) were sent into the office ofthe Treasurer's Remembrancer by the judges of local courts at the conclusion of their sessions, and werethence passed to the ClerkoftheEstreatsin the Pipe Office. 218

Early printed works on the general practice of the Exchequer are fairly numerous ; yet, so far as I can find, no contemporary detailed description ofits variant procedurein dealingwithrecusants was ever written In the following account an attempt is made to reconstruct the main features of the system from evidence offered by the Exchequer rolls themselves Use is also made of direct references to the subject occurring in warrants for the payment of Exchequer officials for recusancy business performed (four of whom drew special annual allowances for duties whichare therein briefly described), 219 and of an important set of Exchequer papers preserved among the Cecil MSS at Hatfield 220

The generalconclusion reachedafter a study oftheabove sources is that procedure was normal up to 1587, but that thereafter it was notablysimplified

Preliminary business : levying ofestreated fines (1581-1587). The available evidence leaves no doubt that although recusants' fines, from the start, received special attention, preliminary business regarding them was, until 1587, concerned solely withtheir collection as ordinary isolated debts,221 and that the usual lengthyprocedure, presided over bythe Clerkof the Estreatsin respectof such "casual" revenue, 222 was carried out This was as follows.

216 For Exchequerprocedure in qui tam actions see "Recusancy and the Common Informer" , supra, pp. xv-XX .

217 Cf. infra, pp xcvi-cii.

218 Gilbert, op cit , p. 85

219 Tellers' Views of Payments and Issues 1569-1608 (Guide (1963), I, p. 99). These unpaginated annual books, after 1581 (ref E. 403/2270-91), provide this evidencein Latinontheirfinal pages, underthe "Issues" ofthe four Tellers of the Exchequer The officials referred to were the Clerk of the Estreats, the Clerk of the Pipe, the Treasurer's Remembrancer and the Controller of the Pipe The original warrants were apparently written in English(see , for example, S.P. 12/241 , no 66).

220 Publishedin C.R.S. LIII, pp 11-14 . These pages list the earliestestreats ofrecusants'convictions, andend (p 14)with a report toBurghleyby"Southerton" (probably Noel Sotherton, Clerk of the Estreats, not the4th(Cursitor) Baron, JohnSotherton) describingtheproceedings takenin regard tothem

221 Cf.C.R.S.LIII, loc cit

222 Cf. Giuseppi's Guide, I, 135-6 ("Summons of the Green Wax") ; Gilbert, op cit., 129-33

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The said Clerk having re-written the estreated fines (including those ofrecusants) into "estreat rolls" relatingto each county, sent copies, in the following Hilary (or Trinity) term, to the respective sheriffs, together with a formal Summons (issued under a seal in green wax) charging them to levy the individual fines and to deliver the collected money with the summons into the Exchequer by the end ofthe next occuring Easter (or Michaelmas) term With the above "summons of the Green Wax" went out (after 1581) the following special injunction regarding recusants signed by the Treasurer, Burghley, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Walter Mildmay. It was engrossed by the Clerk of the Estreats and copies were issued to the separate sheriffs every year till 1587 223 .

" Where there are certeyn fynes extreated unto you(emongst other fynes and amerciaments) uppon certayn persons which refuse to come to Devine Service according to the statute in that case provided, These are to require you and in her Maties name to comand you, that you be very carfull and diligent to levye the same fynes to hir Maties use before Ester Terme nexte , so thatyoupayethe same into the Receipt ofThexchequierbefore thend of the sayd Terme with other farmes and debtes to be charged to you upon the viewe of your accompt, according to thancient order ofthe Courte of Thexchequier and, according to your Recognisaunce , acknowledge[d]to hir Maties use before the Barons of the same Courte, and hereof fayle not, as you will aunswere to the contrary at your Peryill From West'm xijth of Feb' 1582" 224

Having arrived in Easter term, each sheriff was examined ("apposed") in open court on his list offines, byan officerknownas the "Foreign Apposer" , 225 and all items (including recusant fines, separately grouped) were delivered to the Clerk of the Pipefor

223 This dutyis regularly mentionedin the warrant for his annualallowanceof of £20 ; e.g. "To Nowell Sotherton , clerk of the estreats, for his labour in estreating thefinesof recusants forfeited to theQueen during [theregnalyear ending Nov., 1583], and for writing from time to time, to each sheriff , the letter(litteras) signed by the Treasurer and Under Treasurer for the speedy collectionand answering thereof-£20" (Tellers' Views ... , E. 403/2270-74: Issues ofRobert Taylor, teller).

224 C.R.S.LIII, 14, where this documentisdescribed bySouthertonas"letters ... from the Right Hon the Lord Treasurer and Mr. Chancellor" Note that the letter is dated according to the "Historical Year" (beginning 1 January).

225So named because the accounts with which he dealt were of revenue arising not out of Chancery estreats (over which the Exchequer had an affinitive jurisdiction), but by way of estreats from other (local) courts, "foreign" (forinsecus) to the Exchequer Gilbert, op cit , p 132. Guide (1963), I, 69-70 .

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insertion in the Pipe Rollwherein such as had proved unproductive were bracketed with the note nichil (or nil) in the margin. 226

Two points should be noticed : (a) the estreats sent out from the Exchequer to the sheriffs in Hilary and Trinity terms, 1582 , were of convictions recorded as far back as the previous Summer Assizesand Lent Assizes respectively226a ; (b) the aboveproceedings in charge ofthe Clerk of the Estreats, spread over some six months , wereantecedentto business connectedwith the seizure of defaulters' property (involving another year's work), and to the issue of a secondsummonsto the sheriffs, called the "Summonsof the Pipe"227 , for the collection ofrents and other dues accruing from suchseizures (see below).

Levying of fines abandoned, 1587.228 That the preliminary Exchequer business described above was effectively ruled out by the statute of 1586-7 is clear from the fact that both the delivery of the estreats into the Exchequer by the Assize judges (§II) and the payment of the statedfines by the recusants(SIV) were required to take place in the same term, viz the Easter (or Michaelmas) term next following the date of conviction229 The Act thus allowed no timefor the above proceedingsto be performed.

The reasonforthiseliminationlies, of course , in the newmeaning now attached to recusant estreats Let us remind ourselves that bythis Act the fines were no longer regarded as isolated debts but as initiating for each convicted recusant a permanent state of indebtednessrequiringa regular half-yearly settlement, and that the first payment after conviction had to cover not merely the fine mentioned in the indictment but also£20 foreach monthofrecusancy occurring betweenthe date of conviction and the end of the next Easter (or Michaelmas) term.230 No recusant was now expected

228 The Clerk of the Pipe's duties (prior to 1587) are described thus : "To Thomas Morisonne esq. for transferring the debts [i.e. fines] of recusants from the Clerk of the Estreats, and writing them in the Great Roll, and in Schedules of the Pipe for the office (ad officium) ofthe Treasurer'sRemembrancer, in order thattheymay be more quickly levied by the sheriffs to Her Majesty's use For one year, £40 : Feb. 1584" . E. 403/2271 (Teller, Robert Taylor). Morrison at this time was actually a Secondary to the Clerk of the Pipe (Christopher Smyth). When (? in 1588) he succeeded to the Clerkship, he kept this work(by then much increased) and received £60 p.a. for itan allowance grantedto all later holders of the office

226aSee the dates of the sessionsgiven in C.R.S.LIII, 8-14 .

227 Gilbert, op cit., pp. 86, 96, 133

228 Cf. supra, p xxxii, (5a)

229 A glance atthe timing oftheAssizes (pp.21-3 above)willconfirmthefact that Easter and Michaelmasterms were actually the terms "next following" the Lent and Summer Assizes respectively It should be added that the vast majority of convictionsfor recusancy took place atthe Assizes .

330 Cf. supra, pp. xxix-xxx , xxxii(5a), xxxiii (5c)

to offer payment ofhis fines unless he could continue suchpayments thereafter at the rate of £260 a year 231 Recognising the impracticability of levying the fines except in the case of the very wealthy, this Act evidently viewed the estreats simplyas lists of defaulters so deeplyinvolved in debt that the system of dispossession and rentextraction might immediately begin and be assured ofuninterrupted continuance , 232

Signsofthe above-mentioned curtailment ofExchequerprocedure are not wanting in the records themselves . The "nichilling" of enrolled recusantfines(a sure indicationof"green wax" proceedings) disappearsfrom the Pipe Rolls : the Clerk of the Estreats ceases to send the Treasurer's "letter" to the sheriffs : the schedules produced by the Clerk of the Pipe have now a different purpose. It is, in fact, quite evident from their post-1587 warrants for payment233 that the duties ofthese two officials are no longer connected with the levying of fines but solely with the preparation of process for property-seizure (see below), to be issued by the Treasurer's

231 Apparently a recusant could signify his readiness in this respect at any time between his conviction and the assessment of his property Thus John Southcott'sfirst payment was not offered until ninemonths after hisconviction (Cf. E. 377/5 , Essex)

232 Cf. §§ II and IV By 1606 allfine-payment was positively discouragedas providing the rich with too easy a means of escaping punishment This attitude is exemplifiedin the statute 3 James I, c. 4, § 11 , which entitled the King to refuse thepaymentofthemonthly £20 fine and to enforcethe seizure of lands

233A statement oftheduties oftheformerofficerafter 1587 is given in E . 403/2278: "To Nowell Sotherton, Clerk of the Estreats, £20, for the writing of all records touching the forfeitures of recusants for the office of the Treasurer's Remembrancer , andfor continual laboursinthePipeOffice (Officio Pipe) in supervising the transcription of all debts of recusants in the saidrecordsinto the Great Pipe Roll (Magnum Rotulum Pipe ["pro Recusantibus " omitted]) in order that a more speedy executionmay ensue for the Queen's service in accordance with the statute [of 1586-7] in that part provided" . For the regnalyearending16 Nov., 1595 (teller, Robert Tailor) Comparethisstatementwith that in note 223, p lix

The post1587 duties oftheClerk ofthePipeare fullystated in E.403/2283 , asfollows : "To Edward Vaughan, deputyof Sir Edward Stafford, Clerk of the Pipe, in rewardfor his workin extractingthe debts of recusants from the record held by (penes) the Clerk ofthe Estreats and transcribing the same into the Schedule of the Pipe in the office of the Treasurer's Remembrancer , in order that commissions may issue thence into the various counties where such recusants exist, for the seizure into the Queen's hands oftheir lands , tenements, hereditaments , goods and chattels, accordingto an order decreed in the court of Exchequer by the Treasurer , Chancellorand Barons; also, upon the return of the ensuinginquisitions, for his estreating ofeveryitem therein contained into the Pipe Office [for insertion in the Recusant Roll] in order that levyingmay be performedby the sheriffs" . Two payments of £30, for theyearMich. 1598-9 (teller, Henry Killigrew)

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Remembrancerwho himself, incidentally, now begins to receive an annual allowance for much increasedrecusancybusiness 234

After 1587 , therefore, it was for the Remembrancer , not for the sheriffs , that the Clerk of the Estreats prepared his redactions of the newly-certified recusant convictions, and we may note that, in so doing, it was now necessary for him to redraft the contents of the original estreats to include the extra debts imposed by the statute235 an important task which was doubtless performed in consultation with that officer This done, our evidence indicates that he then, without delay, took his recast estreats to the Pipe Office and there personally supervisedthe copying of them into the Pipe (after 1591, the Recusant) Roll, afterwards depositing them with the Remembrancerfor his future reference. 236

These preliminary transactions concluded with the submitting of the enrolled estreats to the assembled court of Exchequer for its formal sanction to proceed, its approval being recorded by the note fiat commissio (let a commission be issued) which was thereupon added in the margin of the roll.

It seems probable that all the above work was completed by the end ofthesame Easter(or Michaelmas)term.

Property-seizure Thus authorised, and the recusants' debts being duly enrolled, the L.T.R. department could nowsetaboutthe issuing ofcommissionsfor the confiscation ofthe debtors' property, as required by the 1586-7 statute (§IV) The preparatory work involved was, indeed, not inconsiderable, but we usually find at this stage, evidence of much unnecessary procrastination . What the Act itself seems to have envisaged (§II) was immediate action

234 His dutiesaredescribed (E. 403/2278) as follows : "To John Osborne , esq., Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Exchequer , forwork in the writing and drawing up (conficiendo) of commissions for the debts of recusants fromthe records held by the Clerk ofthe Pipe andthe Clerk of the Estreats, in order that confiscation (confiscacio) of the goods and of two parts of the landsof the said recusants may be carried out ; also, upon return of the said commissions andinquisitions, for the enrolling thereof[in theMemorandaRoll]. " -Two paymentsof £20, fortheyearLadyday, 1595-6 (teller, Robert Tailor) In 1671 the L.T.R. was receiving £60 p.a. for this work (Cal. of Treasury Books, III, part 2, p. 1164)

235 Cf. infra, pp xcviii-ix

236 Supra, p. lxi, note 233 (Clerk of the Estreats). An untitled document, probably to be identified as a composite "Remembrancer's estreat roll of recusants" for the county of Essex, is at present mistakenly classified as Recusant Roll, E. 377/57 . Coveringthe period 29 Eliz .21 Charles I(15871645 only thefirsttwo items referto debts of an earlier date), it is basically a file ofgroupedrecusancy estreats corresponding , in contentand order , with those in the Essex sections of the consecutive Pipe and Recusant Rolls, and bears contemporary notes and interpolations apparently of L.T.R. origin. We seemthereforeto have evidence here that the lists annually drawn up by the Clerk of the Estreats for the L.T.R. were from the start inscribed in separate county files, and that similar files for other counties must once have existed . That this documentmay be a serial copy of consecutive Schedules ofthePipewould appear to be a less likelysuggestion

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in the term next following the enrolment of debts i.e. in Trinity (or Hilary) term 237 In practice, however, commissions appear neverto have been sent out until some seven months later, the delay being often much longer.

The "process for seizure" referred to in the Act (§§II and IV) consisted principally of letters-patent of commission. This comprehensivewrit was drawn up for the relevant counties bythe Treasurer's Remembrancer and issued by him, 238 under the Exchequer sealand withthe Treasurer's signature,239 to localpersons of standing nominated by the barons Bidding these "commissioners" investigate, assess and appraise, by the verdict of a jury empanelled by the sheriff, the possessions of each recusant named in the enrolled countyestreats , it empoweredthem, by virtueofthe Act, then and there formally to "take and seize into the Queen's hands" all his goods and two-thirds of his lands 240 To it was annexeda copy or "schedule" of the said estreats, supplied by the Clerk of the Pipe241 , and both documents were delivered to the sheriff he having been assigned, by preceptsof "attendance" and venire facias to take charge of all local arrangements. After the commissioners and jurors had fulfilled their duties, the writ of commission, together with a signed and sealed statement of the various verdicts and of the particular seizures executed, were returned to the Exchequer. The return was due duringthe course ofthe next Easter (or Michaelmas) term, and a record oftheabove proceedings was then made in the L.T.R. Memoranda Roll. 242 The time elapsing between the enrollingof an estreatand the return ofthe respectiverecord of seizure was therefore at least one year

237Exchequerwritswere normally issued only in these two terms

238 Supra, p. lxii, note234 .

239 Not"awarded out of Chancery" , as wrongly stated in Recusant History, IV, 187. That these were Exchequer commissions is clear from the phrase Commissio ... extra hanc Curiamemanavit always used in theL.T.R. , MemorandaRolls, when recordingtheir issue (e.g. E. 368/494, rot 38) Nor does the Lord Keeperappear to have been concerned in the nomination of such commissioners , but the Exchequer authorities only.

240 The object of this commissionwas to establish , by an "inquest of office" , the Queen's title to the property, and to vest in her the possession ofthe goods and lands (Jacob , Law Dictionary, "Office found" : and see supra, p. xxxv, section (e)). Such commissions are to be distinguishedfrom"commissions for leases" , which were issued whenever lands, so seized , were let by theCrown to applicant"farmers"-the aim thenbeingto carryout a detailed, up-to-date re-assessment of the property, with legal safeguards Procedure regardingthe latter is referredto under"Crown Leases" (infra, pp lxxv seq)

241 This was called the "Schedule of the Pipe" cf. supra, p lxi, note 233 (Clerk of thePipe)

242 The form of these commissions may be seen in items under Commissiones in the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls (e.g. E. 368/546, rot. 11). The general proceedings outlined above are often described in items in the Recorda section of the same rolls (e.g. E. 368/494, rot 38)-to which the Recusant Rolls make frequent reference .

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Enrolment of seizures Further clerical work, however , was needful in the Pipe Office before the rents and other debts due from the above seizures could be levied for the Crown Not only had the sourceand amount ofsuchpotential revenueto beregistered in the account roll ; each debt had also to be specifically and formally charged to the sheriff, the official collector First, then , details of the lands seized from each recusant, with the rentdue , were entered as separateitems under their counties in the Pipe (or Recusant) Roll243 henceforth to be repeated in every subsequent roll as sources of annual rent "so long as the property remained in the Queen's hands" . 244 Entries were likewise made of the seized goods and chattels, stating their price or valuewhichin each case constituted thepecuniary debt . 245

With regard to the second requirementthe "charging" of the sheriff it is noteworthythat when enrolling(or re-enrolling) these items the engrosserinvariablyleft a space in the entryfor the later insertion of the key word debet (owes). This practice, clearly discernible in the rolls, suggests the existence of a Pipe Office regulation forbidding any sum to be recorded as a debt until the currentsheriffhad been made officiallyresponsible for the levying ofit. 246 Such responsibility was imposed at the commencementof his year ofoffice by thefollowing process.

The Summons of the Pipe. In Hilary term a writ bearing this title wasissued bythe Controllerofthe Pipeto eachnewly-appointed sheriff, in which were listed the enrolled rents and other items of revenue accruing from the property of recusants of the county seized in the time of his predecessors These it placed on charge to him , ordering him to collect and pay the stated sums into the Exchequer in the ensuing Easter term, and to bring withhim the Summons itself for the insertion therein of any new items that had been entered in the roll during the interval In the following term (Trinity) the same document was re-delivered to him (now incorporating also a special precept offieri facias for his levying of recusants' newly-forfeited goods) with similar orders regarding these latest accessions and their payment at Michaelmas, when its final return was demanded. Always an important administrative instrument in Exchequer dealings with sheriffs, this writ appearsto have had, after 1587 , an abnormallywide scope in matters relating to recusancy. Thenceforth special Summonses of the Pipe were

243 Either intheroll ofthe same Exchequer year astheseizure (e.g. Cornwall [8]), or in the roll of thefollowing year(e.g. Cambs [5])depending onthe date of that event.

844 Cf. p. lxxviii (section H(c) of thequoted lease).

945 Cf.p lxxxii

246 Cf.p. xcix

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issued for recusant debts 247for the writing of which the Controller drew an annual allowance of£20.248 Payments We may here remarkthat although a debtor could , if he wished, settle his account with the Exchequer in person at Westminster, the normal practice, especially in distant counties, was to deliver the money either to the sheriff's bailiff (the actual collector) or to the receiver at the local Shire House,249 where sheriff's tallies were issued in receipt. Revenue so gathered was conveyed to Westminster at Easter and Michaelmas usually by the sheriff's receiver, acting as his deputy,250 and was paid by him into the Tellers' office in the Lower Exchequer, the Clerk of the Pellsrecording eachseparate suminhis Receipt Book251 Procedure regarding the preparation and delivery of Exchequer tallies is

247Variously self-styled Summoniciones de Pipa or Summoniciones Recusancium , and always referring to the "rents and other debts of recusants" , a few surviving examples may be seen at P.R.O. (E. 370 ; Bundles 118 and 119) These are mainly for Yorks , and of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean date, the earliest being dated "41 Eliz " (1599) Since they do not include estreated recusant fines, but relate to debts accruing from property already seized in default of fine-payment (albeit the yearly dues from regular finepayingrecusants are included), we may safely followGilbert (op cit , p. 133) in describing them as truly summonses "of the Pipe"-not "ofthe greenwax" . Reference must here be made to the original "Recusant Summons of the Pipe" ofSir Timothy Hutton, sheriff of Yorkshire, 3-4 James I (1605-6), preserved amongtheHutton MSS attheCounty RecordOffice, Northallerton, Yorks (Accession ZAZ) Seemingly obtained from the Exchequer after Hutton's discharge , thisintactandhighlyinstructive documentis a parchmentboundbook entitledLiber Summonicionis pipe Recusancium in onere Timothei Hutton militis vicecomitis Ebor' , containing over 270 items , with copious annotations in various hands We may add that at the conclusion of his audit, Hutton, whose year's work on Yorkshire recusants was veryextensive, alsoobtainedfrom the Exchequer a parchmentcopysplendidly engrossedof his official Quietus, the original of which forms the "Statement" of his arrears enrolled in Recusant Roll, E. 377/14 , Item Adhuc Item 5 Res' Ebor' This copy is now in the same collection I thank Fr.HughAveling, O.S.B. , for callingmyattention to these important documents

248 After 1592 this was increased to£40forthe additional workofengrossing the Chancellor's series of counter-Recusant Rolls which first appeared in that year (see p. li, n . 186). Thephrasingof his 1595warrant for payment, asgiven in E. 403/2278, is as follows : "To Francis Guilpin, Controller ofthe Pipe, for his work in writing the debts of Recusants in the Great Roll in the style used in the Pipe Office (characteribus in Officio Pipe usitatis), and also [for writing] the Summonses of the Pipe ; in accordance with an order and decree tothateffect made in the Exchequer by the Lord Treasurer ofEngland, the Chancellorand Barons of the Exchequer " (Two half-paymentsof £20 : teller, Richard Stonley)

249 Eachsheriffhad his ownlocal "exchequer" , of whichthe"Receiver" was the principal functionary Cf. The Medieval Shire House , an essay by Miss M.H.Millsin"Studies presented to Sir HilaryJenkinson" (1957), pp 264-71

250The sheriff appears to have rarely visited the Exchequer in person, being represented thereusuallybyan officially approvedattorney

251 Cf. p. civ, note419

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described in the new (1963) official Guide 252 These played an important part in the final auditing of accounts (see below), when theywere compared with theircounterparts from the Chamberlains' office and provided the evidence upon which individual items were formally discharged in the Pipe or Recusant Roll The note of discharge(Et QuietusEst) constituted in each case the officialannual acquittance not only of the debtor mentioned in the item but also of the sheriffto whose charge the collection of the sum had been committed. 253

Audit ofsheriffs' accounts . Withthe terminationofthe Exchequer year came the final business of auditingthe sheriffs' accounts For this purpose each sheriff was appointed a special date (dies datus) within the next nine months, when he was called upon to present in person, before a full assembly of the court of Exchequer, a preparedaccount (compotus) of hisyear's workforexamination 254 his recusancydues, after 1592, being treated as a separateaccount.

Proceedings began with a detailed investigation carried out by the Cursitor Baron and an associate auditor, 255 when every item in the account was checked with those listed in his Summons , tallies for payments examined, warrants for allowances produced and debts still outstanding noted. A statement wasthen drawn up and laid before the barons, whereupon brief notes of the court's instructions were added to the Summons against the relevant entries Finally, a record of the auditwith particular reference to the allowances and discharges grantedwas enrolled among

252 I, p. 98. "When [as in Elizabethantimes] money was paid into the Exchequer at the office of the tellers, the amount was entered in a book and transcribedon a slip of parchment(the "Tellers' Bill"), which was dropped down a pipe into the Tally Court, where a tally was "struck" or "levied" . Notches indicating the sum specified in the Tellers' Bill were cut on a stick , which, after other details had been written on two sides ofit, was split lengthwisethrough the notches. One part was given to the party making the payment, and, when itwas producedin his discharge attheExchequer ofAccount, was comparedwiththeother, which was kept by theChamberlains" .

253It should be pointed out that such annotationswere sometimes entered not in the current roll but underre-enrolmentsof the same items in rolls one or two years later than the date of payment The only straightforward sources for thestudyof payments are the records of theClerk ofthe Pells

254Thevariousdates allotted to the sheriffs of1593-4are set out atthebeginning of the L.T.R., M.R. of Michaelmasterm, 36 Eliz (E. 368/477), under the title Dies dati vic[ecomitibus] ad computand[um] post profra termino Sancti MichaelisAnno regnitricesimo sexto RegineElizabeth , andfallwithintheperiod extendingfrom the "morrow of Michaelmas" 1594 to the weekfollowing "the quindeneof Easter" (Easter Monday fortnight) 1595. The individual countiesappear to have been giventhe same dateeveryyear.

255 Fanshawe , ThePracticeofthe Exchequer Court (1658), 34 ; Gilbert, op cit, 115, 148 , I describe here the procedure of dealingwith the sheriff's general account: presumablyhisrecusant accountwas treated inmuchthesameway.

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the Memoranda of the two Remembrancers,256 and the originals were passed totheClerkofthe Pipe, who could nowproceed tothe minuting of the county account in the Recusant Roll (i.e. the inscribing of the annotations of payment and discharge) and the transferring thereto from the Summons of such other notes as affected the responsibility ofthe sheriff.

Among the latter, the commonest and, procedurally , the most important was the marginal note O or Oni 257 This was written when the sheriff, having hithertofailed to collect a debt, was given a respite (respectus) during which period he undertook("charged himself") either to exactitor to produce some reasonforexoneration satisfactory to the court. 258 "Onied" items, therefore, were such aswere still unaccounted for by the sheriff at the completion of his year of office . Thesewere nowgrouped in a special entry to form a compendium of his residuary account (see "Statement ofsheriffs' arrears" , pp. lxxxvii seq.), andthereafterreceivedthe full attentionof the Exchequer auditors. In the annotations subsequently added thereto we have our guide to the eventual winding-up ofthe year's account and the sheriff's final acquittance.

Revocation of seizures. We conclude this section with a note on proceedings which could, in any term, bring all the business describedabove to an abrupt and final close.

After seizure by the Crown, there was, indeed, no wayoffreeing the property except by a plea heard and allowed by the barons in the court of Exchequer, but, provided the statutory conditions were fulfilled, dischargeofthe petitioner (and ofthe sheriff) was then immediate and automatic . The grounds for a favourable judgment in such suits we may summarise as follows (a) Submission and conformity of the recusant (b) Submission and conformity of the heir upon the death of an unsubmissive recusant. Satisfactory evidence in either category could obtain for the petitioner the cessation of all obligations and restoration of the landswith certain reservations in the latter case 259 (c) Proved legal error or

256 Cf. Memoranda Rolls, under headings Precepta super compotos and Visus et Status Compotorum It is noteworthy that in these sections the recusant account is given no separate enrolment Recusant items , however, are occasionallyincluded in the sheriff'sgeneral account See infra, p lxxxvii, note 344

257An abbreviation of oneraturnisi [habeat sufficientem exonerationem]"He (the sheriff) is charged , unless (he can showsufficientcauseforexoneration)". Cf. Giuseppi's Guide, I, 135 ; Gilbert, op cit , 149-50 . Many instances of such conditional charging occur in the margin of the present document , e.g. Berks [3]. Not infrequently the words de anno are added The note oni de anno limits the chargeto the rent due for the current year, ignoring the arrears .

258 The various ways in which sheriffs discharged their recusant arrears are referred to on pp lxxxix-xc

259 Cf. "Inherited debts" , supra, pp xli-iii

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insufficiency in the original proceedings. Pleas of this kind appear to have been rare 260 (d) An outright grant of seized recusant lands by the Crown to another person 261 Evidence to this effect presented by the grantee likewise resulted in the immediate disappearance of the itemfrom therolls

Particulars of these cases are recorded only in the Memoranda Rolls ofthe L.T.R., but references to them are always to be found in the Recusant Rolls.262

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Having, in 1592, transferred all recusant debts from the Pipe Rolls to the first Recusant Roll, the Exchequer completed, in this secondroll, the segregation of recusant business byaddingrecorded audits of the arrears of individual sheriffs. Thus constituted asa register of sheriffs' accounts, the Recusant Roll now attained its full functional status as the "Great Roll of Recusants" 263 It is consequently worthy of note that the first Recusant Rollis actually transitionalin character, and that in the present document we may claim to have the true prototype of the series Moreover , since all the various classes of entry which appear in subsequent rolls ofthe Elizabethan period are herein represented,264 the analysis of its contents given in the following pages and in the "Key to the Abstracts" (p. cxv) is applicable also to the remaining rolls ofthe reign.

The MS consists oftwenty-seven rotulets, the averagenumberfor the next fiveyears not until 1599265 do the rolls begin to receivequite suddenly their later normal quota of 40-50 rotulets. It bears no general title. The text begins immediately with the account for Bedfordshire. All the English counties are mentioned

260 An exampleis referredto on p xcv, note 376. Normally such pleas were disallowedunless accompanied by evidence of conformity

261Thispractice, whichbegan in the 1580s (see Draycote'scase, infra, pp lxxxvi-vii) andwascommoninthenextreignup to 1611 (cf.S.P. 14/80, no 69), necessarily severed all Exchequer interest in the lands in favour of the petitioner (the grantee). Noconformity on thepart ofthe recusant was, of course, involved

262 Seefurtherremarkson this subjectonp cv .

263 MagnusRotulus Recusanciuma title appearingin L.T.R., M.R. Mich, 36Eliz. (E. 368/477 : Process touching Sir Walter Covert, sheriff of Surrey/Sussex) This distinctive title, however , was by no means universally used . In the recordsofthe Exchequer of Receipt, for instance , the generic title Magnus Rotulus Pipe is regularly applied to both Pipe and Recusant Rolls indiscriminately.

264 Withthe single exceptionof "Ex-sheriffs' debts" (infra, pp.xciv-vi).

265 E. 377/8in which (under various counties) are enrolled hundredsof new convictionscertifiedfromthe Assizes of Summer1599 and Lent 1600 .

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except Cumberland (a rare omission), Hertfordshire 266 and Northumberland,267 but the proportion of Welsh counties included is considerably less 268 The amount of recusant business involved will be seen to vary greatly in different countiesfromthe massive accounts of Lancashire and Yorkshireto the single items recorded under Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire . Regarding the Palatinates and Wales, see pp cvi-ix Further details are given under "Statistics and General Observations" (pp. cix seq.).

A. CLASSIFICATION OF ENTRIES

The entries occurring in the Elizabethan Recusant Rolls may be classified under eight headings Of these the most significant for the student of recusancy are "Enrolments ofestreatedconvictions" , "Records offines paid" , "Rentals ofseized lands" and "Seizures of goods and chattels"-in that they link the rolls immediately with the provisions ofthe statute of 1586-7,269the last three indicatingthe actual sources ofrevenue. Theremaining four, namely, "Preambles" , "Arrearagesofrent" , "Ex-sheriffs' debts" and"Statementsofsheriffs' arrears" , primarily refer to routine Exchequer business, and , although of no little interest in that respect, are useful for our purpose only in enabling us to trace the later historyofrecusants' debts In the text of the present volume will be found instances ofall the above types of entryexcept "Ex-sheriffs' debts" , which donot begin to appear until the 4th RecusantRoll (1595-6).

I shall now describe these eight varieties in the order in which they usually occur in the county accounts, giving, in each case , examples ofthe originalLatin form270 and showing, bythe insertion of letters in square brackets, the method of analysis employed throughout the work.

166 Occurring in the 5th, 7th, 10th and 11thElizabethanrolls only. Of allthe counties Hertfordshire provided the Exchequer with the least recusant business

267Although represented in the first Recusant Roll (C.R.S. , vol xviii), this county is thereafter conspicuous by its absence until the 9th and 10th rolls (1600-1602), when the long lists of convictions and land-seizures show the existence of a strong recusant population. The evidence of the Pipe Rolls and Receipt Books(Pells') indicatesthat, certainlyafter 1588, theElizabethan sheriffs ofNorthumberlandpreoccupiedwithBorderdefence (cf. S.P. 12/28/ no 27)-made no proffers of revenue whateverat Westminster , and seemsto imply that such Crown revenue (recusant and non-recusant) as was collected was accounted forlocally beforethe Queen's Auditoron circuit, andperiodically paid into the Exchequer as gross sums by the Queen's Receiver appointed for the county, in accordance with the new Tudor Exchequer system (cf. p xcvi, note 438) This would explain the irregularity of Northumberland enrolments in the Recusant Rolls andthe absence ofannotationsof payment

268The Wallia section is whollyabsent in the 3rd , 6th, 7th, 9th and 11thElizabethan rolls

269 §§II, III and IV (see Appendix ; and supra, pp xxiii-v)

270 In doing so I have expanded the Latin text and added punctuation

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1. Thepreambleto a countysection gives the name ofthesheriff responsible for the ensuing account and the Exchequer dating of his year of office In the preamble to the first occurring county (normally, as here, this was Bedfordshire) a referenceis also given to the Q.R. Memoranda Roll wherein the text of the statute of 1586-7, the authority for the present Exchequer proceedings, is enrolled. Those relating to the subsequent counties have an abbreviated form. 271 The following is the Latin of the present Bedfordshire preamble :

NICHOLAUS LUKE armiger, vicecomes huius comitatus a festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni domine nunc Elizabeth , Dei gratia Anglie , Francie et Hibernie regine, fidei defensoris etc. xxxvto usque idem festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli extunc proxime sequentem , anno eiusdem domine regine nunc xxxvjto, scilicet per unum annum integrum, REDDIT COMPOTUM de firmis et aliis debitis Recusancium infrascriptorum eidem domine regine debitis PRAETEXTU cuiusdam Actus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium vicesimo nono die Octobris anno vicesimo octavo eiusdem regine in huiusmodi casu editi et provisi , ac irrotulati in Memorandis ex parte Rememoratoris Regine de anno xxixno, videlicet inter Recorda de terminoPasche, rotulo [blank], UT INFERIUS . (Translation in text , p. 1)

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These items do not appear in the first Recusant Roll (C.R.S. , xviii). Instead,wefinda single,generalpreambleto thewhole roll, 21 with no mention ofsheriffs'names or oftheir"renderingofaccounts" -a fact which emphasises the difference in character (already pointed out) between that roll and its successors. The recurrence henceforth ofcounty preambles and statements of sheriffs' arrears indicates that from now on the Recusant Rolls, as distinct from the Pipe Rolls, form the official records of sheriffs' accounting in thematterof recusancy .

2. Rentals of seized lands Theseentries, which (with "Forfeituresofgoodsand chattels" : no. 4 below) givedetails ofthe statutory penalties incurred by individual recusants who failed to pay the fine of £20 a month, are by far the most informative items in the rolls. Containing particulars of lands and tenements which , having been seized, now constitute Crown "farms" from which a fixed rent is due, they are identifiable in the MS by the marginal

271 The county Preamble being actually an unessential adjunct to the roll, itis not surprising that through negligence on the part of the engrosser it was occasionally omitted However, its omission in the case of the Welsh countiesand ofthe CountiesPalatine (and probably also of Northumberland -see note 267) was deliberate and significant of the fact that theirsheriffs did not account at the Westminster Exchequer (see infra, pp cvii-viii) Regarding Huntingdonshirein this roll, see the preamble to Cambridgeshire 272 The Latin text may be seen in C.R.S. , vol xviii, p 1

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Although many examples of the original Latin may be seen in C.R.S. vol xviiito which references are given in footnotes tothe text ofthe present bookit will be convenient, in order to illustrate the application of our analytical scheme, to set out here afresh a typicalentryofthis class. 276 The following item from thecurrent roll is the first enrolment of the newly-seized lands of the recusant widow , Martha Braybrook (Berks , [7]). The inserted letters in square brackets show the divisions of the analysis as indicated in the"Key" . firma. [A] Tenentes duarum parcium terrarum et tenementorum (B] Marthe Brabrooke, vidue, recusantis, [C] debent xlij.s. ij.d. obolum quadrantem per annum [D] de firma duarum parcium medietatis maneriorum de Marleston et Adresham, ac octo tenementorum in Abindon, unius tenementiin Sutton Courtney & unius pecie terre vocate Coppes Lease in Sparsholte in Comitatu predicto, [E(a)] in manus domine Reginenunc per Edmundum Fettiplace, armigerum, et alios virtute commissionis dicte domine Regine eis et aliis directe [E(b)] xxvto die Septembris anno xxxvtocapta et seisita, [E(d)] sicut continetur in Memorandis predictis de anno xxxvto videlicet inter Recorda de termino sancti

273 The same indicatory letter is prefixed to Pipe Roll entries relating to"feefarm" rents oftheCrown, withwhichclass these recusant farmsare identicalexcept thatthe tenure described in the latter is not permanent but essentially contingent and temporary (cf. the quamdiu clause in Crown leases , section (Hc),infra, p. lxxviii, and in "Key") Incidentally, recusant farmsare in no way connected with "the farm of the county" , as is wrongly stated in Recusant History, IV, 196, note 10

274E.g. in the annotation to Derbys [2], andpassim in division D of Statements of sheriffs' arrears It should be remarked, however , that in the phrase nec de eademfirma de cetero oneraridebet (regularlyoccurringin annotations offinaldischarge; e.g. Berks [6]), the word firma signifies "rent" . Such is the rendering given in the English rolls of the Commonwealth period in similar contexts

275 See infra, pp lxxiv-v andcii-v.

276 Variant forms of entries relatingto land-seizures carriedout priorto1587 are referredto on p. lxxix

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Michaelis, rotulo [blank]. [F] Et xxj.s. j.d. quadrantem dimidium de anno preterito [G] SUMMA lxiij s iiij.d. dimidium quadrantis

[J] Sed non debent summoneride xlij.s. ij.d. obolo quadrante qui sunt de eadem firma de hoc anno, nec de eadem firmaa festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno xxxyto de cetero onerari, eoquod Willelmus Broncker, miles, et alius respondent de eadem firma a dicto festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli dicto anno xxxyto & deinceps debent domine Regine respondere per aliam commissionem , sicut continetur immediate infra Et debent xxj.s. j.d. quadrantemdimidium.

In Thesauro xxj.s. j.d. obolus tercio die Junii anno xxxvjto infra quandam summam lxiij.s. iiij.d. sub nomine Humfridi Foster, militis, vicecomitis, de eadem firma de solucione. Etquieti sunt

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farm . [A]The tenants of two third parts ofthe lands and tenements of[B] Martha Brabrooke, widow, recusant, [C] owe42s.2 d yearly [D]from the farm of two thirds parts of a moiety .. [etc., translation in text, p 4], [E(a)] byvirtue oftheQueen's commission directed to Edmund Fettiplace, esq., and others, [E(b)] taken and seized into the hands of the presentQueen on 25 September, 35 Eliz.; [E(d)] as is contained in the said Memoranda Roll, 277 Michaelmas term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [blank] [F] And 21s 11d and a halffarthing for the preceding year [G] Total : 63s 4d and a half-farthing. [J] But they ... [etc. translation in text, ibid.].

Some points in the above sections call for explanation [A]"Tenants"(Tenentes) In the case of extensivelandspreviously let to farm, the word will refer to the recusant's former tenantry occupying and cultivating the land contained within the seized portion, whose rents were now forfeited by the recusant to the Crown Where the estate was small and farmed bythe owneras , for instance, were probably most of the properties listed under Lancashire in this rollthe word will of course signifythe recusant himself "Two third parts" . This rendering of duarum parcium appears regularlyunder the Commonwealth 278 After 1586 the amountof land seized wasalwaystwo-thirdsofthe total estateas wasrequired

277 I.e. the L.T.R. roll mentionedin the precedingitem (Berks. [6], intext)

278 The Latin here is an abbreviated reference to the phrase due partes in separalitate a terciaparte recusantis (two parts separated fromthe recusant's third part)-which was normally used in writs of commissionfor recusant land-seizures, and occasionally appears in the Recusant Rolls, e.g. Derbys [7], E(b)

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by section IV of the statute of that year 279 This fact must be remembered when we meet items specifying the seizure of whole properties (e.g. Cambs. [2] ; Essex [17] ; Lancs. [138]). In such cases the implication is that an undisclosed "third part" , retained by the recusant, exists elsewhere

[D]"from the farm of ... " (de firma ... ). The recusant's former tenants, materially unaffected (in theory at least) by the change of landlords, now held their land directly of the Crown , without obligation of feudal service , for a fixed "fee-farm" rent at the old rate. Theserents, however, they apparently continued (in somecases)to pay to therecusantthe latter being heldresponsible for their actual delivery to the sheriff.280

In the first enrolment of a land-seizure 281 this sectionDis normallymore detailed than in later re-enrolments ofthe same farm , and indeed would appear, from an examination of some of the cited Memoranda Rolls, to give the actual terms of the jurors' verdict onthe property. We mayhere remark, however , that many specifications returned by Elizabethan commissioners of inquiry were, in fact, inadequate for purposes of a lawful seizure, and there is evidencethat Coke, during his attorney-generalship (1593-1606), acceptednot a few recusants' petitions for dischargein the court of Exchequer on grounds of"insufficient" or inaccurate description 282 An attempt to correct this laxity was made shortlyafter the Queen's death when instructions were issued to commissionerspointing out the requirements for a satisfactory return of recusants' lands . 283 These were that it must describe the legal tenure of the estate, identifythe various manors, and distinguish, by their local names if possible, the several messuages, tenements, farms and cottages, stating the parish in whichthey lie, the names ofthe occupiers and the yearly value of each. It must also give the separate acreage and value of the landsarable, meadow, pasture, woods etc.and certifythe terms of all leases held One observes that, in thelight of these directions, the specification in the present entry was itself seriously deficient It was nevertheless allowed to pass : no action wasever taken unless the recusant himselfraised the issue

[E(a)] "Queen's commission" . These Exchequer commissions for seizureare referred to under "Property-seizure" , pp lxii-iii

[E(b)] The date given is that of the inquisition and seizure, not ofthe issueofthe commission .

279 Between 1581 and 1587 the amount of land to be seized forthe non-payment ofrecusant fines was undefined Cf. supra, p xxxiii, 5(b)

280 Cf. Cal S. P. Dom Eliz., vol 271, no 108

281 First enrolments of seized lands are asterisked throughout the text of the present work

282 Cf.BiographicalStudies, II, pp 10-12.

283 Instructionsto Such as are appointed by Commission out of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer to inquire of the lands of Recusants, Sharp MSS , 110, ff 16-17 Prior's Kitchen, Durham Undated : early 17th c This document was kindlybrought tomy noticeby Dr.Anne M.C. Forster

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It will be noticed that the phrase asserting the reason for the seizureracione recusancie sue : "by reason of his/her recusancy" (division(c) in the "Key")is often, as inthis case , omitted.

[E(d)]"Recorda" section Matters dealt with in this section of the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls are there entitled CommuniaRecorda ("Records of Common Business") and relate to the judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings of the Exchequer court of revenue. For all matters touching the seizure of property these rolls give the authoritative record, and are therefore regularly cited in first enrolments of rental items in the Recusant Rolls 284 Further remarks onthese importantsources will be found on p. cv.

[F] "from the previous year" . We should note that although this seizure was carried out only three days before the commencement ofthe new Exchequeryear (when the lease began), the tenants were held responsible for the rent of the whole previous periodLadyday to Michaelmas 1593. Whatever the date of the seizure , the Crown always claimed the full rent for the half-year in which the seizurewas made

[J] On the general subject ofannotations see pp. cii-v. Thefirst part ofthe present annotation announces a change offarmers, the tenants having been replaced by two Crown-appointed lessees The same form is used in recording a changeoflessees (e.g. Lancs. [17]) Added beneathbeginning with the words In Thesaurois a later note ofpayment and acquittance, a more typical example ofwhich may be seen under the Crown lease set out below (p lxxviii) The following points are also worthy ofremark. "to be summoned" (summoneri) The term, in this context , signifies"to be called upon to pay, or answerfor." "byanother commission" (per aliam commissionem). This wasa commission of inquiry for leasing. 285 Such commissions were always issued preparatively to the appointment of a lessee-farmer for the seized lands, and were concerned, in particular, with an investigation ofthe legal details relating to the existing estate Like commissions for seizure , they wereawarded out of the Exchequer― the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer being responsible for their drafting286 and appear to have been accompanied in each case by a copy of the assessment made at the time of the seizure. On these occasions, therefore, a fresh inquiry was carried out on lands already in the Queen's possession , and the prospective lessee or his agent was doubtless always in attendance In some instances , when the latter was suing for the lease at the time of the seizure,

284 Inre-enrolmentsthereis usuallysubstituteda reference to the Pipe orRecusant Roll containing the last previous mention of the item, e.g. Berks [2], D ; Cheshire [5], E(d)

285 Cf. supra, p lxiii, note240 .

286 See the Treasurer'swarrant, signed by himself and the Sub-Treasurer , for the leasing of ThomasBarneby'slands to Ann Twiste (E. 367/1017) This leaseis recordedin the present roll (Yorks [19], [36] and[45]).

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the records ofthe two commissions were merged in a singleentryin the Recusant Rolle.g. Lincs. [15], where the first enrolment of the seizure is combined with that of the lease . "in the name .. . (sub nomine . . .). Such parentheses are not uncommon in annotations of payment (e.g. Berks [2] ; Norfolk [31], D ; Suffolk[24]). They indicate the actual payer as recorded in the Receipt Books ofthe Clerkofthe Pells.287

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Crown leases. The necessity of maintaining some direct control over the collecting of rents from seized recusant lands led the Exchequer, even before the passingofthe statute of 1586-7, to remove this task as quickly as possible out of the hands ofsheriffs' officersbythe leasing of suchlands to "farmers" who had, or could be given, a personal interest in its performance 288 Afterthat date , the system was widely developed, particularlyin regard to the more valuable estates , owing to the new spate ofseizures consequentupon section IV of the Act.289

The accommodating attitude adopted by officialdom in this business gave considerable scope to lease-hunters. The only conditions imposed were that the lessee (and his assigns) should conform to the established religion, and undertake, upon good security, to pay a yearly rent not lower than that found for the Queen by the commissioners But the general readiness of the latter to seize only the more profitable portions ofthe lands and to underestimatetheir rental value provided an additionalinducement to speculators, who, as prospective managers of useful property, saw in the situationopportunities ofgreat personal gain.

Amongthe various means of securing a grant was, notably, the Lord Treasurer's warrant, offered in the first place to servants of the Queen'shousehold and others in office about the Court, whereby anyone bywhose information a recusant was indicted and convicted was guaranteed a place on the commission ofinquiry to "find" the lands, and a lease of the seized two-thirds This produced many acceptableapplicants. Upon receipt of the warrant, a practice of theirs according to a contemporary reportwas, first, to interview the recusant, threaten a high assessment and offer composition, and when this had been agreed upon and paid, to procure at the ensuing commissioners' inquiry a valuation below the true rate, and sublet the lands to a conformingrelative or friend nominated by the recusant 290 Transactions of this kind, safeguarding the

287 Infra, p civ, note419.

288 Cf. supra, p. xxi, note 60. The "letting to farm" of lands escheated toor confiscated by the Crown was, in fact, normal Exchequer practice.

289 By 1593 , seized recusant lands by far exceeded, in certain counties (e.g. Lancs and Yorks ), the number of non-recusant fee-farms of the Crown enrolledin thecontemporaryPipeRolls. Ofthe approximately400 recusant propertiesrecorded inthe present roll, abouthalf hadby this time been leased

290 Such a proceedingin no way affected the status and liabilities of an official lessee vis-à-vis the Crown

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family lands from spoliation by strangers , were considered "tolerable" by the recusants, and are said to have been common throughout the country up to 1597.291 Official sources naturally throw but little light on such matters Nevertheless, the present roll explicitly mentions a connection with the royal household in the case of twenty-six of the lessees (e.g. Berks [5] ; Bucks [1]), and so affords some valuable confirmation of the above report292 : nor should we assume that the list is complete 293 Furtherresearch upon the data of this roll also corroborates the statement that in certain instances the official lesseeship was obtained by a kinsman of the recusant examples have been found in the entries Oxfords [7] and Berks [8]. Obviously , a knowledge of the character and careers of individual lessees would be very pertinent to an appreciation ofthe fateofthe recusant concerned.

The traffic in leases described above was successful , despite its chicanery, in producing a small but fairly regular flow of revenue by way of rents In August 1597 , however, Thomas Felton , assisted by Sir John Stanhope, began his disastrous "service" . On the strength of his undertaking to increasethe revenue from recusant lands, Felton obtained a special commission under the Great Seal, at a salary of £200 a year plus expenses, 294 to review existing leases , raise the rents, and appoint agents with new leases in the various counties whowould supervisepersonally and rigorouslythemanagement of each property.295 His scheme, after seriously dislocating the earlier system, failed in its object, the only gainer being its ingenious contriver The storyof his operations and of the official backing he receivedtoo involved to be discussed heredeserves a specialstudy. 296

291 Cf. the report dated 1599 from "Francis Cordale" of London to "Marco Tusinga ofVenice" (identifiedby Fr. LeoHicks, S.J., asrespectively Anthony Rivers, a Catholiclayman, and FatherParsons, S.J.) This highlyinformative and important despatch was interceptedand is now preserved among the State Papers : S.P. 12/271, no 108 .

292 Some of these persons will be seento hold several leases , e.g. John Parkerin Lancs.; WilliamHunnisin Suffolk, Herefords. andYorks

293 For instance , RogerGifford (Yorks [42]), whose connectionwith the Court is not mentionedin the roll, is described in the original particular ofhis lease (E. 318, Box 49) as "one ofherMaties phisitions"

294 Profitably exchanged by him in 1602 for an overall grant of one sixth ofall moneys raised .

295Among his victims were Henry Kervile of West Toftes (Norfolk [21]), John Thymolby of Irnham (Lincs [6]), Thomas Gawen of FishertonAnger (Wilts [8]) and William Fawkenor of East Meon, Hants (Wilts [2]) : see S.P. 12/271/108 Cf. also the petition of Robert Grey (Suffolk [10]), printed in C.R.S.vol liii (p 177, no 1305)

296 Felton's public career may be followed in the Calendars of State Papers (Domestic) of the years 1598, 1599, 1600, 1602 and 1607. His earliest experience as a lessee of recusant lands appears to have occurredin 1592 : cf.Suffolk [24] in the present roll ("Peter Whyte" , mentionedin the annotation, is stated in the correspondingReceipt Book (Pells') to have been his "assignee")

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In considering the form ofCrown lease entries, sometwo hundred of which are to be seen in the present document, we immediately notice that while in most cases they concern one lessee and one recusant,thereareseveral instances ofdoubled lessees (e.g. Berks, [2]), and also of compound leases (e.g. Norfolk [28]) combining in a single entry the properties of two or three recusantsa fact referred to again under "Re-enrolments" below The general form of lease-enrolments, however, remains constant, and as a convenient example we may select that of the lands seized from the abovementioned Martha Braybrook

This item (Berks [8])297 well illustrates the three main points which differentiate the enrolment of a lease from that of a seizure, viz. the insertion of the name of the lessee as farmer of the seized lands, replacing the "tenants" (section A in the "Key") ; a more detailed specification ofthe lands, with a definitionofthe tenure of the recusant's estate (section D) ; the presence of an additional section, H, giving particulars of the lease The Latin form ofthis item is as follows : firma. [A]Willelmus Broncker, miles, etRicardus Hyde,armiger,298

[C] debent xlij.s. ij.d. & ij partes denarii per annum [D] defirma duarum parcium medietatis manerii de Marleston alias Marston alias Maston cum pertinenciis universis in ComitatuBerk' , unde Martha Braybroke, nuper deparochia de Brickleton in Comitatu predicto, vidua, Recusans , seisita est in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento pro termino vite sue, annui valoris, ultra reprisas,299 viginti solidorum, unde due partes domine Regine valencia per annum tresdecim solidi & quattuor denarii ; ac duarum parcium medietatis manerii de Fowelescott alias Foulscott & Adresham cum pertinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Berk' , unde predicta Martha seisita est ut supra, annui valoris, ultra reprisas, viginti solidorum, unde due partes domine Regine valencia per annum tresdecim solidi & quottuor denarii .. . [etc. The above form is repeated in specifying the remaining lots referred to in Berks [8] : freely translated in text, pp 4-5] : que premissa sunt parcella terrarum et tenementorum [B] predicte Marthe Braybroke [E(b)] ac in manus domine Regine xxvto die Septembris anno xxxvto [E(a)] per Edmundum Fetyplace, armigerum, & alios dicte domine Regine commissionarios

397 Firstenrolmentsof leases are indicated by a dagger throughout the present work

298The relationship of the Bronckersand Hydes to the Braybrooksis shownin VisitationsofBerkshire (HarleianSoc , vols 56and 57), and inV.C.H.,Berkshire Other instances of kinship between lessee and recusant may probably be found to exist.

299 Reprises, i.e. yearly payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges or annuities, were always deducted in assessingthe value of a property

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capta & seisita. [H(a)]300 Habendum et tenendum firmam predictam prefatis Willelmo Broncker & Ricardo Hyde, executoribus & assignatissuis, [H(b)] a festo SanctiMichaelis Archangeli anno xxxvto Regine huius [H(c)] quamdiu in manibus domine Regine remanere contigerint , [H(d)] reddendo inde per annum quadraginta duos solidos, duos denarios & duas partes denarii legalis monete Anglie [H(e)] ad festa Annunciacionis beate Marie Virginis, et sancti Michaelis Archangeli , ad Receptam Scaccarii per equales porciones ; [H(k)] sicut continetur in Rotulo de Irrotulamentis dimissionum301 de anno xxxvjto Regine huius, sub signo Berk'

[J] In thesauro xxj.s. ij.d. xxmo die Aprilisanno xxxvjtode eadem firma de solucione . 302 Et in thesauro xxj.s. ij.d. xvjmodie Octobris anno xxxvjtode eadem firma de solucione. Et QuietiSunt.

b) Re-enrolments of land-seizures and leases. By 1593 , the number of annual re-enrolments (e.g. Derbys [6] ; Berks [2]), accumulating year by year after 1583,303 formed the majority ofthe entries in the rental sections of the Recusant Rolls Although, as abridgments of the first enrolments, they usually omit details of the actual seizureand presenta much curtailed specification ofthe lands, theyregularly cite an earlier record wherein further particulars may be found304 and are by no means of negligible interest. Their very presence in the roll is, of course, itself of historical value in that thereby the total number and identity of recusant properties in the Crown's possession at any period is revealed. Moreover, new facts are often currentlyappendedregarding the financial condition

300 The "Habendum clause" which follows may be rendered thus: "[H(a)] To have and tohold thesaidfarm tothe aforesaid WilliamBronckerand Richard Hyde, their executors and assigns, [H(b)] from Michaelmas35 Eliz , [H(c)] for as long as it shallremaininthe Queen's hands, [H(d)] renderingannually in respect thereof42s 2d and two-thirds ofa pennyof lawful Englishmoney [H(e)] at Ladydayand Michaelmasto the Receiptof the Exchequer , in equal portions ; [H(k)] as is containedin the Roll of the Enrolmentsof Leases of the year36 Eliz. , underthetitle" Berk' "" .

301 The"Roll of the Enrolmentsof Leases" (possiblyin book form, andrelating exclusivelyto recusants) is regularly cited in first enrolments , but has apparently not survived A number of"particulars" for such leases , however , may be seen in E. 318 , box49

302 This is the regular phrasing of annotations recording rent-payment. It is ofcoursea mere Latin jotting literally, "In the Treasury, 21s 2d , 20April 36 Eliz ., from the same farm, in payment" Regardingthe note Et Quieti Sunt, see p. ciii, note418

303 The earliestinstances ofrecusant land-seizures are recordedin thePipe Roll ofMich 25-26 Eliz (1583-4)-E. 372/429 , e.g. underItem Southt' and Wiltes'

304 Where the Pipe Rolls are cited, however , I find that the reference is often not to the original enrolment but merelyto the last previousmention of the farm. This is true for instance of all Hugh Cuff's leases To find full particulars, one has, in exasperation , to work back by stages to the original entry.

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of each farmarrears of rent, total current debt, references to previous unsuccessful attempts at rent-levying (e.g. Derbys [5]), annotations of payment and dischargefrom whichthe continued Exchequer history of the recusant may be broadly inferred 305 In this respect, indeed, re-enrolments merit our close attention.

We may hereremarkupon the curious phrasing ofrent-statements occasionally found in re-enrolled entries. This occurs where parts of seized properties have been relinquished, e.g. "£27-9-4, the remainder of £58-5-51" (Beds [2]), 306 or where compound leases have been broken-up and their components enrolled as separate items, e.g. "£1-6-8, a part of £31-15-7" (Oxfords [14]). 307 Notable examplesmay be seen in all Hugh Cuff'sleases(e.g.Cheshire [2]). By such brief notes, regularly repeated, the Exchequer clerks ensured that the identity of each Crownfarm was preserved and could betraced back throughthe rolls.

(c) Land-seizures for pre-1587 debts

Our document contains forty-nine instances of lands sequestered for failureto pay pre-1587 fines as required by section III of the statute of 1586-7(seep xxiv) Eachentry bears the distinctive phrase " ... who is indebted tothe Queenin the sum of ... by virtue of a certain Act oftheParliament begun on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz" , and in the present work is indicated bythe sign .

It should, however, be pointed out that thirty-nine other rental entries occur wherein mention is likewise made of specific debts occasioningthe seizure, in suchformulas as (a) " ... who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of ... by reason of his recusancy"(e.g. Herefords. [9]), or (b), "for the satisfaction of the debt of . (e.g. Hants [2]). Although in many instances these are explicitly related to debts contracted prior to the statute of 1586-7 (e.g. Suffolk[21]), there is some doubt, since they omit reference to that statute,whetherthey have any connectionwiththe specialpreparatory regulations therein prescribed (§III) regarding unpaid pre1587 fines. Formula (a), indeed, appears to be merely the survival of phraseology used in early enrolments of land-seizures , and to have no special significance ; formula (b)-found mostly where the seizure itselfis prior to 1587may well indicate debts incurredin prosecutions by information, under the former statute of 1581 . In the case of Hugh Cuff's farms, for example, there is particular likelihood that the phrase has reference to his own operations in the rôle of common informer.

3. Arrearages ofrent. In dealing with this perennial problem, the Exchequer from time to time selected, out of the vast mass of

305 The significance of a total absence of annotations(e.g. Beds [2] and Warwicks passim) is referredtoinfra, pp lxxxvii-viii, notes 344 and 351

306 Cf. supra, p. xxxi, note 98 .

307 This latter practiceis exemplifiedin the four items, Oxfords [8], [14], [15] and [16]. Note the change in the rent-statements of the last three items

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accumulated arrears, certain specific sums for separateenrolment, and ordered process to be issued to the sheriffs fortheircollectionor, failing this, the production of a report for the scrutinyofthe barons.

In form, these items are similar to enrolments of seized lands (described above), wherefore their analysis in the present book follows the scheme adopted for that class of entry . 308 They are , however, differentiated from the latter in the MS by the absence of the initialnote firma, being in fact records of isolated debts, notof serialrents .

Thirty-oneexamplesoccur in our roll Fifteen of them309 will be seen to be half-year rents owed for the period betweenthe date of the land-seizure and the following Ladydayor Michaelmasfrom which days leases usually ran 310 Although we occasionally find lessees accepting responsibility for the rent of the half-year thus immediately preceding their grants (e.g. Devon [2]), such debts, when left chargeable to the "tenants" of the lands, tended to be often neglected The remaining sixteen examples 311 relate to longstanding arrears of one (or more) year's rent, transferred to the charge of current sheriffs from the accounts of their unavailing predecessors . In these cases the purpose of the enrolment is intimately connected with the procedure of discharging sheriffs , as will be explained later.312 An alternative method of enrolling arrearages of this kind was to include them in the year's total debt in rental entries (e.g. Herefords. [4] ; Monmouths . [2] and [3]) These items are of little historical interest, except as illustrating the conduct of normal Exchequerbusiness.

4. Forfeiture of goods and chattels The "goods" liable to forfeiture by recusants in default of payment of the monthly £20 fine313 usually designatedin the items ofthe presentroll as "goods and chattels" (bona et catalla)-signified"all goods, movable and immovable, except such as are in the nature of freehold, or parcel of it. "314 These might be "chattels personal" , as livestock (e.g. Cheshire [8] ; Notts [5] ; Yorks [28]), cut crops (Cambs [7]),

808 A differencewill be observed , however , in the order of some of the points within the items . The most important part of these entries is of course division F (see "Key")

309 I.e. Cheshire[6] and [7] ; Hants [22] ; Kent [6] ; Lancs [25], [26], [35] ; Norf [21]; Notts [7]; Salop [17], [18] ; Staffs [21]; Worcs [11]; Yorks [39], [40]. Several examples of the Latin formof this typeofArrearage itemmay be seen in C.R.S.XVIII, pp. 214-16.

310 Cf. supra, p lxxiv[F]

311 I.e. Gloucs [9] ; Hants [26] ; Herefs [16] ; Lancs [80] ; Norf [26], [27]; Salop[23]; Staffs. [20], [22]; Suff [20]; Surr . /Sussex [31]; Westmld. [3], [4] Yorks [44], [45], [46]. For the Latin form of such entries cf. C.R.S. xviii, p. 18 (last item)

312 Cf. infra, p. lxxxix (c)

313 Statuteof 1586-7 , §IV. Supra, pp. xxiv andxxxiii (b).

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woods and underwood (Salop [19]), household furniture, plate, jewelry315; or "chattels real" , as leases, rents for a term ofyears (Lancs [21]), interest in advowsons.316 Money was not accounted goods or chattels, 317 but debts credited to the recusant were so regarded (Surrey/Sussex [27]).

Seizure of goods and chattels was initiated by a process similar to that issued for the seizure of lands, directing commissioners , assisted by a jury, to investigate each case and to return to the Exchequer an inventory of the goods, with an appraisement of their worth and a statement that they had been "taken and seized into the Queen's hands" Although, in accordance with the statute , a single writ ofcommission normallyrequired simultaneous action to be taken on both the lands and the goods of a newly convicted recusant, 318 we find not a few instances in the Recusant Rolls where the seizure of goods was omitted 319 On the other hand, thelatter penalty was evidently regarded as especiallyapplicable to the landless recusant, and there are many first enrolments ofsuch seizures in this and later rollswhichare not accompaniedby corresponding seizures of lands. 320 It is also apparent that , although the statutedemandedthe forfeitureofall goods andchattels, a very loose interpretationwas tolerated, the sums allotted to the Queen's use being often paltry in relation to the financialstanding ofthe recusant. Inquisitionsindeed seem to have been mostlyof a perfunctorycharacter. One may, for instance, safely assertthat the £5-19-4 due from James Digby of Liddington (Rutland [3]) did not represent more than a fraction of the value of his total chattel possessions Here the inventory shows that only common household articles were seized (this was apparently the normal practice), of which the most valuable lotfound in the "Butrychamber" ofhis dwelling-housewas priced at 23s 4d and consisted of "1 bedstedd, 1 fetherbedd, 2 blanketts, 1 coverlett, 1 coffer , 2 cubbords, 1 truncke, 6 wooden boxes, 1 lether box, 1 cheyre" . The only animals listed were "1 sowe, 2 piggesprice iiij.s."321 . Whether this scanty return signifies merely the successfulconcealment by the recusant of his more valuable goods or implies his actual briberyofthe inquisitor, we have no means of telling The

315 Utensilia, occasionallymentionedunder Lancs (e.g. entry [76]), weredoubtlesstheimplementsoftherecusant's tradeor occupation

316 Suchproperty was, alternatively, sometimes farmed as "realty" (e.g. Wilts [7]; Lincs [8])

317 Jacob loc cit

318 Cf. records of such proceedings in the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls, e.g. E. 368/470, rot 60 (Lancs ) Consecutive first enrolments in the present document illustrate this fact (e.g. Cambs [6] and [7]; Rutland [2] and [3]).

319 Note, for example , the absence of seizures of goods belongingto the recusants named in Cornwall [8] to [13]. Under James Iitwastherule toforbear the seizure of goods when the recusant's lands were of considerable value (Recusant History, IV, 194, (9))

320 E.g. Northants [10]-[20]

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Exchequer, in any case, accepted it without demur It should , nevertheless , be pointed out that any advantage to recusants in such transactions was offset by the fact that further parcels of goods could from time to time be sought for and taken from the same recusant if he showed no signs of responding to coercion by going to church. These additional seizures were carried out by fresh commissions issued purelyforthe seizureof goods322

As instances of a statutory penalty inflicted upon recusants , the entries relating to such forfeitures have for the student of this subject an interest equivalent to that of enrolled land-seizures. As records, however, they are far less informative , chiefly because the Pipe Office authorities , concerned solely with the cashvalue ofthe goods, usually omit all details regarding their specific character― eventhough, asshownabove, inventories were demandedandactually copied into the Memoranda Rolls ofthe Treasurer's Remembrancer. Of the 104 entries of this class occurring in the present document only the seven cited above mention, casually, the nature of the things seized . In the Recusant Rolls such forfeituresthus appear simply as pecuniary debts, the amount in each case being the sum fixed by the appraisers when the goods were seized for the Queen. Only four other points are invariably presentthe name of the official debtor (who , not infrequently , was the commissioner(s) responsible for the seizure), the name of the recusant, the date of the seizure, and a referenceto the Memoranda Roll containingthe record of its authorisation and performance Nearly every item , however, bears a postscript which refers us to the later history of the debt . With regard to the execution of these seizures the information yielded by our roll is so meagre that any attempt to describe the procedure followed in individual cases must necessarily be largely speculative. Nevertheless, the form of the entries, which in each case is based on facts returned to the Exchequer by the commissioners , would seem to offer some general guidance on this point We observethat , with a view to charging the sheriff with thelevying ofthe debts, the clerk is careful to state at the outset the identity ofthe personswho, as the present holders ofthe goods, are answerable to the Crown for their cash value A closer examination of our roll showsthat (a) in eighteen of the items this officialdebtor is stated to bethe commissioners(e.g. Cornwall[7] : Derbys [3]) ;3 .323

332 E.g. L.T.R., M.R.; E. 368/481, rot 162 (cf. BiographicalStudies, II, 119)

323Original text of the latter entry : "Robertus Aston Ar' ThomasAlsoppet Johannes Bamford generos' deb' xxiij.l quas [libras] ceperunt de bonis et catall' predicti Christopheri Rolston Recusan' Sicut cont' ibid"" . The relative clause in entries of this form would seem to implythat the actual cash-equivalentof the goods was alreadyin the possession of the commissioners (Compare this with Notts [5]-wherein the clause suggests that sale had not takenplace priorto thereturn of therecord).

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(b) in twenty, the sheriff (e.g. Berks. [9] : Lancs. [79]) ;324 (c) in sixty-five, the recusant himself (e.g. Cheshire [8]: Dorset [5]). 325 Seemingly, the situation respectively alluded to in these three categories326 was that, at the date of the return, the goodsor their value in moneyhad been (a) secured and retained by the commissioners; (b) handed over by the commissioners to the sheriff ; (c) left undisturbed in the hands of the recusant, but earmarkedfor the Queenand awaiting the attention ofthe sheriff.327 Wemaynote in passing that the sheriff's subsequent investigation occasionally disclosed serious errors in the original enrolments. 328 Except in cases where the money was immediately tendered by the recusant329 (when the goods, of course, were never removed), it was the usual practice for the sheriff's bailiffs to impound the goods and, if necessary, sell them by auction In the course of such proceedings peculation was rife. This is vouched for by contemporary writers,330 and is corroborated by the infrequency with which these sums actually reached Westminster. In only fifteen instances in the present roll (seven of them in Lancs ) is there definite proof of the receipt of such forfeitures by the Exchequer.331 Re-enrolments of unpaid debts of this kind are indeed

324Original text of the former entry : "Humphridus Foster miles vicecomes deb' xxvj.s viij.d. super ipsum onerat' pro precio sive valore bonor' Rogeri Astell de Basseldon yoman Recusan' Sicut cont' in Memorand' ex parte Remem' Thes' de anno xxxvjto videlicet inter Record' de termino Pasche rotulo [ ]"

325 Original text of the latter entry : "Ricardus Okeford de Hamperton yom' Recusans deb' x.s. pro precio sive valor' bonor' et catall' suor' in manus dicte domine Regine per prefatos commissionar ' similiter capt' et seisit' Sicutcont' ibidem" .

326Actually a fourth categoryexistsof which only one exampleappears in this roll (Surrey /Sussex [27])wherein a person in debt to the recusantis recorded as the official debtor to the Crown for the sum owed All such assetswere forfeitas part ofthe recusant's goods : cf. Ford and Sheldon's case (1606), 12 Co. Rep. I, at p 2. (Coke, Reports (1826), VI, p. 189)

327It would appear that the injunction "to take and seize into the Queen's hands" (a phrase used in writs ofcommissionin regardnot only to goodsbut alsoto lands) did not implyany special mandateto remove the goods or to take their cash value, but only necessitated the formal investiture of the Queen with their possession Nevertheless , items in category (a) above show that commissioners did in fact occasionallycarry out these further functions normally reserved to sheriffs' officers (cf. Rutland [3])

328 Cf. Lancs [93], annotation ; Staffs [10]-[19], note 11. The latter cases , incidentally, are referredto in Foley, Records S. J., vol iv (series ix, x, xi), p 492

329 The date in the annotation to Rutland [3] seems to indicate that thiswasa casein point.

330E.g. Morris , Troubles (1877), Series III, pp 8-59 .

331 Lancs [142] For the rest, cf. Berks [11], E ; Dorset [5]-[8], note 3 ; Rutland [3]; Shropshire[22], E. Finally, the MemorandaRoll cited in the annotation to Lancs [79] (i.e. E. 368/474, rot 102) reveals that the £20debt ofNicholasLangford was also actuallypaid, but that this sum , togetherwith all the Queen's interests in the lands seized fromhim, was made over to Sir William Hatton by royal grant dated 16 June, 34 Eliz (1592).

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of common occurrence in the earlier Recusant Rolls.332 After 1596 (and especially under James I) it was customary to consign new, unpromising items quickly to the special Exannual Roll of Recusants333 as "desperate debts" , where they were often finally abandoned withoutformal discharge.

All entries relating to the forfeiture of goods and chattels are fully translated in the present work, their brevity and diversityof form rendering analysis both unnecessaryand impracticable.

5. Ex-sheriffs' debts, although occurring next in the sequence of entries in the rolls, will be more conveniently dealt with after "Statements of sheriffs' arrears" (section 7)-with which subject they are intimatelyconnected (see p xciv)

6. Records of annual fines paid. Reference has already been made to the thirteen recusants who during the present Exchequer year paid their annual fine of £260.334 The enrolments ofthese payments will be found in the following entries : Thomas ThrogmortonBucks [4], John ArrundellCornwall [14], George CottonHants [25], Robert ApriceHunts , John TowneleyLancs [137], Ferdinand ParrisNorfolk [30], Sir Thomas Tresham -Northants. [22], Edward Rookewood, Edward Sullyard and Michael Hare Suffolk [25], [26] and [27], John GageSurrey/ Sussex [28], John TalbottWorcs. [12], John SayerYorks. [41] Bytheend ofElizabeth's reign theirnumber had increasedto fifteen, thethree who had died (Parris, Rookewood and Gage) having been replaced by five others, namely, John Southcotte of Bulmer, Essex , gentleman, who began his regular payments in January, 1600335; Thomas Welles of Brambridge, Twyford, Hants , esquire, William Roper of Eltham, Kent, esquire, Francis Parkins of Bathampton, Wilts , esquire, who all three began in November of that year, 3 336

332 Thirty-fourofthe items in this roll are in fact re-enrolments.

333 This document, relatingexclusivelytorecusants and coveringtheyears 23 Eliz to 10CharlesI, is listed at P.R.O. as E. 363/9, i.e. the 9th of a series offifteen Exannual Rolls dating from Edward I. The purpose of an "exannual" roll wasto easetheburdenofrepetitiveclericalworkupon the Pipe or Recusant Roll by providing a single schedule (arrangedunder counties) of all debts regarded as virtually hopeless, which could be read out each year to the appropriate sheriffs, to see if any of the debts could be collected(cf. Guide (1963), I, 73) This 9th roll consists, up to 29 Eliz (1587), almostentirely of estreated recusant fines copied out of the Pipe Rollsfines which, until the passing of theActof that year, were, as we have seen (p lviii), regarded as leviable, individual debts Such items peter out altogether by 1592 , after which a gap offour years ensues Recommencing in 1596, the roll thenceforth confines itself solely to copies of Recusant Roll items relating to unpaid forfeitures of goods, and to rent-arrears from"dead" recusant farms.

334 Supra, pp xxx ,xliii-iv.

335 Recusant Roll, E. 377/5, Essex'

336 Recusant Roll, 377/8, London/Middx

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and HenryJames ofRomden, Smarden, Kent, gentleman,whobegan in April 1601.337

We are here mainly concerned with the form and significance of theentries recording these yearlydues and payments Particularly noteworthy is the fact that, despitetheirprima facieresemblanceto the simpler form of "estreated convictions" (pp xcvi seq.), these enrolments are not based (as are the estreats) on actual convictions certified from local courts, but are entirely of Exchequer origin- being mere statements of fixed, annuallyrecurrent debts due from such recusants as had already contracted to pay them . Their invariable omission of a date of conviction bears this out. The routine character of these entries itself emphasises the fact that a recusant's decision to pay his fines, once taken, was thereafter regarded as involving a permanent tax upon his estate . To the recusant, regularityof payment was of vital importance, in view of the statutorythreat to seize his property for default "in any part of any payment"338 an alternative which, from the outset, it was his aim preciselyto avoid.

Imposing,ineachcase, a fine of £260339 forrecusancyofoneyear's duration (comprising thirteen lunar months), entries of this class show a fairly consistent form,340 and regularly conclude with an annotation of discharge recording the two half-yearly settlements, at Easter and Michaelmas, in the Treasury ofthe Exchequer. The similaritybetweentheirphrasing andthat of"Enrolments ofestreated convictions" has made it possible, in this work, to include both underthesame scheme of analysis(see"Key").

The following entryin the present roll (Bucks. [4]) gives a typical example ofthe Latin text : [A]Thomas Throgmortonarmiger [C] debet [D] cclx.l. [H] eo quod ipse non frequentavit aliquam ecclesiam capellam sive locum usualem communis precacionis sed seipsumabinde absentavit [E] a xxvto die Octobris anno xxxvto Regine nunc Elizabeth usque xxiiijtum diem Octobris extunc proxime sequentem anno xxxvjto eiusdem Regine scilicet per spacium tresdecim mensium [K] videlicet iuxta ratam xxviij dierum pro quolibet mense [G] contra formam actus parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium

337 Recusant Roll, E. 377/9 , London/Middx

The last four persons had been convictedat the Old Bailey, London, as residents ofthe local parishes ofSt. Dunstan-in-the-West (Welles and Parkins), St. Andrew, Holborn (Roper), and Clerkenwell(James)-where, presumably , their Townhouseswere situated The enrolment of their annual payments was continued under London Middx in subsequent rolls, except thatofParkinswhich, in 1601 (E.377/9), was transferredto the Wiltes' account, and there remained Some reference to thelaterhistory ofthesedebts will be found in C.R.S. LIII, p 154 .

338 Statute of 1586-7 , §IV.

339 Theexceptionin Suffolk [25] is explained by thefact that a paymentof£280 had been recordedinthe previousyear Cf. C.R.S.XVIII, p 138 .

340 In the present roll, Cornwall [14] and Hants [25] show a variant arrange- ment of the usualseven points.

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xxixno die Octobris anno xxviijvo dicte domine Regine inde nuper editi et provisi pretextu predicti actus parliamenti irrotulatiin Memorandis ex parte Rememoratoris Regine de anno xxixno eiusdemReginevidelicet inter Recorda de termino Pasche rotulo [ ].

[O] InThesauro cxx.l. xjmo die Maii anno xxxvjto de solucione Et in Thesauro cxl.l. xxviijvo die Novembris anno xxxvijmo de solucione . Et QuietusEst

(Translation)

[A] Thomas Throgmorton , esquire, [C] owes [D] £260 [H] because he did notfrequent any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer, but absented himself [E] from 25th October , 35 Eliz., to 24th October next following, viz for a period of thirteen months, [K] reckoning twenty-eight days to every month , [G] against the form of an act of the parliament held [i.e. begun] at Westminster on 29th October in the 28th year of the said Queen, in that case lately published and provided, according to the text ofthe said act [as] enrolled amongtheMemoranda, on the Queen's Remembrancer's side, of the 29th year of the same Queen, viz. among the Recorda of Easterterm , rotulet [177].

[O] In the Treasury, £120, 11th May, 36 Eliz , by payment. And in the Treasury, £140, 28th November , 37 Eliz., by payment. And he is quit

Mention should be made, in conclusion, of the special case of John Draycote, esq., of Paynesley , Draycott, Staffs, the levying of whose annual debts for recusancywas stayed by royal intervention .

On 18 March 1585, the Exchequer authorities were notified, by warrant under the privy seal, that the Queen, to whom Draycote owed £600 for recusancy between March 1582, and August 1584 , had madeanoutrightgrant ofthis sumto a certain William Ashbye, esq., "our welbeloved servaunt" , for unspecified services rendered to the Crown. Again, after the passing of the statute of 1586-7 , they were similarly informed (on 11 Oct., 1587) of a further grant to the same person of all future sums accruing to the Queen at the rate of £260 a year by reason of Draycote's continued recusancy, asfrom 22 April, 1587. On these grounds, Ashbye, in Trinityterm 1591, successfullypetitioned the barons in the court of Exchequer for a formal judgment discharging Draycote (and himself) ofall past and future debts to theCrowninthis case .

Thereafter, until the end ofthe reign, the RecusantRollsannually record (in the form set out above) Draycote's current debt in two half-yearly sums, always with the note ofcancellation whichmaybe seen under the entries Staffs [24] and [26] in the present roll. The above details emerge from the Memoranda Roll there cited,341 wherein, incidentally , it is also stated that Draycote had already compounded with Ashbye to the latter's "full satisfaction" , and that

341 L.T.R., M.R. , E. 368/464, rot. 95

342 no part ofthese debts had actuallybeen paid into the Exchequer.34

An added interest attaches to the Draycote episode in thatitis seeminglythe earliest instance ofthe payment ofCrownservantsby the grant of recusants' forfeituresa practice widelyextendedinthe first seven years ofthe next reign.

7. Statementsofsheriffs' arrears. The separation ofthesheriff's recusancy account from his general account, regularised in the present year (1593), necessitated a separate recording of its audit This was done briefly and simply in the roll itself, by a method, traditionaltothe Pipe Rolls, in whichthe entrywearenowconsidering played a conspicuouspart.

It should first ofall be noticed that, ofthe various debts set forth in a countyaccount, the sheriff was responsible for collecting only those whichwere entered in the Summons of the Pipe, twice issued to him during his year of office.343 Not all the enrolled items were so entered. This we learn from the marginal note non in somonic[ione] ("not in the Summons"), often to be found in the Recusant Rolls after 1594 so frequently , indeed, as to make the omission probablyascribable, not to clerical negligence, but to an official decision to ignore the debt for the time being Otheritems (e.g. Wilts [4] in this roll), although entered in the Summons, bear no notes of payment or of shrieval action Here again it would seem that a temporary stay of proceedingswas ordered,344especially in cases where the Pipe Office is directed, by the marginal note scri[bendum], 345to continue the enrolment ofthe item in subsequent rolls References to the writ supersedeas (e.g. Bucks [3]), likewise more frequent after 1594, provide actual proof of the grantingof suchreprieves

In none ofthe above cases wouldfurther action bythe sheriffbe required. His standing charge (onus) would be confined by the auditors to the other debts enrolled, and for such of these as had been settled during the course of the year his personalacquittance was never separately recorded in the roll, but was regarded as implicit in the acquittance of the debtors themselves noted atthe

342 ... etproinde plene satisfecitipsum prefatumGulielmum Asshebye ... Whether this grant was confirmed by Elizabeth'ssuccessor has not been ascertained However, no reference to Draycote's recusancy appears in the R.R.s of James I until 1611, when two-thirds of his lands are recordedas having been seizedon 18 Mayof that year and immediately leased by the Crown for41 years to "John Pursall, esq." for a rent of £27-4-5 (E. 377/19 , Res' Staff').

343 Supra, pp Ixiv-v.

344 Information on such points, generally lacking in the Recusant Rolls, is occasionallysuppliedin the MemorandaRolls under Status et Visus Compotorum (States and Views of Accounts) For instance, in L.T.R. , M.R., E. 368/481, rot. 6, we learn, with reference to the entry Beds. [2] in our roll, that the sheriff Nicholas Luke was in fact discharged of the rent duefrom Lord Vaux'slands by a warrant of theLord Treasurer

345 Theformscribend' is found in E. 377/14, Adhuc ItemEbor'

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foot of the individual entries But for debts which still remained uncollected at the end of his year346 a special auditing procedure was reserved. These debts, having been onied, i.e. conditionally re-charged to him, werenow made the subject ofa separatearrears account and re-enrolled among the final items of the county ina special financial statement347. The general purpose of this entry will, itishoped, be clarified as we proceed For the moment we are concerned with its actual composition.

When complete, the "Statement of sheriff's arrears" has five divisions, the first three of which (A, B, and C in our analysis : see "Key to the Abstracts") relate to the preliminarywork ofthe auditors, viz the identifying of the particular debts and the calculation ofthe total deficit (the Summa). These three divisions, unlike the remaining two (D and E) alwaysappear intheir entirety. Division D, intended for later annotations describing the sheriff'scorresponding discharges (gained after such respites as the court had allowed him for this purpose), and divisionE, intended for details of his final settlement and acquittance, are rarely found to be completed. Howrarelythis was doneis exemplifiedinthepresentroll In only seven of the twenty-three Statements here displayed does the Quietusoccur 348 In the remaining sixteen, divisionD is either entirely omitted349 or present only in part350 (indicating that the time allowed for its completion had expired before the sheriff's settlement and final discharge could be registered), and division E contains, instead, a closing note ofdefermentto a laterroll351

346Acompleteclearance ofall hiscommitmentsbythat time was rarelyachieved . Only five sheriffs succeeded in doing so withinthe present year, viz . thoseof Bucks , Dorset, Kent, Rutland and Somersetwhose recusancy accounts were comparativelysmall.

347Supra, pp. lxvi-vii. One shouldpoint out that the only example ofthis type of entry occurring in the first Recusant Roll may be seen under Hampshire in C.R.S.XVIII, p 289 , 1. 35 seq

348 See Berks [11], Gloucs [8], Lincs [17], Northants [23], Shropshire [22], Suffolk [26] and Wilts [11].

349 SeeCambs [9], Cornwall [15], Derbys [8], Devon [7], Essex [18], Westmld[5] and Worcs [17].

350 SeeHants [27], Herefords [18], Mon. [4],Norf [31],Notts [8], Oxfords [17] Staffs [23], Surr . /Sussex [29] andYorks [43].

351It will be seen that for twelve counties in the present roll no "Statements" appear. In the case of the Palatinates (Cheshire and Lancs ) and Wales, the reason will be explained later (pp cvi seq). It is alreadyobviousin the case ofthe five countiesmentioned in note 346, where everydebt had been accounted for With regardto Beds , Leics and London/Middx, the smallness oftheir accounts maywell have beenthereason ButastowhyWarwicks., with its sizeable account , lacks all indication of an audit no satisfactory explanation can be offered There seems to be no doubt that its sheriff of this year was not charged to collect his recusancy dues (nor, according to the correspondingPipe Roll, was he charged therewith in his general account). Oddly enough, this apparentinertness continues for anothertwo years. Not until 1595 (E. 377/4) does the roll of this county beginto show signs of Exchequer activity regardingrecusants' debts.

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Nevertheless , even when incomplete, these latter sectionsremain the focal point ofour interest Fromthe dates given in division E , for instance, we can prove that it was an established Exchequer custom to keep the Statement open for annotations up to two years after the expiry of sheriffs' patents (throughout whichperiod the roll would doubtless remain in the custody of the auditors), i.e.,inthecase ofthe presentroll, until Michaelmas , 38 Eliz (1596)352 Again, a note ofdeferment in divisionE is ofimportance in that, if pursued, it leads us immediately to an entry setting forth these sheriff's arrears in the form of an ex-sheriff's debt , by means of whichtheir history can be followedthroughlater rolls (see below). The value of division D lies in the fact that we are therein informed ofthemanner in which, and the extent to which, the sheriff obtained -item byitemhis particulardischarges .

A study of division D in the Elizabethan series of Statements discloses three methodswherebysheriffs could be dischargedoftheir arrears of recusant debts These methods we may summarise as follows

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a) Bypost-audit paymentsinto the Receipt ofthe Exchequerof which an example occurs in the case ofJohn Grove's debt in the excerpt below .

(b) By the Treasurer's warrantfor "allowances" exhibited to the auditors by the accounting sheriff . It was customary in the Exchequer thus to reimburse a sheriff for personal expenses incurred in the course of official duties by deducting the amount from the total of his arrears (e.g. Lancs [142], postscript) 353 Similar reductions ofa sheriff's debt mightalso be allowed by the application ofsurplusesfrom other accounts 354 Evidence of such procedure, however, is seldom found in the Recusant Rolls 355

(c) By the transference ofthe charge to a later sheriffaproceeding, likewise traditional in the Exchequer, which was initiated by the sheriff's petition to a baron, accompanied by an affidavit that

352 Note forexamplethe date in division E ofthe (complete ) entry Lincs [17] This custom may well explain why the enrolling of estreats was regularly performedin rolls datedtwo years earlier than the estreats themselves No later rolls would seemingly have been availableto the estreatingclerks. Cf. infra, pp xcix-c, "Location ofentry"

353 The recusancy arrears of sheriff Roger Boddenham(Herefords [18]) were likewise diminished in 1597 by an allowanceof £6-13-8 for his expensesin conveying (named) prisoners from Hay and Hereford to Ludlow for the Assizes L.T.R. , M.R., E. 368/478, Status et Visus Compotorum : see also his "Ex-sheriff'sdebt" inR.R., E. 377/6, Heref'.

354 Thus in R.R., E. 377/8, Wiltes' it is recordedthat a surplus of£7-5-4 held byJohnStraker, farmer ofthelands oftherecusant Silvester Huysshe (Somerset [2]), was allowed in part-payment of the arrears of Edward Hungerford, sheriff of Wiltes Procedure in suchtransactions is described by Gilbert, op . cit., 153-5

355 The Memoranda Rolls (States and Views of Accounts) appear to indicate that allowances connected with the sheriff's recusancy business werealmost invariably appliedto thereduction of arrears in his general account

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the money could not be found. 356 The procedure was, first, to re-assign responsibility for the debt to the original debtor (the "tenants" , or the lessee, ofthe seized property) byinserting thesum as "further arrears" under the entry of the latter's farm in a subsequentroll, and then to put it in charge, by Summons ofthe Pipe, to the sheriff of that year. The formula used in recording this transferenceand the resultant dischargeofthe departing sheriff may also be seen in the cases of David and John Grove quoted below. This repeatedshiftingofthe burden of obstinate debtsfrom sheriff to sheriffin the hope of final settlement sometime by someonewas a frequent Exchequer practice Instances of it abound in the Recusant Rolls

Being the authoritativesummary ofthe sheriff's residual account and theintended locus ofhis final acquittance, the Statement represents (intheoryat least) the culmination ofthe Exchequer'sdealings with him, and high importance was officially attached to itas is indicated bythe artistic elaboration with which, as in the Pipe Roll prototypes, its initialletteris penned (see Frontispiece)

Throughoutthe present work, these entries, by reason of their excessively repetitive character, have been rendered mostlyinprécis. Their general form may be gathered from the following example (Wiltshire, entry [11]) 357

[A] Idem vicecomes videlicet Johannes Thynne armiger reddit compotum [B] de liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. quadrante pro tenentibus duarum parcium terrarum & tenementorum Johannis Grove Et. xij.l. pro tenentibus duarum parcium terrarum& tenementorum DavidGrove sicut supracontinetur [C] SUMMA lxv.l. vj.s. viij.d. quadrans [D] Sed tenentes resp- duarum parcium terrarum & tenementorum David Grove de ond- quibus oneratur supra de xij.l. respondent inde in rotulo sequenti in Wiltes' post firmam suam Et tenentes duarum parcium terrarum & tenementorumJohannis Grove de quibus etur 358

356 Gilbert, op cit , 157

857 Latin expanded . The letters in square backets refer to the analysis in the"Key" . 358 inMS (see examples in Frontispiece ). This shorthandsign, nowgenerally interpreted as comprising the first and last letters of the word respondetur ("it is answered" cf. p ciii, note 416), invariably occurs in the margin oppositeannotationsrecordingthe transference of the sheriff'sresponsibility for a debt . In this case, the charge is transferredtothe "tenants" . Usually found only in connection with "Statements of sheriffs' arrears" , the sign occasionallyappears elsewhere, e.g. alongside the annotationsto Lancs [93] and [97] in this roll (where the sheriff's responsibilityis passed to commissioners). As an auditors' memorandum , its importanceof course lies in the necessary implication that in regard to such debts the current sheriff is exonerated a fact towhichthe Quietus ofsheriffHutton (see p lxv, note247) bears witness , by the words Et exoneratur which are there actually prefixed to all items of this kind.

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resp- similiter oneratur supra de liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. quadrante respondond- ent in rotulo sequenti in Wiltes' post firmam suam dexxxv.l. etur xj.s. j.d. obolo inde Et in thesauro xvij.l. xv.s. viij.d. xxixno die Novembris anno xxxviijo de quibus oneratur supra infra quandam summam liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. quadrantis sub nomine Johannis Grove de solucione [E] Et habet superplusagium_de j.d. quadrantis quos remittit Regine. Et QuietusEst. (Translation)

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[A] The same sheriff, viz. John Thynne, esquire, renders an account [B] of £53-6-8 for the tenants of two [third] parts ofthe lands & tenementsof John Grove, and of£12 for the tenants of two [third] parts of the lands & tenementsof David Grove, as is contained above [C] Total : £65-6-8 . [D] But the tenants of two-thirds ofthe lands and tenements It is of David Grove, for whom he [sheriff] is charged above in the sum of £12 , [themselves ] answer for it in the next[Recuswered ant] Roll, under" Wiltes"" , after theirfarm.

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And the tenants of two-thirds of the lands & tenements of It is John Grove, for whom he [sheriff] is charged above in the sum of £53-6-81, [themselves ] answer for £35-11-1 thereof wered inthenext [Recusant] Roll, under" Wiltes"" , after theirfarm.

And on 29th November in the 38th year [of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1595)], £17-15-8, of the sum of £53-6-81 , for which he [sheriff] is chargedas above, was paid into the Treasury [of the Exchequer, and there entered] under the name of John Grove [E] And he [sheriff] has a surplus of 1d., which he remits totheQueen . And he [sheriff] is quit.

The purport of the above account is that John Thynne finished his year ofoffice still owing to the Crown a gross debt of£65-6-81 , due to be collected from two recusant itemsthe rents and arrears ofDavid and John Grove (Wilts [10] and [3]). £17-15-8 of this sum(covering one year's rentfrom the latter property) he collected and paid into the Exchequer on 29 November, 1595about a year after the inception of his final audit proceedings.359 With regard tothe remainder ofthe debt, he obtained, upon petition, a discharge, by being allowed to transfer responsibility for settlement to the tenants themselves , and thence to the next sheriff. Having thus cleared his account, he received his Quietus One should point out that ifthe above-mentioned payment of £17-15-8 be added to the payments noted beneaththe entries numbered 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in this Wiltshire section of the roll, it will be found that Thynne, who was clearly one of the more diligent sheriffs in this particular field, produced, in all, £150-9-11 for the Queen from the recusants ofhis county.

359 The dies datus for the accountingof the sheriffs ofWiltshire was20 October (threeweeks after Michaelmas ). Cf. p lxvi, note254 .

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The later history of the two transferred Grove debts shows several points of interest, and the tracing of them through the rolls affords us a useful glimpse of the system followed by the Pipe Office clerks. In its main aspects the course here describedis typicalofmany such cases . Turning to "the next roll, under 'Wilts'" (i.e. E. 377/3)- referred to in the quoted text abovewe discover that the re-enrolment of David Grove's lands now bears a note of permanent discharge, citing the L.T.R. Memoranda Roll of Hilary term , 37 Eliz. (1594/5).36 Thus both tenants and sheriff were speedily freed ofthe first debt (£12), and the entry does not reappear after this date. 361

A much longer career, however, awaited the second debt, viz. that of£35-11-1 due from the tenants ofthe lands ofJohn Grove . This, having been added, in the same "next roll" , to the rent (£17-15-6 ) for the current year, as "arrears for John Thynne, the late sheriff"-and joined with a further debt of £8 due from another propertymore recently seized from Grove362nowformed part ofa total debt of£61-6-8 . No payment was madeduringthat year (Mich 1594-5) by the tenants of either farm ; consequently bothitems were onied for the current sheriffEdward Hungerford , esq .and the debts entered as separate charges against him in his "Statement of arrears" , a further two years being allowed him in which to find the money or show "sufficient reason for his discharge" . He failed to do either, and, the barons having refused to transfer the debts to another sheriff, his Statement was closed with the note "And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 39 Eliz under Wilts" . (Mich 1597-8).

Continuing our search in this later roll (E . 377/6), we now find Hungerford's total arrears (£61-6-81) set forth as a separate entry among the rental items of the county accountin theform of an "Ex-sheriff'sdebt" (describedbelow) Herein, be it noted , Hungerford's name alone (not Grove's) is mentioned, and henceforth only under this guisewill the debt be recorded and traceable in the rolls. Sir James Marvin was the sheriff of this year, and Hungerford's

380 E. 368/478 , rot 145. Judgmentfor "removal of the Queen's hands" was given on the grounds that the lands were copyhold By a directive of the Judges (Recusant History, IV, p 194 (16)) the seizure of such lands was forbidden. The present item thus fixes an early date for this ruling

361 Other property of his was seized in 1598 (E. 377/7 , Wiltes'), but this again wasfound to be copyhold, and was likewise discharged David Grove, a copyholder of the manor of Marten, was apparently untouchable by process of this kind His goods indeedcould have been seized, but (oddly enough) there is no evidence of such proceedingsup to 1610 at least Whether he was prosecuted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners is of course not recorded here.

362 This was AshgroveFarm in DonheadSt. Mary, seized in 1591 and previously unrecordedin the Recusant Rolls

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debt, remaining unpaid, wasre-chargedto the formerat his auditin October, 1598. Marvin's "Statement of arrears" , however, shows him to have later raised, on his own account, the current rentfrom Grove's farms, whereupon he was allowed to transfer responsibility for Hungerford's debt and receivedhis Quietus, Hungerford himself (it is added) "answering for his debt in the roll of 41 Eliz., under " Wilts'" . The aboveprocedure accordingly recommencesin the last-mentioned Recusant Roll (1599-1600: E. 377/8) with the re-enrolment of Hungerford's "Ex-sheriff's debt" , which , still unpaid, was given in chargeto the current sheriff, WalterVaughan. Vaughan it was, apparently, who engineered the transfer of the Straker surplus already referred to, 363 thus reducing the debt by £7-5-4 to a total of £54-1-41 . In a similar way it then passed throughthe account of HenryBaynton (1602-3)-who for one year carried it within a similar debt of his ownuntil, still at that figure, itfinally reached the hands of John Hungerford, sheriffof 1605-6 (E . 377/14)

It was Grove himself who eventually called a halt to thesewearisome proceedings On 27 February, 1605/6, he solved everyone's problems by presenting himself before Henry Cotton, bishop of Salisbury, to make his submission, hear Divine Service and promise life-long religious conformity, "in due obedience to the King's Most Protestant Majesty,364 his heirs and successors" The final episode took place in the Exchequer at the end of Hilary term, 1606, when, producing the bishop's certificate, he petitioned for and obtained byjudgment of the court, a dischargeofall penalties due to his former recusancy, and the restoration of his lands, by virtue ofthe Act 1 James I, cap 4, §2.365 All that now remained to be done was to clear the Recusant Roll of these debts. This the annotator did in the last-mentioned one (E . 377/14 ; under "Item Wiltes' ") by adding beneath the eleven-year-old "Ex-sheriff's debt" of Edward Hungerford,366 and also beneath the current

363Supra, p lxxxix, note 354 .

364 This in sua debita obedientia Regie Protestantissime Maiestati striking phrase regularly occurs in formal records of submissionas given in the Memoranda Rolls An Elizabethan example (1601) is quoted in Biographical Studies, II, p. 126. It is noteworthy, however , that in the bishop's (English) certificate of conformity (always includedin the record) the phrase"the King's most excellent majesty" is substituted A doctrinal point would seemto be atissue here

365"AnAct forthedue executionofthe Statutes against Jesuits , Seminary Priests , Recusants etc." (1604)

366Actually this sheriff had been by no means indolent He had cleared allhis other recusancy debts during the course of his year

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re-enrolments of Grove's lands, the official note of acquittance, with a citation of the Memoranda Roll recording thecase. 367

Ex-sheriff's debts. From the foregoing facts we gather that this class ofentryisthe formula used in the Pipe Officefortherecording ofa post-audit deficit in a sheriff's account, and for the transmitting ofthat deficit, in terms ofa grosssum, throughsubsequentPipe, or Recusant, Rolls until the account was settled

The sixteen undischarged sheriffs of the present year (ending at Michaelmas, 1594) are those whose arrearage accounts are listed above 368 Division E of these Statements indicate that they were granted respites , in some cases , of one year (until Mich "37 Eliz. ": 1595), in other cases, of two years (until Mich "38 Eliz. ") afterthe completion of theirterms of office,for the personal clearing oftheir outstandingdebts.369 The Statements were then closed, and the existing balance against each sheriffwas immediatelyembodied , as an"ex-sheriff'sdebt" , inthe newroll openingat that date Thenceforthitwasbyway ofthis formalentrythatthe Exchequercontinued to deal with himno longer directly, but as with a privatedebtor, through the agency of a series of his successors in the shrieval office, whoin turn assumed temporary charge of the debt and could beempoweredto use the normal means ofcoercion against him for its settlement.370 Always containing (for Exchequer purposes) a referenceto the sheriff's original"Statement ofarrears"-ofwhich , in fact, it is a brief summarythe entryensuredthat the individual items constitutingits total would be kept under frequent review by later sheriffs, and enabled the Exchequer, amidst a welter of such debts, neverto lose sight of a single one ofthem Though diminutive in size , it formed an important link in the accounting scheme , and, as such, an appreciation of its functionsis essentialfor those whowould study therolls.

Sincethe sheriffs named in this roll arethe first to render separate accountsforrecusant revenue , itwill be understood thatno examples of the present type of entry will appear until the Recusant Rollof

367 L.T.R. ,M.R., 3 James I,Hilary Recorda (E. 368/522, rot 204) Thecircumstances ofJohn Grove's submission , as outlined in this record, seem to carry some interesting implications. A convicted recusant from April 1587 , his lands first seized in October 1588were found by two later commissions (1600 and 1601) to be actually copyholds Why, then, did he not (as did David Grove) plead his discharge on these grounds, instead of conforming? Was it because, in the midst of the PowderPlot scare, some considerable pressure was beingput upon him bythe Ecclesiastical authorities? There is clear evidence in the Recusant Roll of 1605-6 (E. 377/14 , Res' Wiltes') that Bishop Cotton (1598-1615) was an exceptionally energetic hunter of papists. In September 1605 (i.e. before the Plot) he headed the Exchequer Commission for the seizure of their lands in Wiltshire and was busily engaged in this work.

368Supra, p lxxxviii, notes 349 and 350 .

389 This period was seemingly never longerthan twoyears.

370 Cf. W.A. Morris , The MedievalEnglishSheriff to 1300 , pp. 256-7 .

1595-6 (37 Eliz.: E. 377/4) Therein we shall find the six earliest "Ex-sheriff's debts" relating solely to recusancy. They concern the present sheriffs of Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Essex , Herefordshire and Staffordshire, and are entered under their appropriate counties 371 Thenceforth entries of this kind are offrequent occurrence.

Their general form never varies. The following example from the 4th Recusant Roll372 shows the debt of ex-sheriff Thomas Lower(cf.Cornwall[15]in the presentdocument).

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Thomas Lower armiger nuper vicecomes [B] de anno xxxvto Reginehuius [C][debet]clxxj.l ij.s.j.d. [D] de pluribus debitis suis pro recusantibus [E] sicut continetur in rotuloxxxvtoin Cornubia [F] De quibus vicecomes respondetinfra [L. Margin] oni (Translation)

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Thomas Lower, esquire, latelysheriff [B] ofthe 35th year [of the reign] of the present Queen [C] [owes]373 £171-2-1 , [D] [being the total] of his various debts for recusants ; [E] as is contained in the [Recusant] Roll of 35 Elizabeth, under "Cornwall"

[F] For which the [current] sheriffanswers below . 374 [L.Margin] [The current sheriff]is charged, unless ... 375 Theparticularrecusantdebtsconstituting the total sum mentioned areneverspecifieduntil the time oftheirindividualdischargewhen they sometimesreappear in a postscript to a repetitionof the entry. Intheabovecase, forinstance, the debtduefromthelandsofElizabeth Arrundell (Cornwall [12], and [15] B) again comes to light in the 5th Recusant Roll, when her arrears of £6-13-4 are expressly eliminated from ex-sheriff Lower's charge376thus reducing his total debt to £164-8-9 . Further reductions were similarly recorded in the following years.

371To these must be added the ex-sheriff's debt of Sir John Seymorof Hants , 1592-3 , who was actually the earliestto render a separate recusancy account (cf. supra, p. lxxxviii, n 347) Those of the remaining ten sheriffs of the present year (ibid., notes 349 and350) appear in the following roll (38 Eliz. : E. 377/5).

872 Latin expanded . The letters in square brackets refer to the analysis in the "Key" .

373 Space leftin MS for the word debet (owes): cf. pp. Ixiv, xcix. Not duefor insertion until after the chargingof the current sheriff, it was often omitted , apparentlythrough negligence Under James I, however , it was commonly inserted .

374 I.e. in his "Statement of arrears"

375 These two annotations (division F) are regularly added, at every re-enrolment, untilthesheriff-debtoris finallydischarged .

376 Therecordcited for this discharge is L.T.R., M.R., 37 Eliz., Mich. , Recorda (E. 368/481, rot 165) Incidentally, it states that the petitioner was a "John Arundell, esq " , who was allowed amoveas manus on 18 Oct. 1595 , having satisfied the court that Cregmorickeactually belonged not to Elizabeth, but to him . No further information is given regardingthe identity or relationship ofthese twopersons.

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Thomas Lower, still owing £87-15-8 of his original debt in 1612,377Iproves to have been byfar the most dilatory ofthe sheriffs who took office in the present year.378 Delays of several years were nevertheless quite common The number and durationofexsheriffs'debtsinthe RecusantRolls indicate the difficultyexperienced by the Exchequer, despite a vastamount ofoffice-work meticulously performed, in exacting financial penalties during this period.

8. Enrolments of estreatedconvictions It has been pointed out above that the recording of the year's business ended with the Statementofthe sheriff's arrears. The RecusantRolls, however, are not merelya series ofsheriffs' accounts: they served also as registers of recusants' convictionsa function in no way connected (as we shall see) with the business ofthe current year or with the sheriffs under whose accounts the convictions are enrolled These lists ofconvictions provided the new material upon whichtheExchequer concentrated at a later date in the work of property-seizure , their enrolment being an essentialprelude to such futureaction.

Form . In Section II of the statute of 1587-6 it was laid down that " every conviction [for recusancy] hereafter . . . shall, from the Justices before whom record of such conviction shall remain, be estreatedand certified into the said Court of Exchequer before the end of the term next ensuing after every such conviction ... " As delivered into the Exchequerfrom the local courts , 379 the certified abstracts known as "estreats" (see p xxiii) listed the convicted recusants of each countyin groups according to thedate of conviction , stating, after the first person mentioned, the main particulars contained in their annotated indictmenttheperiod of recusancy, the date of conviction and the fine incurred . 380 As afterwards enrolled by the Exchequer clerks, the estreats, between the years 1581 and 1587, had been mere copies of the actual certificates sent in by the Justices . An example from the Pipe Roll of 23 Eliz. may be Englished thus : Richard Lingen, latelyofDormingtonin the countyofHereford , esq., [owes] £60, because he, being abovethe age ofsixteenyears, did not repairto hisparish church, nor toany other church,chapel or usual place of common prayer and service from 22 Sept., 24 Eliz. [1582] to 5 Jan. next following, viz. for the spaceofthree months, but forbore the same, wherefore he was convicted at Hereford Assizes on Thursday, 7 March, 25 Eliz [1583].381

377 Cf. E. 377/17 . Cornwall was always one of the least remunerativeareas in the matter ofrecusant rents

378 Francis Stonard (Oxfords [17]), his closest competitor in this respect, obtainedhis quittancein 1607 .

379Supra, p lviii

380 Recusant convictions were also entered in local court-books of "Fines, Amercementsand Recognisances forfeited and assessed" , many of which still survive in county archives A late example in transcribed in C.R.S. , XXXIV, Introd., p. lii

381 E. 372/427 , Res' Hereford' .

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After 1587 , however, although the estreats on arrival retained the same simple form, their Exchequer enrolments became notably more elaborate, embodying additional matter relevant to the requirements of the statute of that date. With the exception of certain items under London/Middlesex, this new form is universally exhibited in the presentroll. The following example gives the first two items ofthe Essex list (entry[19]) 382

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Johannes Moore de Layghton in comitatu Essex' generosus [B] (space for debet) [D] clx.1 . [F] videlicet cxx.l. inde [G] virtute Actus praedicti [H] quia non accessit ad aliquam ecclesiam capellam vel alium locum usualem communis precacionis ( [J] ad aliquod tempus infra sex menses integros proxime sequentes vicesimum diem Decembris anno xxxvijmo Reginehuius [L] Et xl.l. residuum [M]adie Jovisxxvjto383 die Februarii anno xxxviijvo quo die convictus fuit [N] usque xxijdumdiem Aprilis extunc proxime sequentem scilicet pro duobus mensibus [O] Eo quod ipse non fecit submissionem et devenit confirmabilis 384 secundum veram intencionem Actus Parliamenti de anno xxiijcioeiusdem Regine in huiusmodi casu editi et provisi Radulphus Worsley de Dagenhamin comitatupredictogenerosus alias dictus Hugo Worsley de eadem generosus (space for debet) clx. 1. pro consimili [P] [L. Margin]fiat commissio

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[A] John Moore of Layghton in the county of Essex , gentleman, [B] (space for owes) [D] £160, [F] to wit, £120 thereof [G] by virtue of the aforesaid Act, [H] because he did not attend any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer [J] at any time within six full months nextfollowingthetwentieth day ofDecember in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of the present Queen , [L] and the remaining £40 for the period from [M] Thursday , the twenty-sixth day of February, 38 Eliz., on whichday he was convicted, [N] until the 22nd day of April next following, i.e. for two [lunar] months, [O] because he did not make submission and become conformable according to the true meaning of an Act of Parliament of the 23rd year of the reign of the same Queenin a like case madeand provided Ralph Worsley of Dagenham in the aforesaid county, gentleman, otherwise called Hugh Worsley of the same, gentleman, (spacefor owes) £ 160 for the like [offence]. [P] [L. Margin] Let a commissionbe issued .

382 Latinexpanded The letters in square bracketsrefer to the analysis in the "Key" .

383 Sic, for"xxvto" .

384 Sic, for"conformabilis"-an habitual error in these enrolments(cf. wording ofthe statuteof 1586-7 , §§IIIand IV).

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Thus the construction of post-1587 enrolled estreatsis so devised asto include not merely the fine statedin the originalcertificate, but also the additional fine (at the same rate of £20 a month) which wasimposed insection IV ofthe recent statute for persistentrefusal, afterconviction, ofthe proffered dischargein returnforsubmission and conformity. 385

Letus firstobserve , therefore, that these additional"1587"penalties were applied and recorded not by the Justices before whom the recusant was convicted, but by the Exchequer authorities Other facts to be inferred from the enrolled estreats in this and later rolls may be brieflystated as follows.

(a) The work of recasting the estreats was performed onlyinthe terms of Easter and Michaelmas . 386

(b) The extent ofthe recusant's further period ofnon-compliance was reckoned by the number of lunar months (28 days) which had elapsed between his conviction and the date in Easter (or Michaelmas) term chosen for the enrolment of the estreat 387 Both (a) and (b) are firmlyestablishedby the data in divisions MandN.

(c) From the dates of conviction (division M) we gather thatthis new form ofenrolment was reservedexclusively for estreatsissuing from the general assizes388 and from other courts whose estreats likewise came to hand at convenient times for Exchequer recasting at Easter and Michaelmas Many of the estreats from the gaoldelivery sessions of Newgate, London, did not do so, and were copied without alteration into the roll 389 The same applies to estreatsfrom sessions of the peace of all counties after 1606.390

(d) Recusant Rolls of the 17th century show, however, that recasting, even of estreats sent in from the assizes, was sometimes omitted especially in cases where conviction had not followed immediately after the period ofthe offence The existenceofsuch exceptionsindicates that the explicitstatementtherein ofthe "1587" penalties was not regarded by the Exchequer as prerequisite to the

385 Cf. divisions L, M, N, and O in our analysis

The words "accordingto the true meaning ... " (in division O) refer to the interpretation given to §§V and X of the statuteof 1581 by §§ IV andVIof the statuteof 1586-7to the effect that thefinesare nowto be regarded as running on until submission and conformity, but that a discharge may be obtained by submission and conformity, even after conviction (supra, pp xxiv, xxix-xxx, xxxiii-iv; xxvi)

386 Forthe dates of the law terms see pp xxvii-viii

387 Thusthe date22 April 1596 in division N of the above example will beseen to be the 56th day (two lunar months) after the stated date of conviction (26th Feb.). In Recusant History, IV, 186, the datein division N is wrongly said to be the day on which the estreat was despatched to the Exchequer . It could in fact have been sent in at any time before or during Easter term

388 Supra, pp. xxviii-ix.

389 Ibid The NewgateGaol-deliveryestreats, entered in the present roll under London/Midd' [3], show examples of both forms of enrolmentdepending onthe date ofthe sessionsatwhichtheconviction was recorded

390 Cf. p. xxiii, note72

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levying of them, but was merely a token acknowledgment of the implications of the Act As Hawkins argues, these additional accumulative fines were not strictly "of record" . 391

Purport As will already be obvious, the enrolled estreats are not records offine-payments.392 It is maintained above (p. lx) that after 1587 they were regarded by the Exchequer merely as records of certified recusant convictions, enrolled in preparation for an immediate issue of process for property-seizurethe latter being now the statutory penalty facing every recusant who had failed (as hadallthe personsinthese lists) to pay theirfinesat the stipulated time. This interpretationreceives further support from the omission of the word debet (owes), for whicha blank space is regularly left in the MS (see division B in our analysis)-indicating thatthe fines mentioned are actually uncharged debts, and therefore not due for levying by the current sheriff. 393 In fact, no such shrieval action was involved until at least a year later, when, the process of commission having resulted in the seizure and enrolment of the recusants' possessions, the Summonsof the Pipewasissued demanding the collection, not of the fines, but of the rents and other dues consequent upon such seizure : by which time another sheriff was in office. The debet in the estreat meanwhile remained conspicuous by its absence It was indeed never inserted unless the recusant either discharged the debt by paying the actual fine, thus beginning a series of annual fine-payments,394 or wasexcusedfrom allliabilityupon plea in the court of Exchequerin whichcases the wordwas addedat the same time as the annotation ofdischarge,to completethe record395

The above evidence clearly demonstrates the dissociation ofthe listed estreatsfrom the current account ofthe roll 396

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The latterconclusion is furthermorestrikingly corroborated bythe discrepancybetweenthe date oftheconvictions given in the estreats(divisionM) and that of the roll in whichthey are entered. It was precisely because the estreats, as such, in no way affected the sheriff's charge that the clerk was free to inscribe

391Pleas ofthe Crown, I, ch 10, sect 56. Actually, of course , the fines "ran on for ever till conformity" (supra, p xxx), and were not limited to the extra monthsmentionedin the enrolment

392 Such items were separately enrolled, and always bear the annotation of payment See "Recordof annualfines paid" (supra, pp lxxxiv-vii).

393 the Sheriff was not to levy any estreats beforethey were brought in charge bythe Summons of the Pipe" Gilbert, op. cit , 116. Cf. supra, p lxiv

394 See John Southcote'sfirst paymentin R.R. , E. 377/5, Essex'. Subsequent annual payments were of course enrolledin the formshownon p. lxxxv .

395 A recorded discharge would have been meaningless unless it cancelled a recorded charge. Examples of this procedure are fairly common in the present roll, e.g.Devon [8] and Essex [19] (Margaret Terryll's estreat) We should here observe that this annotating was performed on all enrolled estreats of the recusant's previousconvictions, even (as in the latter example ) after the lands had been seized

396 This important featureof the estreats is referredto on p. xcvi

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them in any convenient roll Curiously enough, the roll chosen wasusually ofa date two years earlier than that ofthe conviction , 397 so that in the present document the convictions are nearly all of the year 1595-6. One can only surmise the reason for the consistency of this choice. It may be suggested that the contemporary roll and its predecessor were normallyretained by the auditors for work in connection with the clearing of sheriffs' accounts, and were not available, during that time, to the engrosserof the estreats. 398 Whatever the reason, the fact emerges that the date of the roll in whichanestreatis enteredis itselfofno particular historical significance

This is a point to be borne in mind when investigating the Exchequer history of a convicted recusant Having discovered an enrolled estreat relating to the subject of his study, the searcher , ignoring the date of the roll, should concentrate his attention on the date of conviction mentioned inthe estreat, and, allowinga full year fortheissue and returnof process, begin his questfor evidence of further Exchequer action in the roll of the second Exchequer year following that date. Hereinif proceedingsforsequestration had been carried out with promptitudehe might expect to find the first enrolment of the recusant's lands and/or goods. From what has been said above it will be clear that the roll marked out for examination with regard to most of the estreatsin the present document is that of 1597-8.399 Search ought not, however, to be confined to the countyunder which the estreat was entered This is especiallyimportantinthe case ofestreats enrolled under London/ Middlesex, where recusants with seizable estates in other counties were often convicted while staying at their Townlodgings. Several examplesoccur in the presentrollofa conviction in Londonoriginating a land-seizure in the provinces 400 The London/Middlesex estreatsare therefore always well worthy ofthe student's attention, whatever thelocale of hisinterest

General comments It must be said, however, that many disillusionments await the explorer of the Recusant Rolls Of the majority ofestreatsin our document, for instance, I can find only a handful (in Somerset, Wilts and Norfolk) which came duly to

397 Fouryears earlierin the caseof George Easton(Somerset [4]) Ontheother hand, Yorkshire estreats in the present roll give convictionswhich are ofan earlier date than the roll In this they are quite exceptional An attempt seems to have been made in 1600 (E. 377/8) to enter estreats uniformlyin thecontemporaryroll, but theold anomalysoon recommencedand persisted thereafter

398 Cf.p lxxxix, note 352

399 I.e. 39-40 Eliz (E. 377/6).

400 See the annotations to the estreats relating to William Gerrard and John Robertson (London/Midd' , [3]) ; see also the place of residence mentioned in entries Cornwall [5], Devon [4] and Essex [16] Francis Plowden's penalty(Berks, [6] and Salop[15])was likewisedue to a conviction inLondon; cf. C.R.S.XVIII, p. 145 .

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fruitionin the roll of 1597-8.401 There is in fact ample evidence that seizureofpropertyby no means inevitablyensued . Thenames ontheselists,incertain counties and duringperiods ofmore intense watchfulness , 40 402 run into thousands Many commissions indeed were issued , each with its annexed list of cases to be investigated, but it would seem that the Exchequer, overwhelmed by so great a harvest, omitted from the schedules vast numbers of available recusants. Moreover (and this applies to all periods), manywhose names the Exchequer included in the schedules were eliminated , after inquiry, by the jurors' verdicts Thus, in 1589, a jury in the West Ridingof Yorkshire , having been handeda list of46 recusants for investigation, reported to the commissioners that only 14 of them had seizableproperty, the remaining 32 "being seised ofno lands nor possessed ofany goodsto our knowledge"-a suspiciously sweepingverdict , which was nevertheless allowed to pass.403 We may therefore safely infer that a considerable number of the less notorious or less wealthy recusants in this way escaped further attention from the Exchequer, even after the inquisitions had been carried out An estreated conviction may thus quite frequently turn out to bethe only type of referenceto a recusantdiscoverable in the rolls.

Nevertheless, an enrolled estreat, evenifnot scheduledfor inquiry by a commission, represented an abiding threat to the recusant's possessions, and since it was not uncommon for offenders to be repeatedly convicted and enrolled before proceedingsfor seizure of propertywere begun, one ought notto abandon too soonthe search for evidence of this later development

A remarkable example of delayed Exchequer action is to be seen in the case of the recusant yeoman, John Cherington of Edgmond (Shropshire [24]), whose story is told at considerable length in the Memoranda Roll of Hilary term 1646/7404 cited in the postscript beneath his enrolled estreat (p. 151). The son and heir-apparent of a non-recusant , Cherington was convicted for recusancy on no fewer than eight occasions between 1594 and 1607 before a commission wassent out to assess and seize his lands 405 The seizure, in fact, did not take place until October, 1624406after he had succeeded to thefamily

401 Property-seizure in some cases may have been delayed Later rolls have not been exhaustivelysearched on this point

402 E.g.Yorks andLancs. , atthe end ofElizabeth'sreignand aftertheyear1605

403 L.T.R. , M.R., E. 368/456, rot 11v Some of the above 32 persons, however , were notsofortunate at a later inquiry

404E. 368/667 , rot 4.

405 Situated in Cherrington (Edgmond parish), Tibberton and Waters Upton, Shropshire

406 Cf. R.R. ,E. 377/33 , Salop' .

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estate and it was done by reason of these twenty-year-old convictions.407 The tenacity ofthe Exchequer in dealing with persistent disobedienceis here wellillustrated. While the enrolled estreats of conviction are of considerable historicalinterest and provide reliable evidence oftherecusancy of thepersonsconcerned, they need to be studied with circumspection. Christiannames may possibly be erroneous 408 Corruptspelling of surnames is common Place-names are often hardly recognisable Defects of this kind, no doubt traceable to the shortcomings of originalinformants and the reticence of the personsaccused, are of course common in records of this character and period, and need cause little surpriseespecially when it is realised that by the time they reached the Recusant Roll they were at least fourth-hand copies 409 There is no reason to think that these recusant estreats are abnormally inaccurate. That factual accuracywas, in general, striven for by the framers of the original indictments is shown , for instance , by the presence of aliases or alternative names in several estreat-lists in thisroll.410

Finally, a note on the not-infrequent coupling of thedesignation "spinster" with that of "wife".411 It should be remarked that before the 17th century "spinster" signified simply"a spinner of wool" ,not"an unmarried woman" (cf. O.E.D.). The combination "spinsteruxor" in Elizabethan records therefore carries no necessary implication of a clandestine marriage 412

9. Annotations. The official annotations or postscripts to the roll are of two kinds, marginal and textual, and may be found in connection with any type of entry except the Preambles. All are fully translated in the present work, with the exception of those occurring in Statementsofsheriffs' arrears, where an abridgment is given

407 The record shows that having died in 1642 he was buried in Chedulton parish church (Staffs) on 8 Oct., of that year, and was succeeded by his grandson, anotherJohn Cherington, who now(on 11 Feb. 1646/7 : 22 Car I) successfully petitioned the Exchequer to "remove the King's hands" from his lands on the evidence of an affidavit signed by a "John Cherrington of Parkhouse , Staffs gent'" to the effect that this grandson"ever was and still is conformableto the Religion established in the Church of England" .

408 "Theymay be indicted by such names as theyare known, if other names be not found" (PracticeDirections of the Judges : quotedin Recusant History, IV, p 193, no 1)

409 Originating usually as churchwardens ' presentments , they were copied successively by engrossers of indictments, by writers ofestreats at the assizes andby clerks in theExchequer .

410 Seethose of Essex, Hants , Staffs , Somerset, Suffolk and Worcs

411 Examples may be seen in the estreat-lists of Hants., Lancs., London/Middx, Mon., Salop, Somerset, Surr/Sussex, Wilts andWorcs in this roll

412 Non-recusant instances of this combination are to be found elsewhere : e.g. Cal Patent Rolls, 1563-6, nos. 2365 and 2670

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The comparatively scarce marginal annotationswritten to the left of the entries and for the most part in a cursive handappear to have been penned during the final audit of the account, and consist of briefmemoranda of those proceedingsfor the guidance ofthe Clerk and Controllerofthe Pipe The most prevalent notes ofthis kind are the oni or oni de anno 13 relating to rents, forfeited goods and ex-sheriffs' debts; and, in the case of estreats, the fiat commissio . 414

Textual annotations, added subsequently to the marginalia , constitute the official minuting of the roll and are engrossed , in formal Pipe Office script, beneath the items to whichtheyrefer415_ unless the note covers a number of consecutive items, when a bracket on the right-hand side of the rotulet was contrived forthe purpose, as in the Cheshire and Lancashire sections of this roll. The most frequently occurring note is the simple cross-reference de quibus vicecomes respondet infra ("for which the sheriffanswers below"), linking an onied debt with its "answer"416 intheStatement ofthe sheriff'sarrears.

The main purpose of textual annotations, however , was the registering of discharges These could be occasioned by a variety of circumstances: for instance, tenants or occupiers of seized lands might be discharged of direct responsibility for the rents by the appointment of an official lessee (e.g. Berks [7]) ; one lessee might be dischargedin favour of another (Lancs [17]) Ofgreater interest are the records of annual discharges by reason of rent-or fine-payment (Berks [8] ; Bucks [4])417 Such notes are always prominentlydisplayed in bold handwriting , and are evidently the work of a specially appointed clerk418 Here, it will be noticed, the Quietus Est is not added unless the payment completely correspondsto the recorded debt : part-payments ofrent often appear, e.g. Bucks. [2]. The facts stated in annotations of payments are drawn from the authoritative records of the Exchequer ofReceipt

418 Cf. supra, pp lxvii, lxxxviii, xcii

414Supra, p lxii Acourtorder forthe issue ofthewrit supersedeasis notedunder Bucks [3], and Surrey/Sussex [18] and [19]. The Latin form of other incidentalmarginalia will be found in the editor's "notes to the text" under Cheshire, Kent, Lancs., Norfolk, Northants., Shropshireand Staffs Regarding the note scri' , see p. lxxxvii , note 345. The meaningofthe sign is referredto at p xc, note 358 Fr

415Whereforethe engrosser of the rolls always left a wide space between each entry

416It should be noticed that in such Exchequer contexts the word respondet has the sense of"is held responsible " or "assumes responsibilityfor" . It bears no necessaryimplication ofactualpaymentmade.

417 Forthe formof this annotation see p. lxxviii, note 302 .

418 Possibly a Secondary of the Clerk of the Pipe The Et Quietus Est , one observes , is invariably in the same hand as the rest ofthenote.

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and may be traced in the still intact Receipt Books ofthe Clerk of the Pells . 419

A discharge might also be attributable to the partial or total cancellation of debts, in which case the annotation always includes a reference to the original record In partial cancellations the L.T.R. Books of Orders and Decrees420 are sometimes cited (e.g. Leics [2]), but more frequently the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls (Hants. [26] ; Herefords. [3]). Annotations of total cancellation, implying a permanent cessation of all liability, invariably cite the Memoranda Rolls, and are noteworthy as guides to important entries therein (see below) Remarkable for their brevity, the latter notes have a constant and recognisable form, the Latin of which isexemplified in that under Dorset [4]. This runs as follows : Sed non debent inde summoneri nec de eadem firma de cetero onerari per considerationem Baronum annotatam in Memorandis ex parte RememoratorisThesaurarii de anno xxxvjto Regine huius videlicetinter Recorda de termino Sancte Trinitatisrotulo [blank]421 EtQuietiSunt

Signifying in probably the majority of instances the submission and conformity of the recusant or of the succeedingheir, 422 and heralding the disappearance of their names from the Recusant Roll, forty-three annotations ofthisform may be seeninthepresent documentthirteen occurring under rental items, the rest under

419 P.R.O., series E. 401/1, 794-2,279 (period 1559-1834) See Guide (1963), I, p 97. These manuscriptbooks, each coveringa half-yearlyperiodbeginning at Easter or Michaelmas, contain copies of the original Tellers' notes (Bills) relating to items of revenue paid to them in the Exchequer of Receipt, including sums received from recusant sourcesfines, rents and forfeited goods. The recusant's name and abode are regularly mentioned; likewise, in items of rent-payment, the "accountant" (the debtor by whom , or for whom, the money was paid), viz the "tenants" , or the Crownappointed lessee Occasionallythe sum is entered under the name of the sheriffhimself,or of the lessee'srepresentative or assignee Such exceptional entries in the Receipt Books are (for the guidance of Exchequer clerks) usually notified in the Recusant Rolls by a parenthesis withinthe annotation ofpayment , e.g. "underthe name (sub nomine) ofSir Humphrey Foster ,knt., sheriff" (Berks. [7]) : "under the name of Richard Ward" (Berks. [2]) Tempore Elizabeth and James I thefinal pages of the volumes have a useful summaryof the recusant contents , under the title De recusantibus accedere ad ecclesiam .

420 Cf."Entry Books of Orders" , E. 369/99-116 (Guide (1963), I, 75 ; "Miscellaneous Books: L.T.R. and Pipe Office"). Of these, unfortunately, the earliest survivalis dated 35 Car II(1683).

421 The number of the particular rotulet of the Memoranda Roll on which the case is to be found is invariably omitted, but may be ascertained from contemporary"repertories " or indexes to these rolls, preserved atP.R.O.

422 Cf."Inherited debts" , supra, p xlii (b) Of several references of this kind actually tracedfromthe present roll into the MemorandaRolls I have found only one (Shropshire [15]) showing a petition based on a technical defect in the original proceedings (Cf. p xxv, note 76) Under James I (upto 1611) many will be found to refer to petitions brought by grantees of recusants' lands inorder toobtain unencumbered possession thereof (cf. p lxviii, n 261)

enrolled estreats.423 It should be observed that since the date of the Memoranda Roll stated in the annotationidentifies for us, in each case, the date of the discharge, we are able to ascertain that only fifteen (i.e. those under the rental items, plus two inscribed in the precedingroll424) relate to discharges granted duringthe current Exchequeryear (35-36 Eliz ) and are due to takeeffectimmediately. The presence of many similar annotations in other Recusant Rolls is also indicated herein by cross-referencessuch as that under the estreat ofMargaret Terryll in the list, Essex [19].425

Recusant cases in the L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls Morefrequently referred to than any other source, the "Recorda" sections of these rolls contain, inter alia, authoritative statements of proceedings relating not only to the seizure ofrecusant property(see p lxxiv), but also, as noted above, to the cancellation of such seizures and the surrender of royal claims in regard to them, wherein may be foundthe details ofsuccessful "petitions ofright"426 sued, inperson or by an attorney, before the barons in the Exchequer Court of Revenue The record ofeach case is formal in pattern and expression, and invariably opens witha summary ofthe recusant's various convictions and a recapitulation of the proceedings leading up to the seizureofhis property Thenfollow a statement ofthe grounds, with supporting evidencepresentedbythe petitioner, forthe claimed discharge ; his formal plea in abatement, checked and approved by the Attorney General ; and, finally, the judgment of the court freeing the propertybyan award of"removal ofthe Queen'shands" freeing the property by an award of "removal of the Queen's hands"427 and discharging the petitioner of penalties incurredunder the recusancy laws In cases where the claim is based purely on the recusant's personal submission to the ecclesiasticalregulations a request is addedtempore Elizabethfor his inclusion in the Queen's General Pardon (p. xxvi), and the recordusually contains a transcript of the necessarycertificate or affidavit of conformity The evidence noted inthesereports often discloses facts ofconsiderable interest about the recusant and his family, not to be found elsewhere . The L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls , intact for the whole recusancyperiod and available for consultation at the Public Record Office,428 prove to be a valuable and largely unexplored field of inquiry forthe student ofrecusanthistory.

423 In those occurring under estreats and forfeited goods the phrase nec de eadem ... onerari is always omitted (since in such items the recordeddebt is a single sum, not an annuallyrecurringrent.)

424 Essex [11]andWorcs [9] : cf. C.R.S.XVIII, pp 115, 360

425 Total cancellations were thus noted not merely beneath the current item but also (mostly by cross-reference) under the recorded debts of the same recusant in previousrolls

426 Cf.Wharton, LawLexicon(11thedition), s.v. "Monstransde droit" .

427 Amoveas manus regine (or ouster le main). Wharton, loc. cit

428 Series E. 368.

B. THE PALATINATES AND WALES

Certain peculiarities in the Elizabethan Exchequer's method of dealing with these areas are reflected in the rolls and require special comment.

Of the three Counties Palatine, both Cheshire and Lancashire show separate accounts in the Recusant Rolls of this reign, the former irregularly, the latter regularly but often incompletely. The Durham accounts are incorporated with those ofYorkshire, 429 and never receive separate enrolment except during the period 1652-1660.430

Self-governing in pre-Tudor days, the Palatinates had been deprived after 1 July 1536 of much of their independent judicial power431 andDurham alone offeringany determined resistancebegan to be assimilated for all practical purposes to the rest ofthe countryin bothlawand administration Bythe close ofElizabeth's reign onlythe empty forms ofancient autonomy remained. In the matter ofrecusancy, for instance, free access and localco-operation were demanded and obtainedin the 1590s, even from Durhamfor Exchequer-appointed officials executing royal writs ofcommissionto seize thepropertyofconvicted offenders, and these proceedings were carried out in the same way as in other countiesas is indicated in the numerous enrolments of lands and goods in the Palatinate sections of the Recusant Rolls. Likewise, the levying of recusant debts was made the duty of palatine sheriffs, as it was elsewhere . Nevertheless, such special procedural traditions as still lingered seem to have been studiously respected by the Elizabethan government.432 Sheriffs continued to beappointed bythe local authorities, and all correspondence between Westminster and the Palatinates regarding the collection of Crown revenue was addressed , not individually to the sheriffs, but under the form of precepts to the chief administrative officials ofthese counties433the Chamberlain of Chester , the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster434 and the

429 The present roll containsonly two Durham items : Yorks [31] and [42].

430Cf. G. T. Lapsley , The CountyPalatineof Durham (1900), pp 299-300

431 By the "Act of Resumption" , 27 Henry VIII, c 24. Cf. G. Barraclough, The Earldom and County Palatineof Chester (1953) ; R. Somerville, The Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster (Transactionsof the Historic Societyof Lancs and Cheshire , vol CIII(1951))

433 Cf.Act 5 Eliz, c 23 , §xi

433SeemarginalannotationsintheCheshire and Lancs accounts inthe present roll (givenintheeditor's notes tothetexts), i.e.fi[eri]fa[cias] Camerar [io] Cestr[ie], fi'fa' Cancellar [io] Ducat[us] Lanc[astrie] In the next roll, and thereafter, Durham items regularly bear the similar annotationfi'fa' Ep[iscop]o Dunolm[ensis] "[Issue]afierifacias to theBishop of Durham" In the above cases this writ bade the recipients see that their sheriffs executed attached orders regardingthe levying of specific statutory forfeitures of recusants' goods as found by the commissioners

434 The County Palatine of Lancaster was (and is) part of the Duchy, which appointed, paid and controlled the officers ofthecounty.

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Bishop ofDurhamwho were required to pass on the demands of theroyal Exchequer to their sheriffs under the palatine seals

More noteworthyis the continued exemption of the sheriffs from accounting for Crown revenue before the Westminster Exchequer barons. The fact is clearly indicated in the Elizabethan Memoranda Rolls,435 and explains the omission in the relevant sections of the Recusant Rolls of all the usual signs of a sheriff's "apposal"-the Preamble, the Statement ofsheriff's arrears, the marginal oni. Durham, in 1635, claimed this exemption as an ancient palatine right. 436 The procedure actually followed is obscure, but each of these counties had its own exchequerand it is not unlikelyBurghley having originally consigned recusancy business to "ancient" pro- cedures437thattheirsheriffsatthisperiod accountedforsuchrevenue before the local barons and auditors, the palatine receivers afterwards conveying the audited statements and the money to Westminster. Moreover , since no recusant material has been found of an earlier date than 1627 among the records of accounts declared, in the new Tudor manner, 438 before the Auditors of the Land Revenue, it seems probable that after the money had beenpaid into the Receipt of the Exchequer by the said receivers, the audited statementsofaccount were immediately delivered bythem on oath for examination in the office of the Queen's Remembrancer, and werethence passed to the L.T.R. sideforenrolment intheRecusant Roll by the Pipe Office clerks. Such a procedure might well

435Sheriffsofthe Palatinates (and Wales) are at this period invariably omitted in the Adventus Vicecomitum and Dies dati lists (relating, respectively , to the biannual "proffering" of sheriffs, and to the audit of their accounts) as set forthin theMemorandaRolls of both Remembrancers

436S.P. 16/302, no 6. According to this document (dated 1635) the sheriffs of the other Palatinates were by that time accountingat the WestminsterExchequer "as other sheriffs do" Durham, however , still held out, and it was agreed that in future sheriffs of the Bishopric should account locally before the Crown "Auditor in his circuit" This method was maintained until 1652 cf. Pipe Roll, 1651-2 (E. 372/496, Durham), and Lapsley , loc cit.

437 Supra, p lix

438 Guide (1963), I, 46-7. Most of the fiscal duties ofthe sheriffs had by 1515 been assigned toCrown-appointedReceivers General Bythenew Exchequer system, originating under Henry VII as a more expeditious method of dealingwith the public revenue, and widely developed under Henry VIII for his Court ofAugmentationsandGeneral Surveyors (ibid , I, 80-3), the revenue wasgathered and the accounts auditedlocally by Crown officers on circuit, who, on theirreturn to Westminster, "declared" (explained) the accountsto Auditors of the Exchequer and paid the money directly into the King's coffers . The Court of Augmentations was abolished by Mary and its finances handed over to the old Exchequer , but under Elizabethmany of its methods were continued and thenceforth functioned alongside the "ancient course" until c 1629 , when (on the evidence of the Recusant Rolls) a merger ofthe two systems appears to have been effected (ibid , pp 70-1 , 89) Itis important to noticethat theconsigningofallrecusant revenue to the"ancient course" in 1582 was largely responsiblefor the continued existence of that moribundinstitution

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explain the existence of the entries Cheshire [13]-[21], and Lancs. [142] in the present document . 439

Variant features, however, distinguish procedure in each county. The Chancellor ofthe DuchyofLancasterhad his Chamber actually at Westminster, adjoining the royal Exchequer, and it would presumably have been there that his sheriff, receiver and auditor assembled for the accounting Durham, also, had a peculiar arrangement whereby the sheriff of Yorkshire acted as receiver of all revenue collected by the palatine sherifffrom the recusants of that county440_whence, no doubt, arose the practice of entering Durham items among those ofYorkshirein the Recusant Rolls.

While the true extent of recusancyin the Bishopric of Durham does not begin to emerge until later rolls ofthe reign, its strength in Cheshire and Lancashire is already made evident Attention should be called particularly to the massive Lancashire section in the present document, which adds considerably to our knowledge of recusancy in that county. As may be gathered from the accompanying annotations, 441 many items of land-seizure there recorded are not due to reappear until 1596 (38 Eliz .)the fifth roll of the series It is worthy of notice that such irregularity of re-enrolment is a normal feature of the palatinate and Welsh sectionsofthe rolls

Wales is representedin the first, second , fourth, fifth, eighthand tenth Recusant Roll of the Elizabethan series, but these contain, intermittently, items relating only to the counties of Carmarthen , Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Glamorgan and Pembroke . 442

No palatine immunities impeded communication between the royal Exchequer and the sheriffs of the twelve counties of the Principality, and its precepts offieri facias were issued to them personally and directly.4 Even so, they alsoin the great administrative reform of 1543were exempted from journeying to Westminster, by the establishment of a method of accounting

439 Note thatthe last item significantly omits the phrase "renders his account" , and so differs radically in characterfrom the "Statements of Arrears" of other English sheriffs The same omission is observable in the enrolled account of Peter Warburton, sheriff of the County Palatine of Chester , in Recusant Roll, E. 377/6, Cestr' , and also of sheriffPeter Leighin E . 377/8 , Cestr' .

440 That this was an official appointment is proved by the fact that Durham items were included in the Recusant Summonses of the Pipe to Yorkshire sheriffs , e.g. in Hutton's Book of Summons (p lxv, note247) The absence of annotations to such entries seems to indicate, however , that he did not accountfor them .

441 Cf. editor's notes to the text ofthatcounty.

442 Brecon, Montgomery and Radnor make their first appearance in E. 377/14 (1606-6). Anglesey , Cardigan and Merioneth are mentioned not at all, upto 1611 (the limit of my investigation)

443 See annotations in the margins of later rolls, e.g. fierifacias separalibus vicecomitibus separalium comitatuum-"Issue a fieri facias to the separate sheriffsofthe several counties" (E. 377/8 , Wallia)

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before Crown auditors at local exchequers . 444 By this system the collected dues and audited accounts were passed to Receivers GeneralofNorth and SouthWalesfordeliveryto Westminster,where (under Elizabeth) the accounts were examined by the Auditors of the Land Revenue and declared before the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer, in a manner similar to the modified "Augmentation" procedure already referred to . 445 However, since the general similarity of the marginal instructions throughoutthe rolls indicates that all writs to the Welsh sheriffs for the levying ofrecusant debts originated from the same Remembrancer as directed their English colleagues , it is clearthat in Wales, too, this branch ofshrievalwork wasdealt with, in part at least, by the old Exchequercourse.

Financially , the results seem to have been far from satisfactory. Although justices in their circuits and Exchequer-appointed commissionersadequatelyperformed theirrespectivedutiesas may be seen from the long lists of estreated convictions and seizures of lands and goods enteredin the Wallia section of the rolls after 1600 (E . 377/8)-recorded payments are of extremely rare occurrence. In the first nineteen Recusant Rolls (1592-1611 ) only five payments are entered, from the lands of three recusants, representing a total of £21-11-10.446 So meagrea contributionfrom three-quarters of the Principality gives cause to wonder whether the Pipe Office records are here incomplete Several of the enrolled seizures are , indeed, annotated as having been discharged upon plea in the Exchequer court at Westminster,447 but by far the greater number arewithoutnotes ofany sort Areweto believethatthese numerous debts were allowed to remain unlevied ? Or ought we to infer that detailed records of Welsh recusant payments were normally kept elsewhere for instance, inthe department ofthe LandRevenue Auditorsand that the moneyswereincluded, without specification, within the gross sums paid yearly into the Receipt oftheExchequer by the Receivers? It is a point worthy of further consideration and research . Ifany particularised records were actuallymade and preserved , they haveyet to be discovered.

C. SOME STATISTICS AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

Compared with the first roll, whoseconsiderable bulk is chieflydue to a mammoth consignment of over 3,000 estreatedconvictions of various dates , our present document (comprising 27 rotulets) is

444 Cf. Acts27 Henry VIII, c. 26, §9,; and 34 and 35 Henry VIII, c 26, §§52, 60, 64 (S. atL.). Cf. also Lists and Indexes, IX, Introd, p iv (P.R.O.)

445 Supra, p cvii, note438

446 The one Elizabethanpaymentis a rent of £11-9-4 fromthelandsofErasmus Saunders in Cos. Pembroke andCarmarthen(E. 377/4). Thefour Jacobean rent-payments comprise one of 13s 4d by Morgan Thomas of Co. Brecon (E. 377/15), and three, totalling £9-3-3, by Richard BannisterofCo.Denbigh (E. 377/17, 18 , 19)

447 The majorityof such references occurin roll E. 377/15 .

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diminutive. Nevertheless , within its modest capacity are to be found the names of approximately 1,100 recusants , 687 of whom are unrecorded in its predecessor Most of these, of course, appear in the lists of enrolled estreats, Staffordshire making the biggest contributionwith 144 new names Also appearingfor the first time are 121 land-seizures, 448 71 seizures ofgoods, and 26Crownleasesthe enrolment ofwhich, unlike that ofthe estreats, represent work performed during the current Exchequer year.449 Since the corresponding figures in the preceding roll are shown to be 58, 18 and 39 , it is clear that the clerical staffwas actually more busilyengaged with recusancyin 1593-4 than in 1592-3 .

The year to year treatment of recusancy by the Exchequer may to a great extent be inferred from the number of confiscations of property exhibited in the rolls. Despite difficulties caused by the intermittent enrolment of the accounts of certain counties, the rental items, being annually re-enrolled and never terminating without a dated note of cancellation, provide an opportunity for the assembly of statistical evidence on this point. A feasible and useful line of inquiry would therefore be to check, in each roll, the number of new land-seizures with that of land-discharges occurringin the same year 450 Such an investigation , if pursued through the remaining rolls of the reign, could produce reliable figures enabling the student not merely to measure theconstancy of Elizabethan recusantsbut also to note fluctuations in the Exchequer threat to property. A study ofthe presentroll, its predecessorand its two immediate successors, 451 shows that the Crown's acquisition of the above-mentioned 121 new recusant properties during this year was offset by only 19 dischargesin the same period, bringing the overall total of such properties remaining in the Queen'shands, as at Michaelmas 1594 , up to 375an increase of 102 over the previous year This provides at least a starting point for the suggested inquiry In general terms, it seems safe to say that the same tendency was maintained in subsequent rolls of the reign. Recusantlands continued to accumulateat a varying pacein the Queen's hands, new seizures being normally more numerous than concurrent discharges

The mounting acquisition ofrecusantlands bythe Crown resulted indeed in an increasing number of debts, but not necessarilyin a corresponding increase of revenue A further factor has to be

448 68 ofwhich appear under Lancashire . 449 As we have seen (p. xcix, "Location of entry"), estreat-enrolment was normally a late addition to theroll

450 Note that the date of the Memoranda Roll cited in such annotations is invariably also the date oftheactualdischarge

451Annotations of total land-discharge are not infrequently misplaced Thus those dated as occurring in the first term (Michaelmas ) of the current year will often be found in the roll of the preceding year. Moreover, belated annotations of this kind, relating to other terms of the current year, may occasionally appear in eitherofthe two nextfollowing rolls

consideredtheshortcomings ofsheriffsin the collecting ofrecusant rents. Of great significance here are the following figures of the revenue actually derived from recusant sources during the years covered by the Elizabethan Recusant Rolls . 452 Date Receipts

Year ending Mich 1593

£6,240-6-10

£6,160-4-7

£6,551-5-11

£6,074-7-6

£6,546-5-6

£6,295-8-7

£6,047-13-1

£7,654-19-0

£9,126-19-3

£8,548-2-8

£7,115-7-0454

It will be noticed that the increasein receipts after 1599455 (accompanied, incidentally , by a notable increasein the physical size ofthe corresponding rolls) divides the above years into two clearly defined periods While the signs of livelier activity in the rolls ofthelatterperiod probablyreflect officialanxiety over thequestion ofthe succession to the throne,456 the remarkablylevel figures of the first seven years undoubtedly indicate the habitual lack of urgencyin Exchequer proceedings during less critical times. This, however, is not to saythat they signifya general relaxation of antipapist zeal. In another sphere, namely, the prosecution ofpriests and oftheir lay helpers, 457 there is no sign oftolerance at this time.

452Drawn fromthe records of the Clerk of the Pells andquoted by F. C. Dietz in The Exchequer in Elizabeth's reign(Smith CollegeStudies in History , vol viii, p. 87-9).

453 Theyear of thepresentroll.

454 Dietz, Receipts and Issues of the Exchequer temp James I and Charles I (ibid , vol xiii, p. 136) This final figure is given under James I, but seems intendedto include the receipts of the last half-year ofElizabeth'sreign.

455 The increase is partly accounted for by the receipt of £780 p.a. from new fine-payingrecusants (cf. p lxxxiv)

456 An even more striking example of this kind of reaction to public events is seen in Dietz' continuation ofthe above table : Year ending Mich 1604 - £1,414-3-5

1605

1606

1607

£2,213-12-3

£10,210-1-8 (GunpowderPlot)

£8,321-12-6 1608£8,537-19-4 1609 £12,965-14-0 .

457 Two ofthe latter, destined in later years of this reign to pay the extreme penalty, appear in the present roll, viz John Talbot (Yorks. [26]) and John Bretton (Yorks [32]) Cf. BiographicalStudies (Recusant History), II, pp.4 seq. and 111 seq .

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For example, the number of executions (nine) carried out between Michaelmas 1593 and Michaelmas 1594 the year of the present roll was actually well above the average annual figure (five) for the period 1592-1603.

The fact remains, nevertheless , that in the matter of recusants' debts the Elizabethan Exchequer normally showed an astonishing laxity. As evidence we need only point to the disparity between £19,600the sum ofthe debts (excluding fines) charged uponlands and goods in the present rolland the £2,780 actually raised from such sources . 458 Whether this situation was due to deliberate policy favouring intimidation rather than impoverishment, or to Exchequer incapacity in dealing with a vast problem, it is at any rate clear that the potentialities of recusancy as a regular and valuable source of State revenue were not yet being seriously weighed.

On the other hand, it must not be overlooked that the quoted annual figures relate solely to public revenueand are not necessarily commensurate with the actual losses suffered by the recusants What was extorted from them, additionally, by informers , lessees and grantees inthe ordinarycourse ofprivate compounding remains unknown, but it is possibleevenprobablethat the greater part oftheirfinanciallosses were inflicted thus in secret by these beneficiaries ofthe Crown. Private family papers would seem to bethe most likely source to throw light on this important aspect of the penalties ofrecusancy459

D. METHOD OF PUBLICATION

The system of analytical abridgment adopted in this book is set forth in the "Key to the Abstracts" (p. cxv, and book-mark).

1. Regarding the scheme itself, one should notice, first,thatthe sequence of points in the set analyses corresponds with the order most commonly observable in the original entries (this not infrequentlyvaries, especiallyin rental items) ; secondly, that the use of direct translation is limited to original annotations, and to such entries or parts ofentries (clearly indicated in the "Key") as are of particularimportance or are subjectto notable variation

2. Regarding the principles followed in the arrangement ofthe material and the Englishing of the text some further explanation is necessary

The original order of the entries within each county section has been preserved, but the counties themselves are rearranged in strictly alphabetical sequence, and "overflow" portions of county accounts, originally scatteredin other parts ofthe roll, are gathered

458 Even if all the charged arrears had been eliminated, the latter sumwould still have been considerablyless than one thirdofthetotaldebt 459 William Ashby's report on his dealings withJohn Draycote (see p lxxxvi) is the only reference to this subject so far encountered in official Exchequer records

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under their appropriate county titles. The roll's own prolix footnotedirections regarding the whereabouts ofsuchcontinuations have therefore been rendered unnecessary , and are here omitted . 460 Editingofthe roll has, infact, been greatly facilitated bythe presence ofa pencillednumber recently addedto each rotuletoftheMS . This numbering I have reproduced at the head of every countysection. For purposes of easy reference, I have also numbered the entries occurring under each county and provided titles explanatoryof their character

All such matter extraneous to the text of the MS is enclosed in square brackets. Round brackets are used where the original Latin needsto be quoted, and whenever an abbreviated rendering ofthe text demandsthem .

Translation is, on principle , as literal as possible, buttherepetitive style of these records, notably in land-specifications, makes some abridgment often desirable (e.g. Berks [8], D). Where the sense can be safeguarded, I have not hesitated, in such passages, to resort to précis. Punctuation , generally absent in the original, is added throughout. The MS frequently includes vernacular words : these are always incorporated in the English rendering, within quotation marks

The originalspelling of surnames and place-names is preserved. 461 Christian names are anglicised, exceptwhere a dubious or unusual Latin form necessitates its retention

Arabic figures are substituted for the Roman numerals of dates and pecuniary sums, and inthe case ofthe lattertheform ofexpression is modernisede.g "£5" for c.s.: "£1-13-4" for xxxiij.s. iiij.d. "1s . " forxij.d.

Italic type is reserved exclusively for translations of original annotations Recusants ' names are printed in bold type, in order to facilitateidentification .

Editor's notes to the text are inserted at the end of each county section. Acknowledgments In conclusion I wish first to express my gratitude for the constant encouragementextended to me by Abbot MooneyofDouai duringthe compilationof this work. I am also

400 E.g. Quere Res' huius compoti post Res' Lanc' post Cestr'"Seek the restof this account under 'The Remainder of Lancs' after Cheshire '" . Such "overflow" sections occur in the case of eight counties in the present roll : Lancs. , Norfolk, Oxfords., Staffs . , Suffolk, Surrey/Sussex, Worcs. andYorks. 461 Efforts have been made to identify the manycuriously-spelt places mentioned in this document The identifications affirmed or suggested in square bracketsare the result of a study of the volumes of the EnglishPlace-name Society, Bartholomew's Survey Gazetteer, the Victoria County Histories, andin some cases (e.g. regardingplace names in Wales and Monmouthshire) ofconsultationwith local historiansto whom I wish to express my thanks. H

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deeply indebted to Mr. P. R. Glazebrook, Miss M. H. Mills, Mr. M. F. Bond and Dr. J. Conway-Davies for valuable advice on specificpoints ; likewise to Mr. R. E. Latham, Mr. C. A. F. Meekings and other Assistant Keepers of the Public Records for much essentialhelp readily given, and to their Stafffor unfailingcourtesy over a long period of research I am particularly grateful to Dr. N. J. Williamsofthe PublicRecord Office and to Mr. G. de C. Parmiter for kindly reading the above introduction in typescript and for their very useful comments and suggestions . My sincere thanks are offered also to Mrs. D. Steerfor her efficient typing ofan exceptionally difficult text

Douai Abbey, Woolhampton Christmas, 1963

H.B.

KEY TO THE ABSTRACTS

PREAMBLES

Translatedin the caseofthefirsttwo occurring counties: the rest abridged

RENTALSOFSEIZED LANDSand CROWNLEASES

(also ARREARAGES OF RENT)

* indicatesthefirst enrolment ofseized lands

† indicates the first enrolment ofa Crown lease . indicates lands seized for "pre1587" debts.

A

Crown debtor, viz the "farmer" of the seized lands (whether the original tenants or a named, Crown-appointed lessee). (translation)

Name etc. ofthe owner, i.e. the recusant(translation) Note : "B.1" , "B.2" etc. incompound entries

Amount ofrentdue annuallytotheCrown.

Specification of the seized portion of the recusant's lands (translation) Note : "D.1" , "D.2" etc. in compound entries

Particulars oftheseizure :

(a) nameetc. ofthe commissioner(s) responsible forthe seizure (translation)

(b) date of seizure

(c) reason for seizure(translation)

(d)reference to earlier Exchequer record ofthe seizure.

Arrears of rent

Total rentdue.

Particulars ofCrown lease of seized lands :

(a) name etc. ofthe lessee(s) (translation)

(b) date of inception oflease

(c) durationoflease (formula) : "so long as the property shall remain in the Queen'shands"

(d) annual rent due from lessee(s)

(e) how and when payable (formula) : "'in equal portions , at Ladyday and at Michaelmas, to the Receipt of the Exchequer"

(f) (formula continued) "or into the hands of the Sheriff ofthecounty"

(g) (formula continued) "or into the hands of the appointed Bailiffor Receiveroftheabove"

(k) referenceto earlier Exchequer record ofthe lease

Annotations (All such postscripts, textualand marginal, are translated)

cxvi KEY TO THE ABSTRACTS

SEIZED GOODS AND CHATTELS

indicatesthefirst enrolment ofaforfeiture. All entries, and annotations, are translated.

EX-SHERIFFS' DEBTS

ABCD

Name etc. ofsheriff(translation).

His year of office

Total debt

Nature of debt (formula) : "of his various ("pluribus") debts concerning recusants" .

Reference to the original "Statement" of his arrears. Annotations(translation).

STATEMENTS OF SHERIFFS ' ARREARS

Name etc. of current sheriff "rendering this account" .

Particularrents and forfeitures unaccountedfor during his term of office. Note : The numbers in square brackets refer to the numbered entries in the preceding text. (abridged) Sum total ofabove debts owed bysheriff. Discharges of the numbered particulars in B (abridged)

== Note of sheriff's acquittance, or of deferred settlement (translation).

ENROLMENTS OF ESTREATED CONVICTIONS

(and RECORDS OF

FINES PAID

)

Name etc. of convicted recusant (translation)

The word "owes" omitted

The word "owes" inserted.

Total fineincurred

Total period ofrecusancy

Division of fine : (a) for period of recusancy specifiedin indictment .

Reference to statutory authority for fine (i.e. the Act 28 Eliz , c 6 [1586-7], enrolled in Q.R.,M.R . , Easter term, "Recorda" section). Recital of the offence as therein stated , i.e. of not attending "any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer" during the time of divine service ofthe Established Church. Period ofrecusancyas specifiedin indictment

Computation of the duration of recusancy (formula) : "at the rate of 28 days per month" .

Division of fine : (b) for non-compliance after conviction .

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Date of conviction

Period (in lunar months) of non-compliance. Non-compliance defined : viz failureto submit and conform in accordance with the "true meaning" ofthe Act 23 Eliz , c. 1 [1581]

Annotations (translation).

All original annotations are italicised Names of recusants are printed in bold type.

RECUSANT ROLL No. 2

1593-1594

Michaelmas 35Michaelmas 36 Elizabeth I.

(Exchequer L.T.R. , Pipe Office series)

[rotulet 1] [Preamble]

BEDFORDSHIRE

(" Bedd'")

[1] Nicholas Luke, esq , sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz [1593] to Michaelmas, 36 Eliz , to wit, for one full year, renders an account of rents and other debts due to the Queen from the recusants mentioned below, pursuant to a certain Act of the Parliament held [i.e. begun] at Westminster on the 29th day of October, 28 Eliz [1586], in a matter of this kind published and provided, and enrolled in the Memoranda Roll of the Queen's Remembrancer , Easter term , 29 Eliz , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]¹; as follows

[Seized land. Rental]2

[2] farm A Tenants D : Two-thirdsof the lordships or manors of Eaton Soken [Eaton Socon], Beds C.: £27-9-4, being the remainder of [an original rent of] £58-5-51. B : William , Lord Vaux, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1420, by virtue of a certain Act of the Parliament [begun] on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : cf. the Great [Pipe] Rolls of 29 and 33 Eliz , under " Bed"" . F : £123-11-11 from previous years G : £151-1-3 .

"Blank spacein MSfor numberoftherotulet. The Act referredto is 28 Eliz , cap 6 XVIII, p 1 , 1. 14 seq to "xxxiijcioin Bedd'" .

[rotulet 16] [Preamble]

BERKSHIRE

Actually itis rot. 177 Text as C.R.S., vol.

(" Berks'")

[1] Sir Humphrey Foster, knt , sheriff ofthis countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593], to Michaelmas, 36 Eliz., to wit, for

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) BERKS

one fullyear, renders an account of rents and other debts due from the recusants mentioned below, pursuant to the said Act of Parliament referred to elsewhere in this roll, viz under "Bedd'" ; as follows

[Lease of seized land. Rental]¹ [2] farm . A : John Arden and Vincent Coventrye [lessees] C : £24-16-4. D : The whole messuage or tenement called "Bensheves" [Beansheaves], with appurtenances, inTilehurste , Berks.; and the various other messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Burghefeild [Burghfield], Greishill [? Grazeley], Northe Streate and Shinfeild, Berks., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz , under " Res' Berk'" : of the lands and tenements of ... B : Thomas Vachell, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John and Vincent, their executors & assigns. H(b) : From 7 July, 31 Eliz. [1589] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Berk"" F : £74-9-0 from previous years G : £99-5-4.

J: On 28 April, 33 Eliz. [1591], £12-8-2 was paid into the Treasury from this same farm. And on 4 Nov., 33Eliz [1591 ], £12-8-2 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 27 April, 34 Eliz. [1592], £12-8-2 was paid ... [etc. as above : under the nameof Richard Wardedeleted]. And on 7 Nov., 34 Eliz. [1592], £12-8-2 was paid from this farm into the Treasury, under the name of Richard Warde, esq Andthey [Arden & Coventrye] owe £49-12-8 . For which the sheriffanswers below.2

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³

[3] farm . A Ralph Smythe, gent. [lessee] C : £6-13-4.

D : Two-thirds of a capital messuage or tenement , with its appurtenances , and of a certain meadow called "le Poole" , in Sutton [Sutton Courtenay], Berks , and of various other messuages, lands and tenements, with their appurtenances, specifiedin the Great [Pipe]Roll of32 Eliz,under "Res' Berk"" B : Thomas Hulse, recusant H(a) : The aforesaid Ralph Smythe, his executors and assigns. H(b) : From 27 Nov., 33 Eliz. [1590] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as inentry[2]. F : £6-13-4from the previousyear G : £13-6-8. J: For which the sheriffanswers below.2

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[4] farm . A Thomas Purcell, gent [lessee ] C : £20-19-9& two-thirds of d D : Messuages , lands and tenements , with their appurtenances, in Snosewick [Snowswick] and Burscott [Buscot], Berks. of the yearly value of £20-17-9 & two-thirds

of d.; and two-thirds of one capital messuage in Bathampton, Wilts , together with various other lands and tenements , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll of 32 Eliz , under " Res' Berk B Francis Parkins, lately of Langford, Wilts., gent., recusant H(a) : The aforesaid Thomas Purcell, his executors and assigns. H(b) : From 15 Dec., 33 Eliz. [1590].

H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [2]

F : £20-19-9 & two-thirds of d. from the previous year. G : £41-19-6 & two-thirds of onepenny. J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]5

[5] farm . A Charles Pagett, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : 13s 4d per ann., being part [of an originalrent] of £65-16-6 & a half-farthing D: Two-thirds of one messuage ortenement,andofvariouslands, tenements , meadows, grazing and pasture land, and hereditaments belonging or appertaining thereto, situated, lying and existing in Estillesley or Esthillesley [East Ilsley], Berks , commonly called "Le Ferme de Illesley" . B : Walter Illesley, gent. , recusant. H(a) The aforesaid Charles Pagett, hisexecutorsand assigns. H(b)

From 30 May, 31 Eliz [1589] H(c) H(d) : 13s 4d. H(e). H(f). H(k) : cf. the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Berk " . F : £1-6-8 from previous years G : £2.

J: On 7 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], 6s 8d . was paid intothe Treasury from this same farm And he [Pagett] owes £1-13-4 . [Further postscripts as under entry [3]]

*[Seized land. Rental] [6] farm. A : Tenants. B : Francis Plowden , gent. , recusant. C : £9-18-6. D : Two-thirds of one capital messuage in Burghfeild , with its appurtenances , and of other grazing lands and pasturesin SulhamsteedBanysterotherwisecalled "Michelles" [Migheals], SulhamsteedAbbott, and Stratfeld Mortymer, Berks., ofthe yearly value of £6-13-4 ; and also ofone tenement or farm in Wokefeld , in the parish of Mortymer, yearly value £2-13-4 ; also of the reversion of various tenementsin Wokefeld aforesaid, in the several tenures of Ann Pearson , William Hawthorne and others, yearly value £4-15-0 ; and of the several reversions of three separate tenements, with appurtenances, in Michells, Burghfeld and Wookefeild , in the several tenures of John Dee, Thomas James and Robert Ildesley, yearly value 16s E(a) : Humphrey Foster , esq , and others E(b) : 6 April, 34 Eliz. [1592] E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz., Michaelmasterm, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F : £14-17-9 from preceding years. G : £24-16-3.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent],

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) BERKS

nor ought the said rent be to charged henceforth, for a reason stated elsewhere in this roll, viz. under "Salop" , in the farm of the tenants of two-thirds of the lands and tenements of the aforesaid Francis Plowden in the said county of Salop. And they are quit.

*[Seized land. Rental] [7] farm. A : Tenants. B : MarthaBrabrooke, widow, recusant , C : £2-2-2 . D : Two-thirds of a moiety of the manors of Marleston [in Bucklebury], Foulescott [Fulscot] and Adresham [inS. Moreton] ; and of 8 tenementsin Abindon [Abingdon] ; of one tenement in Sutton Courtney, and of one piece ofland called "Coppes Lease" in Sparsholte, Berks E(a) : Edmund Fettiplace, esq , and others E(b) : 25 Sept., 35 Eliz [1593] E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Mich. term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F £1-1-11 & a halffarthingfrom the previous year G : £3-3-4 & a half-farthing. J: But they [tenants] oughtnot to be summoned for £2-2-2 , the rent for this year, nor ought the said rent to be charged from Michaelmas, 35Eliz. [1593], because Sir William Broncker, knt , and another person answer for the same rent from the saidfeast of Michaelmas, 35 Eliz , and thereafter are answerableto the Queen by another commission , as is contained [in the entry] immediately below. And they [tenants] owe £1-1-11 & a half-farthing. [Later note] On 3 June, 36 Eliz [1594], £1-1-1 oftheabove sum of £3-3-4 was paid into the Treasury under the name of Sir Humphrey Foster, knt , sheriff, from this same farm. And they [tenants] are quit.

†[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[8] farm . A: SirWilliam Broncker, knt , and Richard Hyde, esq. [lessees ]. C : £2-2-2 & two-thirds of 1d. D : Two-thirds of a moiety of the manor of Marleston alias Marston alias Maston, with all appurtenances in Berks. , of which Martha Braybroke, lately of the parish of Brickleton [Bright Walton], Berks , widow , recusant, is seised in her demesne, as offreehold estate,for the termof her life, ofthe clear yearly value of £1 , of which the Queen'stwo-thirds amounts to 13s 4d. per an. And two-thirds of a moiety of the manor of Fowelescott alias Foulscott [Fulscot] and Adresham, with all appurtenances in Berks., of which the said Martha is seised as above ; clear yearly value £1 (13s 4d p.a. due to the Queen). And twothirds of eight tenements, with appurtenances, in Abindon [Abingdon], Berks , ofwhich the said Marthais seised as above; clearyearly value 10s (6s 8d p.a. to the Queen). And twothirds ofonetenement or messuage in Sutton Courtney, Berks, of which the said Martha is seised as above ; clear yearly

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) BERKS

value 3s 4d (2s 2d & two-thirds of 1d p.a. to the Queen) Also two-thirds of a pasture called "Coppes Lease" in the parish of Sparshoult, Berks. , of which the said Martha is seised as above ; clear yearly value 10s. (6s 8d p.a. to the Queen). B Aforesaid Martha Braybroke. E(b): 25 Sept., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) : Edmund Fetyplace, esq., and others. H(a) William Broncker and Richard Hyde, their executors & assigns. H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz., under " Berk'" . : J: On 20 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £1-1-2 was paid into the Treasury from this farm. And on 16 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £1-1-2 was paid [etc. as above].

And they [Broncker and Hyde] are quit

[Seized goods]

[9] Sir HumphreyFoster, knt , sheriff, owes £2-6-8, charged upon himself , for the price or value of the goods ofRoger Astell of Basseldon [Basildon], "yoman" , recusant ; as is contained in Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz, Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[10]farm . A Tenants B : RogerAstellofBasseldon, "yoman" , recusant. C : £3-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a certain farm lying & existing in Peasemore , Berks. E(b) : 17 Jan., 36 Eliz. [1593-4]. E(a) : John Dolman, esq., and others E(c) : The recusancy of the said Roger. E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, as in entry[9]

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Statement ofsheriff'sarrears]

[11] A: The same sheriff, viz Sir Humphrey Foster , knt. B : [2] £49-12-8 (Arden etc.). [3] £13-6-8 (Smythe). [4] £41-19-66 (Purcell). [5] £3-3-4 (Pagett) [9] £1-6-8 (Foster). [10] £3-6-8 (Astell's tenants). C : £111-5-67 & two-thirdsof 1d.

D : [2] Arden etc. answerfor £49-12-8 in Recusant Roll, 37 Eliz under " Berk"" , after theirfarm.8

[3] Smytheanswers for £10 of his debt of £13-6-8 insame Roll (loc cit.) after hisfarm.8

[4] Purcell answers for £41-19-6 & two-thirds of 1d. in same Roll(loc. cit.) after hisfarm.8

[5] Pagett answers for £1-13-4 in same Roll (loc. cit) afterhisfarm.8

E : And on 5 Feb., 38 Eliz [1595/6], £8 was paid by the said sheriff into theTreasury, to settle theremainderofhisaccount. And he [sheriff]isquit 'Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p 6, 1. 39 seq , to "xxxiijcio in Res' Berk'" . 2Cf entry [11], D. 3Text as op cit , p 8, 1. 17 seq . as op cit., p. 8, 1. 30 seq. to " equales porc' solvend " . in MS "Text 5Text as op cit , p 9, 1. 38 seq 6"and two-thirds of 1d . " omitted 8Note in L. margin : Sic for £112-15-6 It is answered ("r[espondet]ur"). The sheriff (Foster) was therefore discharged ofthisamount.

[rotulet 1 , dorse]

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

(" Buck"")

[Lease of seized land. Rental]¹ [1] farm . A Robert Balthroppe, chief surgeon to the Queen [lessee]. C : £136-6-5. D : The whole capital messuage , with its appurtenances, called "Amerden" , in Taplowe ; and various other messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, woods and fisheries , specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 29 Eliz., under "Item Buck " ofthe lands and tenementsof. . . B : Henry Manfeyld , esq.,recusant H(a) : Aforesaid RobertBalthroppe, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 24 Feb. , 30 Eliz [1587/8] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(g). H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under" Buck"" . J: On 25 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £68-3-2 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury, under the names of the executors ofthe said RobertBalthroppe Andon 30 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £68-3-2 waspaid[etc. as above]. And he [Balthroppe] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]2

[2] farm . A Thomas Sheffeild and Richard Brewster [lessees ] C : £19-15-6 . D : The whole rectoryof Bledlowe, with all the rights, membersand appurtenancesbelonging and pertaining to it ; together with various other messuages, lands, meadows, woods and pastures specified in the [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz. , under Buck' : of the lands and tenementsof B : Edward East, recusant H(a) : The aforesaid Thomas & Richard, and their assigns. H(b) : From 14 Feb., 31 Eliz. [1588/9]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry [1]. F £11-15-6 for Francis Cheyney, esq., late sheriffofthe year 31 Eliz., as is contained in the Great [Pipe] Roll of 31 Eliz., under " Buck"" , being part of the said rent for the year 31 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under " Buck " . Total £31-11-1 ; and £19-15-6 for the past year. G : £51-6-7 .

J: On 18 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £9-17-9 was paid into the Treasury from this farm, under the name of Henry Langvyle, esq., sheriff . And on 15 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £9-17-9 was paidfrom thisfarm into theTreasury. And on 13 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £9-17-9 waspaid [etc. as preceding]. Andon28 Nov. , Eliz [1594], £9-17-9 was paid [etc.]. And they [Sheffeild & Brewster] owe £11-15-5 . And they answer in thefollowing [Recusant] Roll, under" Buck"" .

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[3] farm . A Henry Eveside, one of the chaplains to the Queen [lessee] C £63-16-10 D: The whole capital messuage, with an estimated 50 acres of meadow land, in the tenure of Thomas Tasburgh, esq , together with various other manors , messuages, lands and tenements, with appurtenances, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Buck""3 ; being a parcel of the lands and possessions of ... B : John Gardiner of Fulmer, Bucks. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Henry Eveside, his executors& assigns H(b) : From22 June, 33 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Buck " . F : £159-12-1 from the precedingyear G : £223-8-11. J : [L. Margin] Supersedeas. "

[Record of annual finepaid]

[4] A Thomas Throgmorton, esq C. D : £260 H. E : 25 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593] to 24 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], viz. for a period of thirteen [lunar] months K. G. P : On 11 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £120 was paid intotheTreasury. And on 28 Nov., 37Eliz [1594], £140 was paid [etc.] And he is quit. 3Cf

'Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p.1, 1. 25 seq. (with variant phrasings) to "xxxiijcioin Buck'" . op cit., pp. 3-5 Text as op cit, p 2, 1. 16 seq "A writ for stayof proceedings .

[rotulet 2] [Preamble]

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

(" Cant'")

[1] John Peyton, esq., sheriff of this countyand of the countyof Huntingdon from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593] to Michaelmas , 36 Eliz., renders ... [etc. as under Berkshire].

[Lease of seized land Rental].¹

[2] farm . A John Hutton, esq [lessee] C : £32 D : The whole manor of Milton alias Midleton, Cambs. , with all its

appurtenances; of the lands and possessions of ... B : Henry Cooke of Milton aforesaid, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Hutton & his assigns. H(b) : From 28 June, 30 Eliz [1588] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe ] Roll, 33 Eliz , under Cant' Hunt'" . F: £32 from precedingyear. G : £64

66

J: On 3 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £16 was paid fromthisfarm into the Treasury. And on 6 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £16 was paid [etc. as above]. And on the last day of April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £16 was paid[etc.] And on the last day of Oct., 36Eliz [1594], £16 was paid. [etc.]. And he [Hutton] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]2

[3] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of certain lands and tenements in Linton, Cambs. C : £2 B : Agnes Thurgare, widow, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £200,3 by virtue of a certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) as in entry [2], H(g) F : £2 from precedingyear. G : £4.

J: For which the sheriffanswers below.5

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedunless ... [Lease of seized land Rental]6

[4] farm. A William Twittye [lessee ] C : £10 D : Twothirds of the whole manor or messuage of Eltesley [Eltisley], Cambs ., with appurtenances; and of a whole messuage and cottage, with appurtenances , in Finchingfeild , Essex , lately in the tenure of Giles Watford, and ofanother cottage there inthe tenure of Alexander Glastock ; being a parcel ofthe lands and possessions of ... B : Ann Mannock, lately ofStoke-by-Naylond, co. Suffolk, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Twyttye, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 1 May, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry [2].

J: On 26 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury And on 28 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paid [etc. as above]. And he [Twittye] is quit.

*[Seized land Rental]

[5] farm . A Tenants B : Frances Torrell, widow, recusant. C : £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of 76 acres of arable and of 1 acre offreepasture land in Great Shelford, and ofone close containing 4 acres of customary arable land in Stableford [Stapleford] in the occupation of Francis Brawyn, gent. E(a) : Sir John Cutts, knt , & others E(b) : 28 April, 35 Eliz [1593]. E(d) cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F £6-13-4 from the precedingyear. G : £20

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[6] farm . A Tenants B. Evan ("Evanus") Fludd, gent., recusant. C : 10s D : Two-thirds of one enclosed pasture in Lynton, estimated to contain 3 acres E(a), (b), (d), as in entry [5]. F 5s from the preceding year G : 15s. J: [Postscripts as under entry [3]].

[7]

[Seized goods]

Sir Henry Cromwell, knt., late sheriff of this county owes £24 , charged upon himself , for the price of 63 quarters of barley ("ordei"), ofthe goods of the aforesaid Evan Fludd, recusant ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz, Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] [Postscript] And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under "Cant'" .

[Seized land. Rental]

[8] farm . A : Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manors of Cheynes and Wallinge in Longstanton, and of the manor of Fendytton, called "Dytton Hall" , Cambs C : £42-14. B : William, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1420, by virtue of a certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Cant' Hunt'" . F: £206-4s. from previous years G : £248-18s.

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[9] A The same sheriff, viz John Peyton, esq. B [3] £4 (Thurgare's tenants) [5] £20 (Torrell's tenants). [6] 15s. (Fludd'stenants)

C : Total £24-15s

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Cant"" .

1Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 13, 1. 21 seq

2Textas op cit, p 13 , 3Sic in MS.; 1. 34 seq "The Act 28 Eliz. , cap 6. "£300" in C.R.S. , XVIII (loc cit.). 5Cf entry [9], E. op cit, p 13 , 1. 40 seq , to " equales porc' ibidem" .

[rotulet 3a]

CHESHIRE

[Lease ofseized land Rental]¹

Text as

(" Cestr'")

[1] farm . A William Grafton[lessee]. C : £15-17-10. D : All the closes of land, with appurtenances, lying & existing in Thurstaston Cheshire, called or known by the name of"Le Woodhey, " "Harpurs Hey, " "Foxeholes" , and "Oxheys";

and two-thirds of "Le Marledheys" there, together with various other messuages, lands and tenementsspecified in the Great [Pipe] Roll of 31 Eliz , under " Cestr'" . B : John Whitemore, esq., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid William Grafton & his assigns. H(b) : From 18 Nov., 31 Eliz [1588]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Cestr'" . F : £76-19-2 from previous years. G : £92-7s.

J: [Postscripts]2

[Lease of seized land Rental]³ [2] farm . A Hugh Cuff, gent [lessee] C : £5-13-4, being part of£75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10. D.1 The whole of a certain messuage or tenement , with appurtenances in Little Pulton [Poulton], Lancs. ; two messuages or tenements, with appurtenances, in Kirkham, Lancs.; also certain lands, messuages & tenementsin Croston, Lancs , and other messuages, lands & tenements in Lancashire , with theirappurtenances : being a parcel ofthe landsandpossessions of ... B.1 William Heskethe, recusant D.2 : The whole of a messuage, with appurtenances , in Windle, Lancs., being a parcel ofthe goods & chattels of ... B.2 : Matthew Travers , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 27 Eliz [1585] H(c) :. "for the satisfaction of the debts ofWilliam Hesketheand the other person" . H(d) : £5-13-4 H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry [1] F £39-13-4 from previous years. G : £45-6-8 J: [Postscripts]2

[Lease of seized land

Rental] [3] farm . A William Whitemore , gent. [lessee]. C : £26-13-4 .

D : The whole manor ofThorneton , with all its rights, members & appurtenances in Cheshire ; together with various other messuages, lands, meadowsand pastures specified inthe Great [Pipe] Roll of 25 Eliz., under " Res' Cestr'" ; being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : William Houghe, esq. , recusant H(a): Aforesaid William [Whitemore], his executors & assigns H(b): 1 March, 26 Eliz [1583/4]. H(c) : "forthe satisfaction ofthe debt ofthe saidWilliam Houghe" . H(d) as C. H(e) : [variant]"at the feast of St. JohnBaptist and at Christmas, to the Receipt" . . . [etc. as formula] Ĥ(f) H(k) as in entry [1] F : £266-13-4 from previous years. G : £293-6-8.

1: [Postscripts].2

[Lease of seized land Rental]6 [4] farm . A John Hocknell of Hocknell [Hockenhull ], esq. , [lessee] C : £10 D : The whole manor of Prenton, with

all its rights & appurtenances in Cheshire, being a parcel of the possessions of ... B : John Hocknell. D : and various other lands, meadows and pastures specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 27 Eliz , under " Res' Cestr H(a) Aforesaid John Hocknell , esq , and his executors & assigns, for the use of Margaret, the presentwife of the said John Hocknell, gent., and of the children of the same Margaret H(b) : From Ladyday, 26 Eliz [1584]. H(c) . "for the satisfaction of a debt of £200" H(d) : £10 H(e). H(g) H(k) : as in entry [1]. F £95 from previous years. G : £105.

J: [Postscripts]²

[Seized land. Rental]8

[5] farm . A: Tenants D: Two-thirds of the reversion , afterthe death of Hugh Eardswick, ofthe manor of Leighton, Cheshire, with appurtenances. C : £4-8-10 & two-thirdsofafarthing B : Sampson Eardswick, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260 by reason of his recusancy . E(a) : Sir John Savage, knt. , and others E(b) : 1 Sept., 31 Eliz [1589] E(d) cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under " Cestr' F : £20 from previous years. G : £24-8-10 & two-thirdsof afarthing.

J: [Postscripts]²

[Arrearage of rent]²

[6] A Tenants B : Margaret Davenporte, widow, recusant F : £1-13-4, of a certain rent of £3-6-8, being part of the said rent due at Michaelmas, 34 Eliz. [1592]. D: Two-thirds ofa third oftwo-thirds ofthe manor of Bromhall [Broomhall ; Stockport par]. E(d) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Cestr'" . 10

[Arrearage of rent]

[7] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of 4 closes of land in Thurstaston and of other lands & tenements in Cheshire. F : £7-13-11 of a certain rent of £15-7-10, being part of the said rent due at Michaelmas, 30 Eliz [1588] B : John Whytmore, esq , recusant E(d) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Cestr'" . J. [Postscripts]⁹

[Seized goods]

[8] Katherine Crockett of Tilston, "spinster" , owes to the Queen 13s 4d , charged upon herself, for the price of one mare, taken and seized intothe Queen's handsbySir Hugh Cholmeley, senior, knt , & others, by reason of the recusancy ofthe same Katherine ; as is contained in Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. [1593], Mich term, "Recorda" section, rotulet ( ). [Postscript]⁹ I

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) CHESHIRE

*[Seized land. Rental]

[9] farm . A Tenants B : Ranulf ("Ranulfus") Aldersey, lately ofBunbury , gent. C : 13s. 4d. D : Two-thirds ofone messuage or tenement in Acton, and of certain lands & tenements pertaining to the same. E(b) : 26 Sept., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) : Sir Hugh Cholmeley, knt , and others E(c): Recusancy of the same Ranulf E(d) : Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35

Eliz., Mich. term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F : 6s 8d from the precedinghalf-year G : £1

J: [Postscript]

*[Seized land Rental]

[10]farm . A Tenants. B : John Whitbye of Spurstowe in the parish of Bunbury C : 13s 4d , for Michaelmas, 36 Eliz, being part of an annual rent of £1-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one messuage and of certain lands in Spurstowe aforesaid, estimated to contain 10 acres of land ("terrae"). E(b) : 3 April, 36 Eliz [1594] E(a) : Peter Warburton, esq , and others. E(c) Recusancy of the same John E(d): cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ].

J : [Postscript]

*[Seized land Rental]

[11]farm. A Tenants. B : Ellen ("Ellena") Woolley of the parish of Bunbury . C. 6s . 8d , for Michaelmas, 36 Eliz, being part of an annual rent of 13s 4d D : Two-thirds of one messuage and of 6 acres of land, with appurtenances, in Tylston [Tilston], Cheshire E(b) and (a) as in entry [10] E(c) Recusancy of the same Ellen E(d) as in entry[10]. J: [Postscript]

*[Seized land . Rental]

[12]farm . A Tenants B: JohnWilson, junior, lately ofWordhull [? Wardle], "laborer" C : 12s , for Michaelmas, 36 Eliz. , being part of an annual rent of £1-4s. D : Two-thirds ofone messuage and 9 acres of land, with appurtenances, in Wordhull aforesaid E(b) and (a) as in entry [10] E(c) : Recusancy of the same John. E(d) as in entry[10] J [Postscript]11

[Seized goods& chattels]

[13] Peter Warburton, esq , sheriff, owes £1-10s., which he has taken ("quos [solidos] cepit") of the goods & chattels of Margery Boothe, widow, recusant Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz [1594/5], Easter term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ [Postscript]12]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[14] The same sheriff owes 6s 8d , which ("quos" [denarios]) he has taken ofthegoods& chattelsofRobertLongton, "husband"" , recusant. Cf. Memoranda Roll [etc. as [13] above].12

[15]

[16]

[17]

[Seized goods & chattels]

£11 ("quas [libras] cepit") from Margery Cotgreve, widow , recusant. [formula etc. as entry[14] above].12

[Seized goods & chattels]

£2-6-8 ("quos [denarios] cepit") from Thomas Huxley, " husband"" , recusant [formula etc. as [14] above].12

[Seized goods& chattels]

£10 ("quas [libras] cepit") from John Whitbye, " husband"" , recusant [formula etc. as [14] above].12

[Seized goods & chattels]

[18] 1s . ("quos [denarios] cepit") from Ralph Cooke , "laborer" , recusant. [formula etc. as [14] above].12

[19]

[Seized goods& chattels]

£3-6-8 ( quos [denarios] cepit") from John Wilson , junior, "laborer" , recusant [formula etc. as [14] above].12

[Seized goods & chattels]

[20]£1 ("quos [solidos] cepit") from Elizabeth Dytowe, "spinster" , recusant. [formula etc. as [14] above].12

[Seized goods & chattels]

[21] £12 ("quas [libras] cepit") from John Streete, "yoman" , recusant [formula etc. as [14] above].12

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 20, 1. 17 seq to"Regine huiusinCestr'"

Entries [1] to [6] inclus are bracketed , L., with the notes: "Fieri facias" to the Chamberlain of Chester. Cf. Introd. , p. cvi, note

porc' ibid " "

Entries [1] to [5] inclus. are bracketed , R., with the note: And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under Cestr for thesameseveralrents and theirarrears. 3Textas op. cit, p. 20, 1. 36 seq to" sicut cont' ibidem" . *Leasehold property ("chattelsreal"). 5Text as op. cit , p. 21 , 1. 13 seq to "equales porciones " . "Text as op cit , p 21, 1. 27, seq to equales "Without addition in MS Clearly, however, to be identified with the John Hocknell, gent , mentionedbelow in Text as op cit , p 21, 1. 42, seq to " capt' et seisit' " . Entries [6] to [8] inclus, are bracketed , R. , with the note: And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " Cestr'" . 10Cf op cit, p 22, 1. 10 seq 11Entries [9] to [12] inclus , are bracketed , R.,withthenote:Andthey answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " Cestr'" , for the same several rents andtheir 12Entries [13] to [21] inclus , are bracketed , R., with the note : The total ofthese9 debts-£41-11s . Andhe [Warburton] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " Cestr'" . text arrears.

14 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[rotulet 3b, dorse]

[Preamble]

CORNWALL (" Cornub'")

[1] Thomas Lower, esq , sheriff ofthis countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., to Michaelmas, 36 Eliz. , renders . . . [etc. as under Berkshire, [1], p 1].

[Lease of seized land

Rental]¹

[2] farm . A John Wingfeild, gent [lessee ] C : £41-6-8 .

D: Two-thirds of a manor house ("bartonie") or tenement called "Cortider" [Cartuther], Cornwall , and of one mill there , with theirappurtenances; together withvarious othermanors , messuages, lands and tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz. , under " Cornub'" B : Robert Beckett, esq. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Wingfeild, his executors & assigns H(b) : Ladyday, 31 Eliz. [1589] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Cornub'" . F : £41-6-8 from the preceding year. £82-13-4.

J: For which the sheriffanswers below² [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Lease of seized land

Rental]³ G :

[3] farm . A Hanniball Vivian, esq [lessee] C : £22-4-4 .

D : Two-thirds of one tenement, with appurtenances, in Tregonnon [Tregonan], Cornwall ; and two-thirds ofanother tenement, with appurtenances, in Treleswick [Trelissick], also of two other tenements, with appurtenances, in Morvell [Morval] and St. Martin. B : Richard Tremayne, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hanniball Vivian, his executors & assigns. H(b) 18 March, 31 Eliz. [1588/9]. H(c). H(d): £22-4-5 [sic]. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [2]. F : £22-4-4 from the precedingyear G : £44-8-9. :

J : [Postscripts as under preceding entry[2]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]4 [4] farm . A Hugh Cuffe, gent [lessee ] C : £8, being part of £75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10

D : The whole tenement called "Tregannon" , with appurtenances, and a whole tenement in "Ludcotte" , Cornwall, with appurtenances; being a parcel of the possessions of B: Richard Tremayn, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors & assigns H(b) : Michaelmas, 27 Eliz. [1585]. H(c) H(d) : £8 H(e) H(f) H(k) as in entry[2]. F : £8 from precedingyear. G : £16

J: [Postscripts as under entry [2]]

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[5] farm. A : Tenants

[Seized land Rental]5

CORNWALL 15 B : Thomas Arrundell alias Courtney of Clerkenwell, gent , recusant C : £2-13-4. D : One messuage and tenement, with appurtenances , in Paddistowe [Padstow], and other messuages, lands and tenements, with appurtenances , in Carlegas [Carloggas], Prespinneck [Prospidnick], Trengove [Trengrove], Pellawyn, Carwyngan [? Carwinnen], Polglase, Truthall [Trythall], Gwenna [Gwinear], Tresowes [Tresowas], Tretharrap and Hellegie [? Heligan], in Cornwall. E(a) : William Flannack, esq., & others. E(b) : 9 Nov., 34 Eliz [1592] E(d) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Cornub " . F: £2-13-4 from previous year. G : £5-6-8.

J : [Postscripts as under entry [2]]

[Seized land. Rental]6

[6] farm. A Tenants of two-thirds of the lands and tenements of B : Trevenor Rosecarrock, recusant C : £1-11s. D : A moiety of 4 messuages in Tregennon [Tregonan], of2 messuages in Tregarrick[? Trevarrack], and of 4 messuages in Gayre [Gear], with appurtenances , being a parcel ofthemanor of Lamoran [Lamorran], Cornwall E(a), (b), and (d), as in entry [5] F : £1-11s. from previous year. G : £3-2s.

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]]

[Seized goods& chattels]"

[7] Anthony Rous and George Kekewiche, esq , owe 18s. which they have taken ("quos [solidos] ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of Robert Beckett, esq., recusant Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz. [1589/90], under "Cornub'" [Postscripts as under entry[2]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[8] farm . A : Tenants. B : Peter Coffyn C : £4 D : Twothirds ofa certain tenement called "Tolcarne" , in theparishof Mawyan [Mawgan] in Pyder, of the yearly value of40s ; and of one tenement in Tredeneck [Tredinnick], called "Wilton" , in the parish of Decklo [Duloe], of the yearly value of £4. E(b) 3 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(a) : Richard Carewe, esq. , & others E(c) : Recusancy of the same Peter (Ed) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz, Hilary term , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ]. J: [Postscripts as under entry [2]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[9] farm . A Tenants B : William Han, lately of Maugan [Mawgan], "yoman" C : £5-6-8 D : Two-thirds of a third or fourth part of 2 closes of land in the parish of St.

Evattes [? St. Eval], in the possession ofDavid Arthure. E(b) and (a) as in entry [8]. E(c) : Recusancyofthe same William E(d) as in entry[8].

[*Seized land. Rental]

[10]farm. A Tenants B : Nicholas Burlace, latelyof Newlyn, gent C : £1-6-8. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Caryole [Cargoll], with appurtenances , in Newlyn aforesaid E(b) and (a) as in entry [8] E(c) : Recusancy of the same Nicholas. E(d) as in entry [8].

J: [Postscripts as under entry [2]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[11]farm . A Tenants B : Digory ("Digorius") Trevillian of St. Cleder [St. Clether], gent. C : £1-6-8 D : Two-thirds of a certain tenement called "Stapps" , with appurtenances, in the parish of Adven [Advent]. E(b) and (a) as in entry [8] E(c) Recusancyof the same Digory E(d) as in entry [8].

*[Seized land Rental]

[12]farm A: Tenants B : Elizabeth Arrundell , latelyof Maugan [Mawgan], widow. C : £6-13-4. D : Two-thirds of a certain close of land called "Cregmorycke" , with appurtenances, in the parish of St. Meryn [St. Merryn] E(b) and (a) as in entry [8]. E(c) Recusancy of the same Elizabeth. E(d) as in entry[8]. :

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

*[Seized land Rental]

[13]farm . A Tenants B : Alexander Bradley, lately of St. Erme, "yoman" . C : £6-13-4. D : Two-thirds of a certain tenement, with appurtenances, in St. Terme [St. Erme], lately in the occupation of the said Alexander. E(b) and (a) as in entry [8]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Alexander E(d) : as in entry[8]. J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Record ofannual finepaid]

[14] A John Arrundell , esq C. D : £260. E : From 21 Sept., 35Eliz. [1593]to 20 Sept. , 36Eliz. [1594], i.e. 13 [lunar]months. H. K. G.

P : On 4 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. And on 23 Nov., 37 Eliz. [1594], £120 was paid into theTreasury. And heis quit.

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears] [15] A

CORNWALLDERBY 17

The same sheriff, viz Thomas Lower, esq.

B : [2] £82-13-4 (Wingfeild). [3] £44-8-9 (Vivian). [4] £16 (Cuffe). [5] £5-6-8 (Thos. Arrundell's tenants). [6]

£3-2s (Rosecarrock's tenants) [7] 18s. (Rous etc.) [8] £4 (Coffyn's tenants). [10] £1-6-8 (Burlace's tenants). [12] £6-13-4 (Eliz Arrundell's tenants) [13] £6-13-4 (Bradley's tenants).

C : £171-2-1.

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under"Cornub'" .

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 16, 1. 16 seq. Cf. entry [15], E. Text as op cit , p 16 , 1. 33 seq . "Text as op cit, p.17 , 1. 6seq

5Text as op cit., p 17 , 1. 18 seq to" capt' & seisit'" . op cit, p 17 , 1. 30seq. "Textas op cit, p. 18, 1.12 . Textas

[rotulet 15, dorse]

[Preamble]

[1]

DERBYSHIRE

(" Derb'")

Francis Cocken, esq , sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. to Michaelmas, 36 Eliz , renders . . . [etc. as under Berkshire [ 1]].

*[Seized land. Rental] ...

[2] farm. A : Tenants oftwo-thirdsofthe lands and tenementsof B: ChristopherRolston,"yoman" ,recusant C: £3-6-8. D: One messuage in Rossington alias Roston, Derbyshire, with appurtenances. E(a) : Robert Aston , esq , & others E(b): 11 August, 33 Eliz. [1591]. E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz., Mich term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ F : £8-6-8 from previous years G : £11-13-4. ]. J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under" Derb " , after theirfarm.

[Seized goods& chattels]

[3] Robert Aston, esq., Thomas Alsopp and John Bamford , gents., owe £23 which they have taken ("quas [libras] ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of the aforesaid Christopher Rolston , recusant. Cf. Memoranda Roll [etc. as in entry [2], E(d)] [Postscript And they answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under Derb " .

[Seized land Rental]

[4] farm . A Tenants B : Nicholas Langford, esq., recusant. C : £98-3-4 & two-thirds ofa farthing. D: Two-thirds of

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) DERBY

the mansion house or manor of Longeford, Derbyshire ; and two-thirds of one park called "Longford Parke" , and of various other closes, farms, lands, tenements& hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Longeford aforesaid, ofthe clearyearly value (charges deducted) of £147-5-1. E(a) : John Manners , esq., & others E(b) : 14 Oct., 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Derb'" .

J: For which the sheriffanswers below² [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedunless ...

[Seized land. Rental]

[5] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirdsof a certain annuityof £100 per annum, and of one messuage or tenement, withcertain lands pertaining to it, in Tupton, Derbyshire C :3 £68-5-6 .

B: Constance ("Constancia") Fuliambe, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £220, by virtue of the aforesaid Act of the Parliament [begun] on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Derb'" . F : £68-5-6 from preceding year. G : £136-11-1 . [Further arrears] £68-5-6 for Humphrey Dethicke, esq , sheriffof 32 Eliz.; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz, under " Derb'" , viz. the rent for the year 32 Eliz [1590-91] and £68-5-6 for Thomas Greseley, esq , sheriff of 33 Eliz , ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Derb'" , viz the rent fortheyear 33 Eliz., [1591/2]. [Total debt] £273-2-3

J: [Postscriptsas under entry[4]].

[Seized land. Rental] [6] farm . A Tenants. D : Two-thirds oflands and tenements in Langford [Longford], Derbyshire C : £6-13-4. B : Nicholas Langford, esq., lately of Longford, recusant E(b) : 13 April, 33 Eliz [1591]. E(a) : John Harpur& John Bullock, esqs., & others E(c) : Recusancy of the aforesaid Nicholas E(d) cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Derb'" , "where the said rent is demanded from the aforesaid John Harpur & John Bullock, esqs "5 F : £6-13-4 from preceding year.

G : £13-6-8. [Further arrears] £10 for Thomas Greseley, esq., sheriff of 33 Eliz. , being the rent for the year 33 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Derb'" , "where the said rent ... [etc. as in E(d) above] [Total debt] £23-6-8

J: [Postscripts as under entry[4]].

*+[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[7] farm. A : Henry Merrye [lessee] C : £13-6-11 , for Michaelmas, 36Eliz., beingpartofan annual rent of£26-13-10.

D : The whole of a certain messuage, with appurtenances, in Sturson [? Sturston], in the tenure of JohnPalmer ofKegworth, Leics , recusant ; the whole of a certain messuage, with apps.,

in Brissingcote [Brizlincote], in the tenure of Edward Blount ; the whole of a certain messuage, with apps, in Lees Hill, in the tenure ofFrancis Starkye, gent.; and the wholeofa certain messuage, with apps. , in Westbroughton, Derbyshire, in the tenure of RichardSmithe, or his assigns : being two-thirds of the lands & possessions of ... B : The aforesaid John Palmer , recusant E(a) : John Harpur, esq., and others E(b) : "divided in separation from the above recusant's third part, and seized" on 28 March, 36 Eliz [1594]. H(a) : Aforesaid Henry Merrye, his executors& assigns H(b) : From 18 June , 36 Eliz. [1594]. H(c) H(d) : £5 for Palmer's messuage ; £13-16-8 for Blount's messuage ; £3-14s . for Starkye's messuage ; £4-3-2 for Smithe's messuage. H(e). H(k) : cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz. , under "Derb'" .

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[8] A The same sheriff, viz Francis Cocken, esq

B : [4] £98-3-4 & two-thirds of a farthing (Langford's tenants) [5] £273-2-3 (Fuliambe's tenants) [6] £23-6-8 (Langford's tenants)

C : £394-12-3 & two-thirdsofa farthing.

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant[ Roll, 37 Eliz., under " Derb'" . "The Act

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p. 28, 1. 17 seq. to "capta & seizita" . 2Cf. entry [8], E. 3A blank space is left in MS for "debent" apparently an oversight on the part of the scribe . ... ubi firma pred' exigitur sub nomine pred' Johannis Harpur & JohannisBullock Ar'" in MS. separalitat' a terciaparteRecusan' superius divis'et seisit" ... "'in MS . 28 Eliz , cap 6 54 "in

[rotulet 3b] [Preamble]

DEVONSHIRE

(" Devon"")

[1] William Strode, esq. , sheriff ofthis county from Mich , 35 Eliz toMich., 36 Eliz. , renders ... [etc. as Berkshire [ 1]].

[Lease of seized land . Rental]¹

[2] farm . John Clapham and Thomas Culliford [lessees ] C : £32

D : Two-thirds of the manor of East Ayshford, Devon ; and two-thirds ofthe manor of Butterley [Butterleigh], Devon , together with various other manors, messuages, lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz. , under " Devon'" . B: James Courtney, esq., recusant. H(b) : 25 March, 32 Eliz. [1590] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Devon""

F : £32 from precedingyear. G : £64 [Furtherarrears]£16

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) DEVON

for Thomas Ridgeway, esq , sheriff of 32 Eliz.; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Devon'" , being part of this rent for the year 31 Eliz.; cf. Great [Pipe] Rolls of 32 & 31 Eliz. , under " Devon'" [Total debt] £80.

J: And they [Clapham etc.] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Devon'" ,for this rent & the arrears

[Lease ofseized land Rental]²

[3] farm A Tenants B : Thomas Arrundell alias Courtney of Clerkenwell, Midd , gent , recusant C : £2-15s D : Twothirds ofa twelfth part of4 messuages, with appurtenances, in Bleckburye [Blegberry] ; of 2 messuages, with apps , in Becklondes [Beckland] ; of 250 acres of meadow & pasture landin Heandon [? Heanton Punchardon] ; of 70 acres ofmeadow & pasture land in Northdeerparke ; of 300 acres of meadow & pasture land in Greston, Firebeacons, Gosden Parke, Butterbimes & Whiteles, with other messuages, lands & tenementsin Norton, Yeapham, Rotheridge and Farford, Devon E(a) : John Docton, gent. , & others E(b) : 21 Oct., 34 Eliz [1592] E(d) cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under : F : £2-15s. from precedingyear. G : £5-10s

Devon'

[4]

J: For which the sheriffanswers below.³ [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless . . . .

[Seized land Rental]*

farm. A : Tenants. B : Nicholas Rosecarrocke of St. Clement Danes, Midd , gent , recusant C : 10s 8d D : Two-thirds ofa moiety of two messuages and tenements, with appurtenances, at Smythes Hill and Ashewater [Ashwater], Devon. E(a) and (b) as in entry [3]. F : 10s 8d. from precedingyear. G : £1-1-4. J: [Postscripts as under entry [3]]

*+[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[5] A Robert Seale, one of the yeomen-in-ordinary ("valect' ordinar"") of " les usshers" of the royal chamber [lessee] C: £14-10-22d D : Two-thirds(1) of the manor ofParkeham [Parkham], Devon, with appurtenances; (2) of the manor ofBuckysshe [Buckish], withapps , inthe parish ofWoolfridisworthie[Woolfardisworthy ], Devon ; (3) of the manorof Horton, with apps., in the parish of Bradworthie, Devon ; (4) ofthe manor ofUpcott, with apps , inthe parish ofWelcom [Welcombe], Devon ; (5) of the manor of Torrington alias Torrington Tadpoole, with apps , in the parishes of Great Torrington & Litle Torrington, Devon ; (6) of 30 messuages and 40 acres of land, with apps , in the parish ofOkehampton, Devon (7) of one messuage and one garden, with apps., in Shipwash [Sheepwash], Devon ; (8) of one messuage & 40

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) DEVON 21

acres ofland, with apps , in Higheanton [Highampton], Devon ; (9) ofone messuage & 30 acres ofland, with apps , in Buckland Bruer [Buckland Brewer], Devon ; (10) of one messuage & 40 acres of land, with apps , in Allington, Devon ; (11) of a third part of one messuage & 60 acres of land, with apps., in Crabbdon [Crabadon], in the parish of Dipford [Diptford], Devon ; (12) of the reversion of one messuage & 40 acres of land in Herberton [Harberton], Devon ; (13) of 2 messuages, 2 gardens & 44 acres ofland, withapps., inAllington aforesaid ; (14) of2 messuages & 12 acres of land, with apps. , inAbbotesham [Abbotsham]; (15) of one messuage & 80 acres ofland, with apps., in Buckland Bruer, Devon ; (16) of one messuage & 30 acres of land, with apps , in Parkeham aforesaid ; also two-thirds (17) of one messuage in Wadebridge, in the parish of St. Breock, Cornwall; (18) of one messuage in the parish of Bodmyn, Cornwall; and (19) ofone messuage or tenement in the parish of St. Tethe [St. Teath], Cornwall B : Giles Risden, lately of Bableygh [Bableigh] in the said parish of Parkham, Devon, gent , recusant E(b) : 21 June, 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) Robert Rolles & others H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Seale, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593]. H(c). H(d) : For (1)5 4s 5d. & twothirds of d. until 12 Dec., 1599, thereafter £6-13-4; for (2), 13s 4d.; for (3), £2 ; for (4), 4s 5d & two-thirds of d.; for (5), 4s. 5d. & two-thirds of d until 12 Dec., 1599, thereafter £4 ; for (6), d. & two-thirds of d. until 12 Dec., 1599, thereafter £8-17-9 & two-thirds of d.; for (7), 3s 4d & two-thirds of 1d.; for (8), 17-9d. & two-thirdsof d.; for (9), 4s 5d. & two-thirds of d.; for (10), 10s 8d.; for (11), 13s 4d.; for (12), d. & two-thirdsof d.; for (13), £4-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d.; for (14), £1-2-2 & two-thirds of 1d.; for (15), £1-15-6 & two-thirds of 1d. ; for (16), 5s 4d ; for (17), 4s 5d & two-thirds of d.; for (18), 6s 8d ; for (19), 10s 8d H(e) H(k) : Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 31 Eliz., under" Devon'" . J: [Postscripts as under entry [3]]

*+[Lease ofseized land Rental]. [6] farm . A Robert Seale, one of the yeomen-in-ordinary of "les usshers" of the royal chamber [lessee]. C : £9-5-5 & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds (1) of one messuage in the borough of Zeal ("Burgo de Zeale"), Devon, and of 12 acres of arable & 4 acres of meadow , with appurtenances; (2) of a water-mill in Zeale ; (3) of one messuage or tenement, with apps., in Colluber [Collibear], in the parish of Southtawton [South Tawton], Devon ; (4) of one tenement, with apps., in Yandicott [Yendacott], in the aforesaid parish ; (5) of one messuage in Southtowton [South Tawton] aforesaid ; (6) of

ROLL2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) DEVON

one cottage in Southtowton aforesaid ; (7) of 3 tenementsin Plumpton Marie [Plympton St. Mary], Devon ; (8) of 2 tenements in Dotscombe Leighe [Doddiscombsleigh], Devon ; (9) of one tenement in Inwardley [Inwardleigh] ; (10) of one messuage in Chagford ; (11) of4 acres of land in the parish of Southtowton aforesaid, in the tenure of a certain John Bright. B : William Burgen, alias Burgan, alias Burgoyn, lately of South Zeale in the parish of Southtowton aforesaid, gent , recusant. E(b) : 21 June, 35 Eliz [1593]. E(a) : Robert Rolles, gent., and others H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Seale, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593]. H(c). H(d) : For (1)5 £3-6-8 ; for (2), £ 1-6-8; for (3), £1-6-8 ; for (4), £ 1-6-8 ; for (5), 1s 4d ; for (6), 1d. & two-thirds of d.; for (7), 4s.; for (8), 3s 4d.; for (9), 2s. 8d.; for (10), 8d.; for (11), £1-6-8. H(e) H(k) : as in entry[5].

J: On 2 May, 31 Eliz., [1594], £4-12-9 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 6 Nov., 36Eliz. [1594], £4-12-9 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Seale] is quit.

[Statement of sheriff's arrears] [7] A

The same sheriff, viz William Strode , esq.

B : [3] £5-10s. (Arrundell's tenants). [4] £1-1-4 (Rosecarrock's tenants). [5] £14-10-2 (Seale).

C : £21-1-6 .

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under " Devon'" .

[Enrolment of estreated conviction for recusancy] [8] A Bridget Roe, wife of Christopher Roe of Wooll [Well] in the parish of Stoke Gabriell, Devon, gent C. D : £260.

F : £240 G. H. J For 12 months from 10 July, 36 Eliz [1594]. L £20. M : Mondayin 2nd week of Lent, 38 Eliz. [8 March, 1595/6] N: From date of conviction till 6 April next i.e. one [lunar] month. O.

P : But she oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt] byconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 4 James I [1606], Mich term, "Recorda" section , rotulet[ And she is quit [L . Margin] Let a commission beissued . " ].

'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 35, 1. 5 seq. Text as op cit, p 35, 1. 19 seq to " capt' et seisit'" as op cit , p 35 , I. 33 seq

2Cf. entry (7), E. Text

The bracketedfigures refer to the numberedproperties above , in the text of this entry. The items are not numbered in the original. 6"fi[at] Commissio" in MS

[rotulet 19, dorse]

[Preamble]

DORSETSHIRE

(" Dors'")

[1] George Moreton, esq. , sheriff of this county from Mich , 35 Eliz ., to Mich 36 Eliz., renders . .. [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[2] farm . A William Arrundell, esq. [lessee]. C : £19-13-9.

D: Two-thirds of the manor of Brodwey [Broadway], with appurtenances, in Dorset, together with other manors , messuages & lands, with apps , inDorset, specified in thepreceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Dors "" ; 1 also two-thirds of a third part ofthe manor ofTrent,Somerset , with apps .. B :William Gerrard of Clerkenwell, Midd., gent. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid William Arrundell, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 15 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e).

H(f). H(k) cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Dors'

J: On 1 May 36 Eliz [1594], £9-17-5 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 28 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £9-17-5 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Arrundell] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]2

[3] farm . A John Hopkynson [lessee] C : £6-13-4, being part [of an original annual rent] of £10-13-4. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Godlingston, alias Godlinston , in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, with appurtenances . B : Henry Wells , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Hopkynson, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 3 Nov., 32 Eliz. [1590] H(c) H(d) : £6-13-4. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry [2].

J: On 19 April 36, Eliz [1594], £3-6-8 was paid from this farm into theTreasury. And on 15 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594] £3-6-8 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Hopkynson] is quit.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[4] farm . A Tenants B : Dorothy Kellway, recusant, wife of Robert Kellway, gent C : £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a moiety of one messuage & 300 acres of meadow & pasture land in TarrantHynton, Dorset E(a) : SirGeorgeTrenchard, knt , & others. E(b) : 24 April, 35 Eliz [1593]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F : £6-13-4 from preceding year. G : £20

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be chargedhenceforthbyconsideration ofthe Barons [ofthe Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And they are quit.

[5]

-

[6]

[Seized goods & chattels]

Richard Okeford of Hamperton [? Hampreston], "yoman" , recusant, owes 10s .for the price or value ofhis goods& chattels similarlytaken & seized into the Queen'shandsbythe aforesaid commissioners ; as is contained above"

[Seized goods & chattels]

David Yonge of Henton Marye [Hinton St. Mary], "yoman" , recusant, owes 11s . . . [etc. as in entry [5]].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[7] John Gould of Cramborne [Cranborne], "yoman" , owes £3-3-10[etc. as in entry[5]].

[8]

[Seized goods & chattels]

William Symes of Netherbury, "yoman" , owes £1 .. . [etc. as in entry [5]].

Cf. C.R.S. , XVIII, pp 36-37 . to "pro tempore existen'" bracketed , R., with the note : Total of these 4 debts-£5-4-10 . They delivered this sum ("liberaverunt") in the Treasury on 25 May, 35 Eliz [1593], under the name of John Williams, esq., sheriff. And theyarequit. "In entry [4] : i.e. Sir George Trenchard, knt, & others, on 24 April, 35 Eliz [1593]

[rotulet 5]

[Preamble]

ESSEX

Text as op .cit , p 40, I. 18 seq. 3Entries [5] to [8] inclus are

(" Essex'")

[1] Humphrey Mildemay, esq , sheriff of this countyfrom Mich. , 35 Eliz., to Mich., 36 Eliz, renders . ..[etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Thomas Gentt, esq , Second Baron oftheQueen's Exchequer [lessee] C : £36-7-8 D : A full moiety ofthe manor of Great Sampford, and the whole manor ofCanfeild ; alsothewhole manor ofBloys, a completewindmill, anda whole tenement , now or lately in the tenure or occupation ofRobert Pettytt, in Essex B : Richard Greene , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Gentt, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 19 June, 31 Eliz , [1589]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f). H(k): Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Essex' J: On 24 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £18-3-10 was paid into the Treasuryfrom this farm, under the names of the administrators of Thomas Grente [sic], esq .. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £18-3-10 was paid ... [etc. as above] . under the names of the administrators ofThomas Gente , esq. And he [Gentt] is quit

MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[Lease of seized land Rental]2

[3] farm . A John Gerrard [lessee] C : £6-13-4 . D : Twothirdsofonemessuage, and ofvarious other lands & tenements, with appurtenances , in Walthamstowe, Essex. B : Thomas Hayle, gent , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Gerrard, his executors & assigns H(b) : "From the time when the lease and grant ofthe same premises , by letters-patent, to a certain William Whiskins, esq. , in 28 Eliz. [1585-6], for thepayment of £100, shall have been finally vacated ("vacari"), completedand terminated" . H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry[2]. F : £23-6-8from previous years G : £30

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]³

[4] farm . A Henry Marwood [lessee] C : £6-13-4 D : Two-thirds of one tenement, and of certain lands in Bulmer, Essex ; and of various other messuages, lands & tenementsin Northbemflete [North Benfleet] & elsewhere in Essex , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under "Item Essex'" . B : John Danyell, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Henry Marwood & his assigns H(b) : From 20 March, 32 Eliz [1589/90] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry [2].

J: On 19 April, 36Eliz. [1594], £3-6-8 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury And on the last day of Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £3-6-8 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Marwood] is quit

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]4

[5] farm . A Francis Mannock, gent. [lessee] C : £4 D :

Two-thirds of various lands, tenements& hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Bulmer and other villages in Essex B : Richard Martin, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Francis Mannock, his executors & assigns H(b) : From [ ]5 March, 32 Eliz. [1589/90]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) as in entry [2]

J : On 19 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £2 was paid from this farm into theTreasury And on 30 Oct., 36Eliz. [1594], £2 was paid.. [etc. as above] And he [Mannock] is quit

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[6] farm . A Ralph Smythe, gent [lessee] C : £24 D:

One house, called "le mannor house of Bacons" , and 70 acres ofland,withall appurtenances; andvarious other &tenements , with apps., in Essex being a parcel ofthe lands& possessions of.B Ambrose Jermyn, lately of Barneby [ ? Barnby , co. Suffolk], esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Ralph Smythe & his assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c) H(d): as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry[2].

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £12 was paidfrom this farm

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) ESSEX

into theTreasury. And on the last day of Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £12 was paid .. . [etc. as above] And he [Smythe] is quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[7] farm . A Robert Seale, one of the yeoman of the royal chamber [lessee] C : £14-9-4. D : The whole manor of Chary [Cherry], with all its rights, members& appurtenances, in the parish of Brocksteed [Brocksted] ; and various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Strethall and elsewhere in Essex of the lands and possessions of . .. B : Thomas Crawley, esq. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Seale & his assigns H(b) : From 11 June, 31 Eliz [1589] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry[2]

J : On 24 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £7-4-8 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £7-4-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Seale] isquit

[Lease of seized land Rental]8

[8] farm . A Hugh Cuffe, gent. [lessee]. C : £1-10s. , being part of£75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10. D : Two whole cottagesor tenements, with appurtenances, in Barkinge, Essex being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B . William Tucker, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuff, his executors & assigns H(b) : Michaelmas, 27 Eliz [1585]. H(c) . . . "for the satisfaction of the debt of the said William Tucker" . H(d) : £ 1-10s. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as inentry[2]. F : £1-10s. from precedingyear. G: £3.

[Seized land. Rental]⁹

[9] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of 4 acres of land in Westham [West Ham], in the tenure or occupation of William Townesend C : £1-15-7 B : Lady Margaret Throckmorton, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by reason of her recusancy E(a) : Francis Blythe, esq., & Laurence Bingham, gent. E(b) : 13 Sept. , 31 Eliz. [1589]. E(d) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Essex'" . F: £8-0-1 from previous years G : £9-15-8 . : J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be chargedhenceforthby consideration ofthe Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And they are quit.

[Seized land. Rental]10

[10] farm . A Tenants. C : £1-15-62d D : Two-thirds of 4 acres of marsh-land, lying in Newmarshe, in the parish of Westham [West Ham], Essex, in the tenure or occupation of Joan Smythe, widow, of Greenstreet, or her assigns. B :

Lady Margery Throgmorton, who is indebted to theQueen in the sum of£140, by reason of her recusancy E(a) : "commissioners" . E(b) : Last day of Sept. , 33 Eliz. [1591] E(d) as in entry [9]. F : £3-11-1 from previous years.. G : £5-6-8

J: Butthey [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth , for the reason referred to immediately above, under the farm of the tenants of two-thirds of4 acres oflandin Westham, ofthe lands&tenements of Lady Margaret Throckmorton . And they are quit.

[Seized land. Rental]12

[11] farm . A : Tenants B : Katherine Stone , recusant C : £4-8-10 . D : Two-thirds of one mansion house & 5 acres ofland inWalden, Essex , in the occupation ofGeorgeNicholls, gent B : The aforesaid Katherine, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by reason of her recusancy . E(a) : "aforesaid commissioners".13 E(b) as in entry [10]. E(d) : as in entry[9].

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth ,for the reason given under thefarmofthesaidtenants in the preceding[Recusant] Roll, under" Essex'" . And they are quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[12] farm . A William Twittye, gent [lessee ] C : £22-16-8. D : The whole manor, with appurtenances , in Toppesfield, Essex , in the tenure or occupation of John Wade14 & others,or theirassigns ; the whole messuage or [? "tenement”—omitted], with apps, called, "Carbonells" , situated & existing in Wickes [Wix], Essex, in the tenure or occupation ofJohn Wade or his assigns ; and thewhole messuage ortenement called "Bellows" with apps , [? "situated"-omitted] & existing in Highe Ester [High Easter], Essex ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps, in Co. Suffolk, specifiedin the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Essex'" :15 being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : William Mannock , junior, lately of Stoke juxta Naylond [Stoke by Nayland], Suffolk, gent., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid William Twitty, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 3 May, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Essex'" 15 :

J: On 22 April, 36Eliz [1594], £11-8-4 was paidfromthisfarm intotheTreasury And on 28 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £11-8-4was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Twittye] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]16

[13]farm . A Tenants B : William Wiseman, esq. , recusant C : £28-13-4 D : Two-thirds of the manor ("manerii") J

2. MICH. 35-36

. (1593-4)

of Brocholls [? Brockholds], Mockinhall and Welbarnes, in Radbenter [Radwinter], Thaxstede [Thaxsted] and Barlinge ; of one farm called "Brodockes" , in Wimbisshe ; and of other messuages, lands & tenements in Thaxstede, Finchingfeild , Debden and Felstede, Essex E(a) : Jerome ["Jerominus"] Weston, esq., & others E(b) : 10 April, 34 Eliz [1592]. E(d) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Essex'" .

:

J: On 27 May, 37 Eliz [1595], they [tenants] delivered¹7 [this rent] in the Treasury And they are quit.

[Seized land. Rental]18

[14]farm. A Tenants B : Richard White, lately of London , gent , recusant . C : £6-13-4. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Runwell, with appurtenances, in Runwell; and of the manor or farm called "Herberts" , with apps , in Rawleighe [Rayleigh]and Hockley , Essex E(b) : 1 Feb. , 35 Eliz [1592/3].

E(a) : Laurence Bingham & others E(d) : as in entry [13].

J: But they [tenants] oughtnot to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth , for the reason referred to under the farm of the said tenants in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Essex'" . And they are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]19

[15]farm. A Thomas Webber, a groom of the Queen's private kitchen [lessee ] C : £4 D : Two-thirds of the rectory of Bulmer, Essex, lately in the tenure of Richard Howlbrooke& William Bragge; and of one tenement, with appurtenances, in Bulmer, in the tenure ofRobert Lyster ; also of one tenement, with apps , in Ballenden [Ballingdon], Essex B : John Danyell, lately of Acton, Co. Suffolk, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Webber, his executors & assigns. H(b):

From 14 July, 34 Eliz [1592] H(c) H(d) : as C.

H(f). H(k) as in entry[12]

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £2 was paid from this farm into the Treasury And on the last day of Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £2 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Webber] is quit. H(e)

[Seized land Rental]

[16]farm. A : William Elinge, a yeoman ("valectus") of the chamber royal [lessee] C : £6-13-4. D : The wholemanor of Herberts, with appurtenances , in Rayleigh [Rawleigh], Rawreth & Hockley or elsewhere in Essex ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Essex, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Essex'": 20 beinga parcel ofthe lands& tenementsof ... B : Richard White of London, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Elinge, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 30 March, 35 Eliz [1593]. H(c). H(d) : "£6-13-4 for the said

manor called"Herberts" ,withapps , andfor a parcelofmeadow , grazing & pasture lands, with apps , called "Chawdell Shotte" , "Putford Hill" , "Roughe Close" , "the great meadowe" , & "Chapples Vise" , during a term of 14 years next following Ladyday, 34 Eliz [1592] ; and £33-6-8 thereafter, for the term of the present lease. And £4-8-10 & two thirds of 1d . for two-thirds of the reversion of the manor of Thundersley, after the death of Katherine White, mother of the aforesaid Richard" , H(e) H(k) : as in entry[12]

J: On 18 April, 26 Eliz. [1594], £3-6-8 was paid from this farm into theTreasury. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £3-6-8 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Elinge] is quit.

[Lease ofseized land

Rental]21 [17]farm . A Thomas Dickenson, a groom of "le pastrie"22 [lessee] C : £6. D: The whole manor, messuage or farm called "Weald, alias Weald Barnes" , in the parish ofDebden , Essex ; and the whole messuage orfarm called "YardleyHall" in the hamlet ofWymbisshe [Wimbish], in the parish ofThaxstede , Essex , with appurtenances: being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : JaneWisemanofWymbysshe, widow , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Dickenson, his executors & assigns H(b) From 20 June, 35 Eliz , [1593]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) as in entry [12] F : £3 for the last part ofthe precedingyear G : £9. J: For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of this roll.23 [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless .. .

[rotulet5, dorse]

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[18] A The same sheriff, viz Humphrey Mildmay, esq. B E : [17] £9 (Dickenson). And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under 66 Essex'" .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]24

[19]A John Moore of Layghton [Layton], Essex, gent. B. D : £160. F : £ 120 G. H. J : For 6 months from 20 Dec., 37 Eliz [1594] L : £40 M : Thursday, 26 Feb. ,

38 Eliz. [1595/6] N : From day of conviction to 22 April, 38 Eliz [1596], i.e. 2 [lunar] months O.

Ralph Worsley of Dagenham, Essex , gent , alias Hugh Worsley ofthe same , gent 25 [ ] £160 forthelike.

Alice Worsley, wife of the said Ralph [ ]

Dorothy Worsley ofthe same , "spinster" [ Elizabeth Worsley of the same , "spynster" ] [ ]

)

Mary Worsley ofthe same, "spynster " ( ) £160 for the like

Alice Worsley, jun., of the same , "spynster"

EdwardWorsley of the same , gent

John Worsley of the same, gent .

GeorgeWharton of Hutton, Essex , gent

Joan Wynterfludd of Little Canfeild, Essex, widow .

Margaret Terryll of Downeham, Essex , "spynster" .

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 42 Eliz [1600-1], under thefarm of the tenants of the landsof the aforesaidMargaret Tyrrell [sic] And she is quit.

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p. 110, 1. 36 seq . to "remanere contigerint" . *Text as op cit., p 111 , 1. 34 seq (withvariant phrasings) to"equales pore'" . Text as op cit, p 112 , 1. 5 seq (withvariant phrasings) to " equales porc' ibidem" "Text as op. cit, p. 112 , 1. 23 seq (with variant phrasings) to " equales porcionesibid"" . "A space is left inMS for thedayofthemonth. p. 112, 1. 38 seq to "remanere contigerint" . "Textasop cit 7Text as op cit , 8Text as op cit, p 113, 1. 17 seq. to "remanere contigerint" p 113, 1. 40 seq (with variant phrasings ) to "equales porciones "

Text as op cit, p 114, 1. 9 seq to" capt' et seisit"" as op. cit., p. 114 , 1. 27 seq. to capt' et seisit'" stated

10Text 11Namesnot 12Text as op cit , p 114 , 1. 40 seq to" capt' et seisit'" 13Names not stated : the same persons as thosereferredto in entry [10], E(a) 14Not "JohnCosyn" , asin op cit, p 115. 15Cf 16Text as op cit , p 116, 1. 29 seq. to 17"lib[eraverunt]" in MS. op. cit ., pp 115-116 " capt' et seisit'" op. cit , p. 117, 1. 1 seq to " capt' et seisit'"

18Text as 19Text as 20Cf. 22A still-room op. cit., p. 117 , 1. 20 seq to " Com' Suff' gen' recusantis" Cf. op. cit., pp. 119-120 op. cit ., p. 118 attendant 23Cf. entry [18], E. 24All the entries under this heading are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). 25The brackets here and in entries below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) oftheword "debet" (owes) Cf. Introd,p. xcix.

[rotulet 6] [Preamble]

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

("Glouc" ")

[1 ] Sir John Davers, ¹ knt , sheriff of this county from Mich., 35 Eliz.,toMich , 35 Eliz, renders ... [etc. as Berkshire [1]]

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]2

[2] farm . A Francis Thynne, gent [lessee] C : £20 D : Two-thirdsofa moiety ofcertain water-mills, called "Whellford

Mills" , in the parish of Kemsford[Kempsford], Gloucs.; and ofa moietyof certain pasture, meadow & grazing lands, called "Dudgrove" , in the said parish, with all appurtenances ,now or latelyin the occupation of John Doule B : John Hitcheman , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Francis Thynne & his assigns H(b) From 7 March, 31 Eliz [1588-9]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Great[Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under" Glouc"" . F: £60 from previous years. G : £80. 3

J: But he [Thynne] ought not to be summoned for this [rent] nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, because answer has beenmadeto the Queenfor£40for the aforesaid2 years from thisfarm (which was foundfor the Queen by an inquisition dated 14 January, 31 Eliz. [1588/9], and enrolled among Commissions & Letters-Patent,5 Trinity term, L.T.R., andthereupon leased to the aforesaid Francis Thynne , as said above) viz. by Sir Henry Poole, knt., & Thomas Lucy, esq., successive sheriffs of this countyfor the years 30 & 31 Eliz., viz. £20 by each of them; as is more fully stated in the Great [Pipe] Rolls, 30 & 31 Eliz, under " Res Glouc" " , preserved here in the custody of the engrosser ofthepresentroll. And he [Thynne] is quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]® [3] farm . A: Hugh Cuffe, gent. [lessee]. C : £20, being part of £75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10. D : The whole farm or grange called "Woolaston Graunge" , also the whole farm called "Tedenham, alias Tednam" , Gloucs., with all woods and underwood, and appurtenances in the saidcounty: being a parcelofthe goods& chattelsof ... B : Thomas Somersett, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas , 27 Eliz. [1585]. H(c) : .. . "for the satisfaction ofthedebtof the aforesaid Thomas Somersett" . H(d) : £20 H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [2] F : £20 from precedingyear G: £40. [Further arrears] And £100 for William Dutton, esq. , sheriff of this county for the year 32 Eliz.; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz, under " Res' Glouc" " , viz from this farm for the year 32 Eliz., and its arrears ; cf. the said Great [Pipe] Roll of 32 Eliz., under " Glouc'" . [Total debt] £140 J: For which the sheriffanswers below . " [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Seized land Rental]8

[4] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of 4 messuages and other lands, with appurtenances, in Staunton and Eldersfeild, Worcestershire ; and of one tenement or messuage & certain arable lands in Corse, Gloucs .. C : £7-1-4 . B : William Bradstock of Corse aforesaid, gent , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £120, by virtue of an Act¹0 ofthe

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) GLOS.

Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) as in entry [2], H(k) F : £7-1-4 from precedingyear. G : £14-2-8.

[Seized land. Rental]11

[5] farm. A Tenants B : Thomas Bradford, "yoman" , recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £60, by reason of his recusancy. C : £2-4-6 D : Two-thirds ofone messuage or tenementin Cirencester, in a certain street called "Gosdiche Street" ; and of one messuage or tenement (copyhold)12 in Ebnoy [Epney] E(a) : Sir Thomas Throgmorton, knt., & others E(b) : 23 March, 34 Eliz [1591/2] E(d) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Glouc"" . F: £4-9s. from previous years. G : £6-13-6.

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Seized goods & chattels]13

[6] Thomas Bradford, lately of Cirencester, "yoman" , recusant, owes £66-6-8, charged upon himself, for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the said Thomas, taken and seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners; as is contained above . 14

[Postscripts as under entry [3]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]15

[7] farm . A Thomas Keyes, one of the Queen's cooks-inordinary[lessee ] C : £4-8-10 & half d. D : Two-thirds of a certain lease of one pasture called "the towne furlonge"; and ofanother pasturecalled"the orchard" , withappurtenances in Mickleton, Gloucs. B : Thomas Porter, recusant. H(b) : From 15 Feb., 31 Eliz [1588/9]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e)

H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under Glouc'

F : £22-4-5& half d . from previous years G : £26-13-32 .

J: But he [Keyes] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be charged henceforthbyconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he [Keyes] is quit

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[8] A The same sheriff, viz Sir John Davers , ¹ knt

B : [3] £140 (Cuffe). [5] £6-13-6 (Biadford'stenants).

C : £213-0-2.

[6] £66-6-8 (Bradford).

D [3] Cuffe answers for £140 in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under" Glouc"" , afterhisfarm . 16

[5] Bradford's tenants answer for £6-13-6 in same roll (loc cit)16

[6] Bradford answers for £66-6-8 in same roll (loc. cit.)16

[9]

E : And he [sheriff] is quit.

[Arrearage of rent]

A Tenants D : Two-thirds of 4 messuages and other lands, with appurtenances, in Staunton & Eldersfeld [Eldersfield], Worcestershire ; and of one tenement or messuage and certain arable land in Corse, Gloucs F : £28-5-4 for Sir John Poyntes, knt , sheriff of 33 Eliz. , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Res' Glouc'" , being the rent (£7-1-4) of this farm for the year 33 Eliz , with arrears ; cf. same roll, under " Glouc'" B : William Bradstock of Corse aforesaid, gent , recusant.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], for a reason referred to in thefollowing [Recusant] Roll, under " Glouc"" , in this samefarm. And they [tenants] are quit

1Sic, for Danvers *Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p 123 1. 1 seq (with variant phrasings ) to "xxxiijeloin Glouc'" 3The phrase "to the Receipt of the Exchequer" , omitted in op cit , is present in this MS *Text is as follows : "Sed non deb' inde sum' Nec deeadem firma decetero onerariEo quodrespons' est domineRegine nunc de xl lib de eadem firma pro pred' duobus ann' repert' pro eadem domina Regina per inquisic' dat' xiiijto die Januarii anno xxxjmo & irrotul' inter commission ' & litteras paten' de termino sancte Trin' rotulo [ ] ex parte Rem' Thes' ac superinde dimiss' prefat' Franc' Thynneut prefertur viz perHenr' Poolemil'& Thom' Lucy ar' nuper succ' vic' com' pred' de ann' xxxmo & xxjmo eiusdem Regine viz per utrumque eor' xx lib prout in separal' magnis rotulis de ann' xxxmo& xxxjmo in res' Glouc' hic in custod ' ingrossat' huius rotuli plenius liquet & apparet Et quietus est" L.T.R. Memoranda Roll, under this sub-heading op cit , p 123, 1. 16 seq (with variant phrasings) [8],D. Text as op. cit., p 123, 1. 30 seq in C.R.S. (loc cit) 10The Act 28 Eliz , cap 6 op, cit.. p 123 , 1. 38 seq to "capt' et seisit" . rotulorum curie" in MS (lit. "bycopyofthecourt-rolls") as op cit , p. 124, 1. 9 seq to" sicutcont'ibid'" E(a) & (b) Glouc'"

5I.e. , in the "Text as Cf. entry "Not £7-10s , as 11Text as 12"per copiam 13Text 14Cf . entry [5], 15Text as op cit , p. 124, 1. 36 seq. to"xxxjmo in 16Note inL.margin : It is answered("r[espondet]ur") The sheriff(Davers) was thereforedischarged of this amount.

[rotulet 18]

[Preamble]

HAMPSHIRE

(" Sutht"")

[1] Richard Milles, esq , sheriff ofthis countyfrom Mich., 35 Eliz , to Mich., 36 Eliz , renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [ 1]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Hugh Cuff, gent [lessee] C : £24-13-4, the remainder of [an original rent of] £72-18-4 . D : Two whole

messuages & tenements, with appurtenances , in Axor [Axford] and Nutlett [Nutley], Hants ; and the whole site or messuage called "Langred" , with apps , in Ileffeld [Ellisfield], Hants ; alsothe whole rectory ofPreston Candover & Nutlett aforesaid, Hants being a parcel of the possessions of ... B : William Hoorde H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 2 March, 26 Eliz [1583/4] H(c) : "for the satisfaction ofthedebt ofthe aforesaidWilliam Hoorde' H(d) £24-13-4. H(e). H(f) H(k) : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Sutht' " . F : £148 from previous years. G : £172-13-4 .

[Lease of seized land Rental]²

[3] farm . A John Stockman, gent [lessee ] C : £9 D : The manor ofLydshott[Ludshott], Hants , with all rights, members & appurtenances of the lands & tenementsof ... B : Alice Knight, widow, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Stockman , his executors& assigns H(b) : From25 Nov., 27 Eliz [1584] H(c) "forthe satisfaction ofthe debt ofthe saidAliceKnight" . H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2]. F : £9 from the preceding year. G : £18.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³

[4] farm . A: John Stockman, gent [lessee ] C: £17-5s. D: The whole manor of Godfeild & Swarrowton, alias Swallowton [Swarraton], with all its rights, members & appurtenancesin Hants.; of the lands & tenements of . .. B : Robert Knight, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Stockman, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 25 Nov., 27 Eliz [1584] H(c) : "for thesatisfaction ofthe debt ofthe said Robert Knight" H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) as in entry [2]

J: On the last day of April, 36 Eliz [1594], £8-12-6 was paid from this farm into the Treasury And on 28 Oct. , 36 Eliz. [1594], £8-12-6 was paid ... [etc. as above]

[Seized land Rental] And he [Stockman] is quit

[5] A Tenants D : Two-thirdsof lands, tenements& hereditaments in [ ] Hants B : Richard Warneford, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,540, by virtue of a certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz C : £12-8-10 . E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Sutht'"

J: For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of this rotulet . " [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless ....

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]8

[6] farm. A William Stile, gent [lessee] C : £78-3-10 % , the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-17-22 . D : Two-thirds

of the manor of Idesworth [Idsworth], with all its rights, members & appurtenances in Hants ; together with various other manors, messuages, lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 29 Eliz. , under "Adhuc Item Sutht'" .

B : Edward Banyster, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Stile, his executors& assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 30 Eliz [1588] H(c) H(d) : £78-3-10 . H(e) H(f) H(k) as in entry[2]

J: On 26 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £39-2s was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury Andon4 Nov. , 36 Eliz. [1594], £39-2s was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Stile] is quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]⁹ [7] farm . A Sir James Marvin, knt [lessee ] C : £72-4-41.

D: Two-thirdsofthe capital houseor messuage ofthe manor of Westbury, with all the meadow, grazing & pasturelands on the south-east side of a certain high road leading to Eastmean [East Meon], Hants ; together with various other messuages and lands, arable & pasture, specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under " Item Sutht"" . B : William Fawkenor , gent , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Sir James Marvyn, knt., his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 30 Eliz [1588] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry[2].

J: On 29 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £38-2-2 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 23 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594] £38-2s . [sic] was paid. ... [etc. as above] And he [Marvin] is quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]10

[8] farm. A Charles Pagett, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £16-4-6, ofa certain rent of£65-16-61 & half d. D : Two-thirds of the farm at Woodcotes [Woodcote], near Alefford [Alresford], Hants. , with 250 acres of land pertaining to it ; and of an annual rent ("redditus") of £2-13-4. B : Anthony Uvedall, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Charles Pagett, his executors&assigns H(b) : From 30 May, 31 Eliz [1589] H(c). H(d) : £16-4-6 H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2]. J: [Postscripts as under entry[5]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]11

[9] farm . A Thomas Hixon [lessee]. C : £71-16-0 , the remainder [of an original rent of] £89-1-2 d. D : Two-thirds ofthe reversion ofthe manor ofBrembridge [Brambridge], with appurtenancesin Hants ; togetherwithvarious other messuages, lands & tenementsin Hants. and Dorset, specifiedin the Great [Pipe ] Roll, 30 Eliz , under "Adhuc Item Sutht'" B : Gilbert Wells, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Hixon & his assigns H(b) : From 4 Feb. , 31 Eliz. [1588/9].

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) HANTS

H(c). H(d) : £71-16-01 . H(e). H(f). H(k): as in entry[2].

J: On 18 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £35-18-0 was paidfrom this farminto theTreasury. Andon7 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594],£35-18-0 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Hixon] is quit

[Seized land. Rental]12

[10]farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a certain annuityor annual rent issuing from certain lands & tenements in Elleffeild [? Ellisfield] & Preston Candover, Hants C : £7-11-2. B : Lady Pawlett, widow, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £180 , by virtue of a certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : as in entry[5].

J: [Postscripts as under entry[5]]

[Lease of seized land

Rental]13

[11]farm. A John Peirson & Thomas Culleford [lessees]. C: £42-8-10 . D : Two-thirds of 2 tenements lying in Preston Candover & Nutley, Hants , now in the tenure of William Ryland & Richard Woodward or their assigns ; together with various other lands & tenementsspecifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz. , under " Item Southt'" . B : William Hoorde, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Peirson& Thomas Culleford , theirexecutors& assigns. H(b): From Michaelmas, 32 Eliz. [1590] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2]. F: £169-15-6 from previous years. G : £212-4-4 .

[Lease of seized land

Rental]14

[12]farm . A George Burley, gent [lessee] C : £2-13-4, & 1 peppercorn. D : Two-thirds of one lease, for a term of some years to come (" divers' annor' futuror "), of a site or manor called "Middleton, alias Longeparisshe" [Long Parish], Hants.; and two-thirds of the manor of Deverells Langbridge [Longbridge Deverill], Wilts.; together with various other lands, tenements, woods & rents specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Item Sutht'" . B : William Burley, gent , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid GeorgeBurley, hisexecutors & assigns H(b) : From 5 May, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry[2]. J: [Postscripts as under entry [5]]

[Seized land. Rental]15

[13]farm . A Tenants. B : Robert Knight and Alice Knight, widow, who are indebted to the Queen in separate sums_of money by reason of their recusancy C : £6-13-4. D : Two-thirds of the lordship of Ludshott ; and of 3 messuages in Odeham [Odiham], with appurtenances E(a) : Thomas

Flemynge, esq , & others E(b) : 5 Oct., 33 Eliz. [1591]. E(d) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Southt' F : £13-6-8 from previous years G : £20

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £16-13-4 ofthe above rent from 27 March, 34 Eliz. [1592], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, because John Goodwyn answersfor an annualrent of£7-10s for these andotherpremises from thesaid27 March, 34 Eliz., andfrom this date isanswerable to the Queen by another commission; as is statedon the dorse of this present roll . 16 And they [tenants] owe £3-6-8 .

[Further postscripts as under entry [5]].

[Seized land. Rental]17

[14]farm. A

Tenants B : Thomas Stockwithe & Benjamin Stockwithe, recusants , who are indebted to the Queeninvarious sums of money, by reason of their recusancy. C : 16s 8d. D : Two-thirdsofcertain lands & pastures in Henton Dawbeny [Hinton Daubnay], called "Whethams" & "Cookes Crofte" and ofanother parcel of land, being a parcel of the manorof Frodington E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [13] F : £1-13-4 from previous years. G : £2-10s

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £2-1-8 of the above [rent] from 27 March, 34 Eliz., [1592], nor ought the saidrenttobe charged henceforth ,forthe reason statedimmediately above in the note under thefarm of the tenants of the lands & tenements of Robert & Alice Knight And they [tenants] owe 8s 4d

[Further postscripts as under entry [5]]

[Seized land. Rental]18

[15]farm . A Tenants B : John Goldsmith, gent. , recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of 100 marks, because he voluntarily heard Mass C : £26-13-4 . D : Two-thirds of various lands & tenements , with appurtenances , in Exton E(a) Thomas Flemynge, esq , & others E(b) : 3 Oct., 34 Eliz [1592] E(d) as entry [13] F : £26-13-4 from precedingyear. G : £53-6-8 J: [Postscripts as under entry[5]].

[Seized land. Rental]19

[16]farm . A Tenants B : Gilbert Ticheborne, gent , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of 100 marks, because he similarly heard Mass C : £6-13-4. D : Two-thirds of a third part ofa certain messuage, and ofvarious lands, tenements & hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Totford E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [15]. F : £6-13-4from precedingyear. G : £13-6-8. :

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[17]farm . A Barnard Wakefeild, one of the yeomen of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £29-13-4. D. 1 : Two-thirds of 3 closes of land in Hambledon, Hants. ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements , with appurtenances , in Hants., specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Southt'".20 B. 1 : Anthony Norton ofthe cityofWinchester , recusant D. 2 : Two-thirds of a third part of the farm or manor of Bossingdon[Bossington], withapps. , Hants ; together with other lands & tenementsin Bossingdonaforesaid, specified in the same roll 20 B.2 : MargeryWigmore, widow, recusant. D.3 Two-thirds of the manor of Rothercombe, Hants. , with apps B.3 Richard Brewninge, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Barnard Wakefeild, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 21 July, 33 Eliz [1591] H(c) H(d) : £18-1-1 (for Norton's lands) ; £8-5-6 (for Wigmore's lands) ; £3-6-8 (for Brewninge's lands) H(e). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Sutht'" 20 F: £74-3-4 from previous years. G : £103-16-8.

J: [Postscripts as under entry [5]].

[rotulet 18, dorse]

[Lease of seized land

Rental]21

[18]farm . A Charles Pagett, one of the yeomen ofthe chamber royal [lessee]22 C : £6-13-4 D : Two-thirds of a certain farm or messuage, with appurtenances, in Pittleworth, in the parish of Broughton , Hants.; also of 200 acres of land& of 60 acres of"coppices" , pertaining to the samefarmormessuage. B : Anthony Uvedall, lately of Hambledon, Hants , esq , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Charles Pagett, his executors & assigns. H(b) From 1 Dec., 35 Eliz [1592]. H(c). H(d): as C. H(e). H(k) as in entry [17].

[Lease of seized land

Rental]23

[19]farm. John Goyte, William Bake and John Thomas [lessees] C : £11-16-111 . D : Two-thirds of the manor of Hordell Bremor [Hordle Breamore], Hants , with appurtenances; and of the manor of Keyhaven, Hants.; also of the manor of Souham[Southam] aliasHamworthie [Hamworthy], Co.Dorset.

B : Henry Carye of Tadford, Hants , esq , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Goyte, William Bake & John Thomas, their executors & assigns H(b) : From 15 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d) : £12-16-11.24 H(e). H(k) : as in entry [17].

J: On 17 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £5-18-6 was paid from this farm into theTreasury. And on 11 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £5-18-6 was paid .... [etc. as above] And they [lessees] are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]25

[20]farm . A Charles Pagett, one of the yeomen ofthe chamber royal [lessee] C : £48-17-10, being part of [an original] rent of £65-16-61 & a half d. D : Two-thirds of the farm called "Heathehouse" , with appurtenances , lying & existing in Borryton [Buriton], near Petersfeild, Hants.; together with various lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under " Item Sutht"" B : Stephen Vachell, gent., recusant H(b) : From 30 May, 31 Eliz [1589] H(c) H(d) : £48-17-10. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry [17].

J: On the last day of April, 36 Eliz [1594], £9-3-3 waspaid from this farm into the Treasury And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £9-3-3 was paid . . . [etc. as above] And he [Pagett] ought not to be summoned for £30-11-4, by considerationofthe Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , Michaelmas term, 31 & 32 Eliz, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And he [Pagett] is quit

[Seized land. Rental]26

[21]farm. A Tenants B : Richard Warneford of the city of Winchester, gent. , recusant. C : £26-13-4 . D : Two-thirds of the farm of Newland, with appurtenances , in the parish of Southwick, Hants , ofthe yearly value of £40 E(b) : 20 May, 34 Eliz. [1592] E(a) : William Udevall & others E(d) : as in entry[13]. F : £40 from previous years. G : £66-13-4

J: The sheriffanswers belowfor £26-13-4 of this rent . 27 And they [tenants] owe £40.

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ....

[Arrearage of rent]

[22]A Tenants B : Henry Carye, esq , recusant D : Twothirds of the manor of Hordell Bremor, and of other lands in Hants , and Dorset. F : £5-18-6ofa certain rentof£11-16-11 viz. a part ofthe said rent, from 6 August, 33 Eliz. [1591] (on which day the same premises were taken and seized into the Queen'shands) until Michaelmas next following ; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " southt'" 28

J: For which the sheriffanswers below.27

[L.Margin][The sheriff] is charged , unless . . .

†[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[23]farm . A John Dunne [lessee] C : £9 D: The whole manor ofLudshott, withallitsrights, members& appurtenances in Hants , being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Alice Knighte, widow, recusant H(a) ; Aforesaid John Dunne, his executors & assigns H(b) : 24 Dec., 36 Eliz [1593]. H(c). H(d) as C. : H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz., under " Southt'" .

†[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[24]farm. A: John Goodwyn, gent [lessee ] C : £7-10s

D.1 Two-thirds of the lordship of Ludshott, Hants , with all appurtenances; and of 3 messuages in Odyham [Odiham], with apps, in Hants B.1. Robert Knyght of Abbotes Itchinge [Itchen Abbas], gent , and Alice Knyght of Itchinge Abbottes, Hants , widow, recusants . D.2: Two-thirds of certain lands, arable & pasture, in Henten Dawbenye [Hinton Daubnay], Hants , called "Whethams" & "Cokescrofte" , estimated to contain 30 acres of pasture land ; and of another parcel of land, with apps., being a parcel of the manor of Frodington, Hants , estimated to contain 30 acres of arable land ("terrae")

B.2 Thomas Stockwith, lately of Lymyngton, Hants , and Benjamin Stockwithe, lately ofSouthwarke, Co. Surrey, gents, recusants . E(b) : 5 Oct. , 33 Eliz [1591] E(a) : Thomas Fleminge & others. H(a) : Aforesaid John Goodwyn, his executors& assigns H(b) : From 27 March, 34 Eliz [1592]. H(c) H(d) £6. (for Ludshott) ; 13s. 4d. (for Odiham property) ; 10s 8d (forHinton property) ; 6s. (for Frodington property). H(e). H(k) : Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases , 34 Eliz., under " Southt'" . F : £11-5s . from precedingyear. G : £18-15s : J: [Postscripts as under entry[22]].

[Record ofannual finepaid]

[25] A George Cotton ofWarblington, Hants , esq C. D: £260.

H. G. E From25 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593], to 24 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. 13 [lunar] months K. P : On the last day of April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £120 was paid into the Treasury. And on 25 Nov., 37 Eliz [1594], £140 was paid into the Treasury. And he [Cotton] is quit

[Arrearage of rent]

[26] A Charles Pagett, one of the yeomen of the chamber royal [lessee] F : £48-17-10 for Sir Walter Sands, knt , sheriff of the year 33 Eliz, cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Item Sutht'" ; viz onefullyear'srent, endingatMichaelmas , 34 Eliz.; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Sutht'

D : Two-thirds of the farm, with appurtenances , called "Heathouse" ,in Borryton[Buriton] near Petersfeild, Hants , together with various other lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under Item Sutht'" . B : Stephen Vachell, gent., recusant .

J : On 28 April, 34 Eliz [1592], £9-3-3 was paid from this farm into theTreasury. And on 6 Nov. , 34 Eliz [1592], £9-3-3 was paid .... [etc. as above]. And he [Pagett] ought not to be

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) HANTS 41 summoned for £30-11-4 , by the consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., Michaelmas term, 31 & 32 Eliz., "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he [Pagett] is quit.

[Statement ofsheriff'sarrears]

[27] A The same sheriff, viz Richard Milles, esq.

B : [5]£12-8-10 (Warneford's tenants). [8] £16-4-6 (Pagett). [10] £7-11-2 (Pawlett's tenants) [12] £2-13-4, & 1 peppercorn (Burley). [13] £3-6-8 (Knight's tenants). [14] 8s. 4d (Stockwithe's tenants). [15] £53-6-8 (Goldsmith). [17]

£103-16-8 (Wakefeild). [21] £26-13-4 (Warneford's tenants) [22] £5-18-6 (Carye's tenants) [24] £18-15s (Goodwyn)

C : £251-3-0 & 1 peppercorn.

D : [22] On 29 April, 37 Eliz [1595], £5-18-6 was paid into theTreasury, in the name of Carye's tenants [15] Goldsmith'stenantsanswer for£53-6-8in thefollowing [Recusant] Roll, after their farm . 29

[24] On the last day of April, 36 Eliz [1594], 3s waspaid into the Treasury by Robert Wright, gent , in Goodwyn's name . And on the same date, 5s. 4d was paid [etc.] bythe same person, in Goodwyn's name And on 7 Nov., 36 Eliz , [1594] 8s.4d. was paid[etc.] by the same person, in Goodwyn'sname

E : And he [sheriff] owes £191-1-2 & 1 peppercorn . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under" Sutht”” .

[Enrolment ofestreated convictions for recusancy]30

[28] A Constance Knight, wife of Robert Knight, lately of Bramshott, Hants , gent B. D: £160. F: £120 G. H. J: for 6 months following 10 April, 37 Eliz [1595] L : £40

M : Monday, 23 Feb., 38 Eliz [1595/6] N: From date of convictionto 20 April, 38 Eliz [1596], i.e. 2 [lunar] months . O.

Joan Preignishe lately of Hurslye [Hursley], Hants. , widow

Katherine Harfle, lately of Weke [Weeke], Hants. , widow 31 •

Katherine Hall lately of Eston [Easton], Hants. , widow [ ] £160 forthe like [ ] ,, [ ]

Mary Cotton, wife of Richard Cotton , lately of Bedhampton, Hants , gent ( ) , "Christiana" Beare, latelyofSouthstonham [South Stoneham], Hants., widow . [ ] , وو و " وو ,, , " 33 33 " دو

Stephen Wattes, lately of Owre [Ower], Hants., "yoman" .

John Cowdrey of Wynslade [Winslade], Hants., "yoman" .

[ ] £160 for thelike.

GeorgeCooke, latelyofMilton "yoman" [ ]

Eleanor Abraham, alias Bradman, lately ofBramlye [Bramley], "spinster" [ ] Alice Milles, lately of Itchin Abbattes, G. ] ,

of Farley, Hants , J: For 12 months

[Itchen Abbas], Hants. , "spinster" . [ A : Ann Huntt, wife of Thomas Huntt "spinster" . B. D: £280 F: £240 following 22 Feb., 37 Eliz [1594/5] L, M, N, and O : As under Constance Knight, above

Simon Hunte , lately of the same place, "husbandman'

Elizabeth Hunte of the same place, "spinster" [ ] £280 forthelike. [ ] " " , " " [ ] "

Agnes Littlefeild, wife of Arthur Littlefeildofthe same, "spinster" . 3Text

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p. 273, 1. 26 seq. to " Regine huiusinSutht' ' *Text as op cit., p 274, 1. 6 seq to" sicut cont' ibid'" . as op. cit , p. 274 , 1. 19 seq. to " equales porc"" , (the passage "pred' manerium decimas" is here omitted in MS)

porc'" . Text as 5Blankspace Cf. "The Act 28 Eliz, cap. 6

10Cf . op cit , p 274, 1. 37 seq to " sicut cont' ibid'" left in MSfor name ofplace. entry [27], E. Text as op. cit., p 275, 1. 1 seq (with variant phrasings) to "equales porc " "Text as op cit , p. 275, 1. 21 seq (with variant phrasings) to " equales porc'" . op cit ., pp. 275-6 11Cf . op. cit., pp 276-7 . 12Text as op. cit., p 277, 1. 10 seq to " Regine ibid"" 13Text as op. cit ., p. 277, l. 19 seq. to " equales porc' ibid'" , (the passage "omniaet singula ... pertin' universis" is here replaced by"firmam pred"") 14Text as op cit. ,p. 277 , 1. 39 seq. (with variantphrasings )to"equales 15Text as op cit , p 280, 1. 1 seq to" capt' et seisit'" . 16Cf . entry [24], below. 17Text as op cit , p 280, 1. 13 seq. to sicut cont' ibid'" 18Text as op cit , p 281, 1. 11 seq to "capt'etseisit'" . 19Text as op cit , p 281 , 1. 21 seq to "capt' et seisit"" . 20Cf. op cit., pp 282-4. 21Text as op cit, p 284, 1. 44 seq (with variant phrasings) to "equales porc'" . The passage " in man' Regine . quarreriis premissorum" is here omitted in MS 22The original "particular" of this lease (P.R.O., E . 318, Box 40, No. 46) describes Pagett as "a yeomanof her Maty's Guard" 23Cf. op cit , pp 285-6 24Sic in MS, for £11-16-11 : cf. section C above 25Text as op cit. , p. 286, 1. 7 seq. to " pro temporeexisten'" 26Text as op cit, p 287, 1. 14 , seq. to " capt' et seisit " . The words"et nuper Simonis Broxton" are here omitted in MS 38Cf. op. cit., p 278, 1. 16 seq. 29Note in L. margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur"). The sheriff (Milles) was therefore discharged ofthis amount 30Allthe entries underthis heading 27Cf . entry [27] are bracketed , L., withthe note : Let a commission be issued("fi[at] Commissio") 31The bracketshere and in items belowindicate a space in MS , for the later insertion (when required) of the word "debet" (owes) Cf. Introd p xcix

[rotulet 7]

[Preamble]

HEREFORDSHIRE (" Hereff'")

[1] Roger Boddenham, esq., sheriff ofthis county from Michaelmas, 35Eliz., toMich., 36 Eliz , renders .... [etc. as Berkshire [1]]

[Seized land. Rental]

[2] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirdsofone capital messuage; of2 dovecots ; of 3 orchards ; and ofvarious meadow ,grazing & pasture lands, with appurtenances, in Bifford [Byford], Herefords .. C : £8-16-9 . B : John Gomond , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,480, by virtueof a certain Act2 of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under Hereff'" . "

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned forthis [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, for the reason referred to under the farm of the same tenants in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Hereff"" . Andthey[tenants] are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]³

[3] farm . A Thomas Braban [lessee]. C : 20 marks D: The lordship or manor of Kenchurche [Kentchurch], with all its rights, members& appurtenances , Co. Heref.: being a parcel ofthe lands and possessions of ... B : John Scuadamore , esq., recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £300. H(a) Aforesaid Thomas Braban & his assigns. H(b) : From Michaelmas, 30 Eliz. [1588]. H(c) : "for the satisfaction of the aforesaid debt" . H(d) : 20 marks H(e) H(f) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Hereff'" . F : £40 from previous years . G : £53-6-8.

J: On 18 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £6-13-4 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And he [Braban] ought not to be summoned for £20, viz the rent for this year andthe lastpartof the precedingyear, nor ought the said rent to be chargedafter 9 July, 35 Eliz [1593], (on which day the aforesaid John Scudamoredied), during the life-timeofa certain Margaret Scudamore , relict of the aforesaid John Scudamore, and of a certain Thomas Scudamore, son & heir ofthe saidJohnand Margaret, and ofthe legitimate male heirs of the same Thomas ; by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer], noted in the Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And he [Braban] owes £26-13-4. And he answers below.5

[Seized land. Rental] [4] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one messuage or tenement, called"le Oldefeild" , with apps., in Garwey [Garway] and St. Wenyardes [St. Weonards], co Heref C: £4-17-9 & two-thirds of d B : William Mynors ofGarwey, recusant, K

44 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) HEREFORD

who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by virtueof the aforesaid Act ? E(d) : as in entry [2] F : £9-15-6 & two-thirds of d. from previous years. G : £14-13-4. [Further arrears] £4-17-9 for William Rudhall, esq., sheriff of the year 33 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Hereff"" , being the rent from this farmfor the year 33 Eliz. ; as is contained in the same Great Roll, under " Hereff"" . [Total debt] £19-11-1 .

J: For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of this present rotulet.8

[L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ....

[Seized land. Rental]

[5] farm . A

Tenants. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Winferton [Winforton], with appurtenances in co. Heref. C : £22-4-5 & two-thirds of d. B : Michael Vaughan, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by virtue of the aforesaid Act.7 E(d) : as in entry [2]. F : £122-4-4 & one-third of d from previous years G : £144-8-10.

J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz, under " Hereff"" ,for thisrent andthearrears

[Seized land Rental]10

[6] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds ofone messuage and of certain lands & tenements, with appurtenances , in Stanford Episcopi [Stanford Bishop] and Bromeyard [Bromyard], co Heref. C: £1-2-02d B : Richard Abington, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by virtue of the saidAct. E(d) : as in entry [2] F: £1-2-0 from preceding year G : £2-4-1 .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[4]]

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]11

[7] farm . A: William Wellington [lessee] C : £16-13-4. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Allensmore, with appurtenances; and of certain lands & tenements in Peterchurche, co Heref B : John Seaborne , gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Wellington & his assigns H(b) : From Ladyday, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e).12 H(f) H(k) : as in entry[3].

J: On 18 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £8-6-8 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £8-6-8 was paid .... [etc. as above]. And he [Wellington] is quit

[Lease of seized land Rental]13

[8] farm . A Hugh Cuffe, gent. , [lessee ]. C : £6-13-4, the remainder of a rent of £16-13-4, being part of £75-13-10, viz the remainder [ofan originalrent] of £84-3-10 D: The farm

of Stretford, co. Heref , with appurtenances, being a parcel ofthe goods& chattels14 of ... B: Edmund Jones , recusant H(a) Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors& assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 27 Eliz [1585] H(c) H(d) : £6-13-4. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [3]. F : £36-13-4 from previous years. G : £43-6-8.

[Seized land. Rental]15

[9] farm . A

Tenants B : ThomasMorgan, latelyofArkeston, in the parish ofKingston [Kingstone], esq , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £680, by reason of his recusancy. C : £44-8-11 . D : Two-thirds of the manor¹6 of Arkeston , Kilpeck, Kevernoll [Kiverknoll], Hongerston [Hungerstone] and Mayfeild, with appurtenances of the said manor, of the clear yearly value (after [the cessation of] the term & lease of this property, made and granted to James Morgan, gent)17 of 100 marks E(a) : Richard Tompkins , esq., & others E(b) : 2 Oct., 33 Eliz [1591 ] E(d) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under " Hereff"" , and preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Hereff" . F: £88-17-10 from previousyears G: £133-6-9.

J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under"Hereff"" , for thisrent andthearrears.

[Seized land. Rental]18

[10]farm . A Tenants B : Thomas Preest, "yoman" , recusant.

C : 6d. & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of one acre of customary land in Oblington [Cublington ] in a field called "Woodwardes Feild" ; of the lands & tenementsofthe aforesaid Thomas Price [sic], who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £8, by reason of his recusancy E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[9]. F : 1s 0d & two-thirds of d.from previous years. G : 1s 7d. & two-thirds of d. J: [Postscripts as under entry[4]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]19

[11]farm . A: George Hochenson [lessee] C : £4-6-8 . D: Two-thirdsofthe manor ofWellington, co. Heref, withvarious lands, tenements, meadows, grazing lands, pastures, woods & hereditaments pertaining to the same manor in Wellington& Mardon, co. Heref., ofthe yearly value(apart from a moietyof one coppice called "Chaunte Wood" , a parcel of the said manor) of £6 ; and two-thirds of the reversion of a moiety or half-part of the said coppice or wood-land called "Chaunte Wood" , with the woods and stone-quarries existing therein (after the death of Elizabeth Clarke, widow20), of the yearly value of£10 . And two-thirdsofthe manor orcapital messuage ofClifford, co Heref , called "the Nethercourte" , with various lands & tenements in Clifford, Hardwick, Pidstowe and Hent-

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) HEREFORD

land, co. Heref., of the yearly value of £5 ; also two-thirds of a certain lease of the manor or capital messuage of Horton [? Houghton], co Heref. , with various arable lands, meadows, grazing lands & pasturespertaining to it, of the yearly value of £1-10s (with the exception of all such trees, woods, underwoods, mines & stone-quarries on the above properties as are wholly reserved to the Queen , her heirs & successors). B : Richard Clarke of Wellingtonaforesaid, gent , recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in various sums of money, by reason of his recusancy E(b) : 18 Sept. , 33 Eliz [1591 ] E(a) : John Breinton, esq. , & others H(a) : Aforesaid George Hochenson, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 15 Dec., 34Eliz [1591]. H(c) H(d) : £3-6-821(forCliffordproperty); £1 (for the Horton lease) ; £4 (for Wellington property, "when it shall have fallen [into the Queen's hands]") ; £6-13-4 (for Chaunte Woodreversion, "when it shall have fallen" etc). H(e). H(k)

Cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under " Hereff"" . J: On 22 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £2-3-4 was paid from this farm into theTreasury. And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £2-3-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Hochenson] is quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental] [12]farm. A Edward Redhead [ lessee ]. C : £7-1-1 & twothirdsof d. D: Two-thirds ofthe manor ofHouton[Howton] co. Heref., with appurtenances; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , co. Heref . , specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Hereff"" 22 B : Thomas Scudamore of Kenchurche [Kentchurch], co Heref. , gent. , recusant H(a) : Edward Redhead, his executors & assigns. H(b) : Fiom 29 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591 ]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry[11]. F : £ 14-2-2 & twothirds of d. from previous years G : £21-3-4.

J: On 18 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £3-10-7 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And he [Redhead] owes £17-12-9 . For which the sheriffanswers on the dorse of this rotulet. [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged unless ...

[Lease of seized land. Rental]23

D.2 : [13] farm . A Anthony Pembridge [lessee]. C : £10 D.1 : Two-thirds of a certain farm in Westhide, co Heref B.1 : Henry Rawley, lately of Westhide, co Heref , recusant

Two-thirds of the manor of Westhide, co Heref B.2 : Jane Baskervile of Westhide aforesaid, widow, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid AnthonyPembridge, his executors& assigns. H(b) : From 18 Dec., 34 Eliz., [1591]. H(c). H(d) : £3-6-8 (for Rawley's farm) : £6-13-4 (for Baskervile's manor) H(e) H(f) H(k) as in entry [11] F : £20 from previous years. G : £30

J: On 18 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £5 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 10 Nov., 35Eliz. [1593], £5 was paid.. [etc. as above]. And he [Pembridge] owes £20 For which the sheriffanswers on the dorse ofthis rotulet .

[L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless ...

*[Seized land. Rental]

[14]farm. A : Tenants B : Thomas Price, "yoman" , recusant C : 13s 4d. D : Two-thirds of a certain house & of certain customary lands, with appurtenances, being a parcel of the manor of Cublington, in the parish ofMadley. E(a) : Walter Vaughan, esq., & others E(b) : 7 April, 35 Eliz [1593]. E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F : 6s 8d from preceding year. G : £1 .

J: [Postscripts as under entry[4]].

[Lease of seized Inad Rental ]

[15]farm . A : William Hunnys, oneofthe gentlemenofthe chapel royal [lessee]. C : £8-17-9 & two-thirds of d., being the remainder [of an original rent] of £30-4-5 D : Two-thirdsof one capital messuage ; of2 dovecots ; of 3 orchards ; and of other lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Bifford [Byford], co. Heref. B : John Gomond, gent , recusant H(b) From 26 March, 3 [ ]24 Eliz H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). 25 H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under "Adhuc Item Ebor " [sic]. F : £22-4-51 & two-thirds of d. from previous years G : £31-2-3 .

J: But he [Hunnys] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be charged henceforth, by consideration ofthe Barons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And he [Hunnys] is quit.

[

Arrearage ofrent]

[16] A Thomas Braban [lessee]. F : £26-13-4, of a certain annual rent of 20 marks, viz the rent for the year 33 Eliz. [1591/2], and arrears. D : The lordship or manor of Kenchurch [Kentchurch], co Heref, with all its rights, members & appurtenances; being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : John Scudamore , esq., recusant.

J: But he [Braban] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], because answer has been made to the Queen for thesaid£26-13-4 by Charles Brudges and William Rudhall, esqs. , late successive sheriffs of Herefordshire of the years 33 & 34 Eliz. , 26 viz., £13-6-8 by each of them, from the issues of the same premises , taken & seized into the Queen's hands for his [Scudamore's] recusancy; as is stated more fully in the separate Foreign

Accountsofthe saidtwo sheriffs, preserved here in this Exchequer in the custody of the engrosser of the present roll.

[Seized land Rental] And he [Braban] is quit.

[17] farm. A : Tenants B : Thomas Palmer of Halton [Bucks], gent. , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £240, by reason of the aforesaid Act 27 C: £13-6-8 D :

Two-thirds of a certain annual rent of £20, issuing from the manor of Wiggenton, co. Heref. E(a) : John Crooke , Edward Bulstrode & Richard Tredway, esq E(b) : 8 April, 33 Eliz. [1591] E(d)

Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Item Buck " . "where the aforesaid rent is demanded under the names28 of[i.e. "from"] John Crooke and the aforesaid other commissioners" F : £33-6-8 from previous years G : £46-13-4

[rotulet 7, dorse]

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[18] A: The same sheriff, viz Roger Boddenham, esq.

B : [4] £19-11-1 (Mynors' tenants). [6] £2-4-1 (Abington's tenants). [10] 1s. 7d & two-thirds of d (Preest's tenants). [12]£17-12-9 (Redhead). [13] £20 (Pembridge). [14] £1 (Price's tenants).

C : £50-9-6129 & two-thirds of d. D : [4] Mynors' tenantsanswer for £9-15-6 of their debt of £19-11-1 in the following [Recusant] Roll under Hereff"" , after theirfarm . 30 6

[13] On4 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £5 of the debt of £20 was paid into the Treasuryfor Pembridge , under the name of the sheriffRoger Bodenham , esq.

E : And he [sheriff] owes £35-14s . 31 & two-thirds of d . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz , under " Hereff'" .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]

[19]32A Richard Abingdon of Bromyard, co. Heref esq B. D : £100 F : £80 G. H. J : For4 months following 1 April, 37 Eliz. [1595]. L : £20 M : Monday, 15 March, 38 Eliz

[1595/6]. N Fromday ofconviction until 12 Aprilfollowing i.e. 1 [lunar] month O.

John Seaborne of Sutton [St.] Michael, esq , owes £100 forthe like

[Postscript] But he [Seaborne ] ought not to be summoned for this [debt]for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under "Hereff"" , in the farm of William Wellington And he is quit.

Katherine Rooper of the same, wife of Christopher Rooper, esq

Thomas Fowlar ofLlanrothall, "yoman"

Edward Pryce of Pype [Pipe and Lyde], "yoman"

KatherinePrice,wife ofthe same Edward A: William Griffethes, 34 lately of Llanrothall, co. Heref . , gent. B. D : £40 F : £20 G. J : For 1 month following 10 Feb., 38 Eliz [1595/6]. L, M, N, and O : as under Richard Abingdonabove.

Ann Griffithes, lately of the same , wife of the aforesaid William

Thomas Fowlar, latelyofthesame ,gent .

Ann Price, lately of the parish of All Saints in the city of Hereford, "spinster"

Jane Malard, latelyof the same , wife of Robert Malard

Richard Powell , lately of Kylpeck [Kilpeck], gent

Margaret Powell, lately of the same , wife of the aforesaid Richard Thomas Kerriock, lately of the same , "yoman" .

Margaret Kerriok, lately of the same, wife ofthe aforesaid Thomas

Richard Baker, lately of Kenchurche

[Kentchurch], "smithe" ,

Lucy Griff, lately of All Saints in the county [sic] of Hereford, wife of Ambrose Griffeth

Francis Berrington, junior, lately of Yarkhill, gent

Elizabeth Russell, lately of Marden, wife of John Russell , gent.

Williamap Thomas , lately ofKinnersley, " husb''

WilliamHarper,latelyofMadley, gent ..

Nicholas Harper, latelyofthe same , gent.

John Harper, latelyofthe same, gent

EdwardPryce, lately ofPipe, " husb'

Katherine Pryce, lately of the same ,

wife ofthe aforesaid Edward

Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p 125, 1. 41 seq to "xxxiijeloin Hereff"" . 2The Act 28 Eliz. , cap 6

Text as op cit , p 126 , 1. 15 seq. to "sicut cont' ibid'" 'A Mark 13s 4d 5Cf . entry [16]

Text of the above postscript, from "and he [Braban]": "Et non deb' sum' de £xx qui sunt de eadem firma de hoc anno et ultima

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) HEREFORD-HUNTS

16One manoronly

parteanni preteriti Nec de eadem firma a nonodie Julii anno xxxyto quo die pred' Johannes Scudamore obiit duran' vita cuiusdam Margarete Scudamore relict' pred' Johannis Scudamore Et de vita cuiusdam Thome Scudamore fil' et hered' pred Johannis & Margarete et her' masculor' de corpore eiusdem Thome legitime procreat' de cetero onerari per cons' Baronu'" , etc. 6Text as op cit , p 126, 1. 31 , seq to" Act' pred' ibid . Cf. entry [2],B Cf. entry [18],D Text as op cit , p 126 , 1. 41 seq to "Act' 10Text as op. cit , p 127, 1. 6 seq 11Text 12The pred' ibid'" . as op. cit., p. 128, 1. 9 seq to "temporeexisten' ibid'" . words "ad Fest' sancti Michaelis Archangeli & Annunc' Beate Marie Virginis" are present in MS 13Cf . op cit , pp 128-9 , omitting the lands of Edward Clarke, recusant, and thus reducing Cuffe's rent by £10 (Cf. postscript: loc cit.) 14Stretford was therefore leasehold property ("chattels -real"). 15Text as op cit, p 129 , 1. 11 seq. to" capt' etseisit'" . here This is proved by the fact that £44-8-11two-thirds of 100 marks (see below in this entry) 17A tentative renderingof

19Text as 20It is clear

22Cf . op cit., thedifficultclause " postterminu' ... fact' et concess'" 18Text as op cit., p 129, 1. 26 seq to " capt' et seisit'" . op cit , p 130, 1. 30 seq to "equales porciones" from the facts given in H(d) (below in this entry) that this clause refersboth to ChaunteWood andtotheWellington property above . 21Sic in MS ; not 6s 8d , as in C.R.S., loc cit. p. 131-2 23Cf. op cit., p 132. 24Last figure of this date is illegible 25"To the Receipt of the Exchequer " etc. omitted in MS 26Text of the following passage : "videlicet per utrumque eor' xiij.1 vj.s. viij.d. de exit' eorundem premissor" in manus dicte domine Regine racione recusancie sue capt' et seisit' Sicut cont' in separalibus compotisforinc' dictor' nuper separaliu' vic' hic in hoc Sceccario in custod' ingrossator ' huius rotuli plenius liquet et apparet" . Clearly the insertion here of the word "cont[inetur]" is a clerical error 27Cf. entry [2],B

28"Item 29Sic , Buck' ubi firma predict' exigitur sub nominibus" in MS for £60-9-6

31Sic, for £45-15s (see note 29)

30Note in L. margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur"). The sheriff (Boddenham ) was therefore discharged of this debt 32The first six items, to Katherine Price, inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). 33The bracketshereand in items belowindicate a space left in MS, for the later insertion (when required) of the word "debet" (owes) Cf. Introd p xcix 34This and the remaining items, to Katherine Pryce, inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission beissued

[rotulet 2, dorse]

HUNTINGDONSHIRE(

" Hunt'")

[Record of annual fine paid]

A : Robert Aprice, esq. C : D : £260 H. E : From 23 Sept., 35 Eliz [1593] to 22 Sept., 36 Eliz.; i.e. 13 [lunar] months K. G.

P : On 10 May, 36Eliz [1594] £140 was paidinto theTreasury. And on 27 Nov., 37 Eliz [1594], £120 was paid into the Treasury. And he is quit.

[rotulet 8]

[Preamble]

KENT ("Kanc'")

[1] Michael Sandes, esq , sheriff of this county from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., to Mich , 36 Eliz , renders . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land.

Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Thomas Horseman, esq , a gentleman sewer2

[lessee]. C : £68-2-2 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of the manor and rectory of Leneham [Lenham], Kent, with appurtenances; together with various other messuages, lands & tenementsspecified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under Item Kanc " . Thomas Wilford, esq., recusant H(a):

Aforesaid Thomas Horseman, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 19 Dec., 33 Eliz [1590] H(c) : "by reason of the recusancyof the said Thomas Wilford" H(d) : £68-2-2 [sic] & two-thirds of d. H(e). H(f) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Kanc"" .

J: On 27 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £34-1-6 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £34-1-6 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Horseman] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]³ [3] farm. A Tenants : B : Ann Mayneye, lately of Highley Carr in the parish of Winwick, Lancs. widow , recusant C : £6-13-4 . D : Two-thirds of various lands, tenements , marsh-lands & other hereditaments, with appurtenances, in the parishes of Lamberherst, Brenchley, Snabe [Snave] & Ivychurche, Kent ; being the jointure ofthe saidAnn Mayney, whois indebted to the Queen in the sum of £280, by virtueofa certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Kanc'" .

J: On24 April, 36 Eliz. [1594] £3-6-8 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 25 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £3-6-8 was paid ... [etc.], under the names of thefarmers [i.e. tenants] of the premises. And they [tenants] are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]5

[4] farm . A John Iden [lessee]. C : £12-15-6 & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds of one capital messuage or farm called "Frognall"; and of another messuage called "SorapesHill" , in the parishes of Tonge, Tenham [Teynham] and Bapchild, Kent ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under "Item Kanc'" . B : Norton Greene, gent , recusant. H(b) : From 8 May, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Item Kanc'" .

J: On 23 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £6-7-10 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. And on 22 Oct., 36Eliz [1594], £6-7-10 waspaid ...[etc. as above]. Andhe [Iden] is quit.

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[5] farm . Richard Lockesmythe, gent , [lessee] C : £44-8-11.

D : Two-thirds of the manor or farm called "Esthall" , with appurtenances, in the parish of Marston [Merston] & Tonge [Thong], Kent B : Thomas Hartfurthe, gent , recusant H(b) From 21 Dec., 33 Eliz. [1590]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k): as in entry[4]. F: £133-6-9. G: £157-15-67

J: But he [Lockesmythe] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth , by considerationof theBarons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz. , Hilary term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And he [Lockesmythe] is quit.

[Arrearage ofrent]

[6] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one capital messuage or farm called "Frognall" , in the parishes of Tenham [Teynham] & Tonge, and elsewhere in Kent B : Norton Grene , gent , recusant F : £6-7-9 & half d., being part of a certain annual rentof£12-15-6 , viz., the rent for the half-year ending at Ladyday, 33 Eliz, [1591] ; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Kanc'".8

J: [L.Margin] Nottobe written again, bywarrant oftheChancellor [ofthe Exchequer], until, etc.⁹

'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 139, 1. 5 seq to " xxxiijeloin Kanc'" 21.e. , an attendant at the royal table 3Text as op cit , p 139 , 1. 26 seq to " sicut cont' ibid'" . "The Act 28 Eliz , cap.6

5Text as op .cit, p 140, 1. 18 seq to" in Item Kanc'" op cit., p 140, 1. 40 seq to " sicut cont' ibid'" £177-15-8.

Text as "Sic , for 8Cf . op. cit , p 140, 1. 37 (where £6-7-1 & twothirds of td is given as the debt) per warran' cancellar ' quamdiuetc." "Text " Nonscri ulterius

[rotulet 11]

LANCASHIRE

(" Lanc'")

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹ [1] farm. A Edward Bradshawe, gent , [lessee] C : £9-15-6 & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds oflands & tenementsin the parish of Kirkeham, together with various other lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Lanc'" . B: Alice Clifton of Westby, widow, recusant. H(a) Aforesaid Edward Bradshawe H(b) : From 25 June ,

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Lanc"" . F : 8d & two-thirds of 1d from preceding year G : £9-16-3 & twothirdsof d.

J : On 8 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £4-17-10 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. And on 30 Oct., 36Eliz [1594],£4-17-10 waspaid ...[etc. as above] Andhe [Bradshawe] owes7 d.

[Lease of seized land Rental]³ [2] farm . A Richard Mollineux, esq , [lessee]. C: £77-16-2 .

D : Two-thirds ofthe demesne lands ofMowbreck[Mowbrick] & Burne, together with various other lands, tenements & hereditaments specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under" Lanc'" . B : John Westbye, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Mollyneux& his assigns H(b) : From 1 May, 30 Eliz [1588]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(g) H(k) : as in entry [1]. F : £38-18s from the last part ofthepreceding year G : £116-14-2 .

J: On 6 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £38-18-1 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 24 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £38-18-1 was paid [etc. as above]. And on 5 Nov. , 36Eliz [1594], £38-18-1 was paid ... [etc. as above].

And he [Mollineux] is quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]4

[3] farm. A John Chapman, gent. , [lessee ]. C : £23-8-6 . D : Two-thirds of the demesne lands of Cottam, Lancs , with appurtenances . B : William Haddock, gent., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Chapman & his assigns H(b) : From 1 Aug., 31 Eliz [1589] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry[1].

J: On 24 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £11-14-4 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. Andon 16 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £11-14-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]

And he [Chapman] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]5

[4] farm . A Tenants. D : Two-thirds of 100 acres of land commonly called "the demeans of Cottam" ; and of the rents of other tenants, at-will, for life, & for years, in Lancs. C : £46-9-10 B : William Haydock, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1580, by virtueofan Act ofthe Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) as in entry [1], H(k) F : £278-19s from previous years. G £325-8-9.9

[Seized land. Rental]10

[5] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manor of Molbrick [Mowbrick] & Borne, and elsewhere, with appurtenances,

in Lancs. and Yorks. C : £139-11-10% B : John Westby, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1580 , by virtue ofthe aforesaid Act. " E(d) as in entry [1], H(k) F : £873-11-4 from previous years G : £977-3-31.9

[Seized land. Rental]12

[6] farm . A Tenants. D : Two-thirds of 60 acres of land in Barton, Lancs C : 20 marks B : Ann Barton, recusant, whois indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1580, by virtue of the aforesaid Act . 11 E(d): as in entry [1], H(k). F: £80 from previous years G : £93-6-8.9

[Seized land. Rental]13

[7] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of 100 acres of land, called "the demeanes of Printon [Prenton]" , Cheshire . C: £26-13-4 B : John Hocknell, esq , recusant, whois indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1060, by virtue of the aforesaid Act. E(d) as in entry[1], H(k) F : £160 from previous years. G : £186-13-4.91

[Lease of seized land. Rental]14

[8] farm. A Richard Urmeston, gent [lessee] C : £ 14-13-4. D.1 Two-thirds of a capital messuage called "le Crosby Hall" , together with various other lands, tenements, meadows & pastures in Lancs., specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Lanc'" B.1 Richard Blundell, recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of a messuage called "Ballam" , with various lands & pastures specified in the said Great [Pipe] Roll of 33 Eliz. B.2 : William Clifton, gent. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Urmeston, gent H(b) : From 12 Nov., 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) : £13-6-8 (for Blundell's property) ; £1-6-8 (for Clifton's property). H(e). H(k) as in entry [1] F : £14-13-4 from preceding year G : £29-6-8.9

[Seized land. Rental]15

[9] farm . A Richard Bolton, gent. , [lessee]. C : £1-6-10 & two-thirdsof d D: The whole ofthe close& parcel of land , containing 5 acres, called & knownby the name of"le Stoney Pighell" ; and one other close & parcel of land, containing 3 acres, called "Roughfeilde" , within ("infra") the villages of Salebery[Salesbury] & Whilpshire [Wilpshire], Lancs.; being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : Nicholas Bolton , lately of Salebery, in the parish of Blackborne [Blackburn], Lancs., gent., recusant. H(a) Aforesaid Richard Bolton. H(b) From 19 Nov., 33 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) as in entry [1] F: £2-13-8 & two-thirds of d. from previous years G : £4-0-7 . J: On 28 March, 35 Eliz. [1593], 13-5d. was paidfrom this

farm into theTreasury. And on 8 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], 13s . 5d. was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 27 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], 13s. 4d. waspaid . .. [etc.]. And on ult Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], 13s 5d. was paid ... [etc.]. And he [R. Bolton] owes £1-6-11.16

[Lease of seized land. Rental]17 [10] 6farm. A John Parker, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £24-1-8. D.1

Two-thirds of the manor of Lighshawe [Lightshaw], together with various other lands , tenements & hereditaments in Lancs , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Lanc'" . B.1.: Elizabeth Kighley, lately of Lighshay, Lancs , recusant. D.2 : Twothirds of the capital messuage of Mosborough [Mossborough], called "Mosborough Hall" , together with various other tenementsand burgages in Lancs , specified in thesame Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Lanc'" B.2 : HenryLathome , recusant. D.3 : Two-thirds of a certain lease or rent for the term of one year, together with various other messuages, mills, lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, under " Lanc'" . B.3 : Ann Sonkey, lately ofSonkey[Great Sankey], in the parish of Warrington, widow, recusant D.4 : Twothirdsofathird part ofthe manor ofRixton, withappurtenances in the aforesaid parish, Lancs B.4 : Ann Massey, lately of Rixton, in the aforesaid parish, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Parker. H(b) : From 1 July, 33 Eliz [1591 ] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry [1] F : £60-4-2 from previous years G : £84-5-10.18

[Seized land Rental]19

[11] 6farm . A: Tenants. C: £5 D : One messuage, with appurtenances, in Litle Pulton [Little Poulton] ; 2messuagesin Kirkeham [Kirkham]; and various lands & tenements, with apps , in Croston, Lancaster, Warton, Lyverpoole [Liverpool] & Mawdesley of the lands and tenements of William Hesketh, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by reason of his recusancy. E(a) : Ranulf Hurlston, esq., & others E(b) : 9 Aug., 27 Eliz [1585] E(d) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Lanc"" . F: £42-10s. G : £47-10s . 18

[Seized land Rental]20

B:

[12] farm. A : Tenants C : 13s 4d D : One messuage, with appurtenances, in Windle, Lancs.; of the lands& tenementsof B : Matthew Traves, recusant, who is indebtedto the Queen in the sum of £240, by reason of his recusancy E(a), (b), and (d) as in entry [11 ]. F : £5-13-4 from previous years. G : £6-6-8.18

[Seized land Rental]21

[13] farm . A : Tenants C : 15s 2d D : 3 acres ofland, and other lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Preston ; of the lands & tenements of . . B : William Garstange of PrestonAmondernes, inthe CountyPalatineDuchyofLancaster, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80 , by reason of his recusancy. E(a) : William Farrington , esq., & others. E(b) : 12 Oct., 33 Eliz [1591]. E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Lanc"" . F : £2-5-6 from previous years G: £3-0-8.18

[Seized land Rental]22

[14] farm . A Tenants. B : Margaret Holden, widow , recusant C : £5-18-10& two-thirdsof 1d. D : Two-thirds of 20 acres of land in Pleasington ; of 30 acres of land in Shirrockhey [Shorrock Hey] ; and of a certain annual rent or annuity of £6-13-4 (granted to her by her late husband, John Houlden, and byher son, Richard) issuingfrom all her lands & tenements in Cheigley [Chaigley], Lancs E(a) : Thomas Hesketh, esq., & others. E(b) : 29 May, 33 Eliz [1591]. E(d) : as in entry [13]. F £14-17-2 & two-thirds of 1d. from previous years G : £20-16-1d.

J But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £3 ofthe aforesaid rent of £5-18-10 & two-thirds of 1d., for the said two-thirds of 20 acres of land in Pleasington and 30 acres of land in Shirrockhey, viz for the 2 years ending this Michaelmas , 36 Eliz. [1594], nor be charged henceforth for £1-10s. (being part of the said annual rent of £5-18-10 & two-thirds of 1d .,), because Thomas Bradshawe answers for the said £1-10s.perann. of the said rentfrom 28 Feb., 35 Eliz. [1592/3], and thereafterhe [Bradshawe] is answerable to the Queen by anothercommission ; asis containedin thepreceding[Recusant] Roll, under"Lanc'".23 And they [tenants] owe £17-16-1.18

[Seized land. Rental]24

[15] farm . A: Tenants. D: Two-thirdsofthe capital messuages called "Woodend and Newhall" , with appurtenances, in Eccles & Kilshett, and elsewhere in the said county C : £20-13-4. B : Hamlet ("Hamlettus") Holcrofte , gent , recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £280, by reason of his recusancy. E(b) : 26 March, 33 Eliz. [1591]. E(a) : John Writtington, 25 esq , & others. E(d) as in entry [13] F : £51-13-4from previous years G : £72-6-8 . J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £68-12-8 due from the saidfarm for the period 30 May, 33 Eliz [1591], to this Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594] ; nor ought this rent to be charged after the said 30 May, 33 Eliz., by considerationofthe Barons [of the Exchequer] : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R.,

33Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they [tenants] owe £3-14s. And they answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under" Item Lancastr'

[Lease of seized land. Rental] [16] 6farm. A John Parker, a yeoman of the chamber royal[lessee ]. C : £1-12-5 D.1 : Two-thirdsofa messuage of the Earl ofDerby, with an adjacent water-mill, & appurtenances, [?leased] for a certain time as yet unexpired. B.1 : Robert Adamson of Broughton, Lancs. , "yoman" , recusant. D.2 Two-thirds of lands in Woodplumpton & Catterall, Lancs., with apps B.2 : Anthony Pickeringe of Clatherhall [?Catterall], Lancs , "yoman" , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Parker & his assigns H(b) : From 7 July, 34 Eliz [1592]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Lanc 26 F : £2-8-7 from previous years. G : £4-1-0 .

[rotulet 11 , dorse] :

[Lease of seized land Rental] [17]27farm . A: Thomas Bradshawe, esq , sergeant-at-arms [lessee]. C : £1-10s D : Two-thirds of 20 acres of land in Plesington [Pleasington], Lancs , called "Sharrockhey" [Shorrock Hey] ; and of 30 acres of land in Sharrockhey aforesaid. B : Margaret Houlden of Plesington, in the parish of Blackborne [Blackburn], widow,recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Bradshawe, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 28 Feb. , 35 Eliz [1592/3] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) : Cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under" Lanc'".28 F: £1-10s.from precedingyear. G: £3

J: But he [Bradshawe] ought not to be summoned for £1-10s , being the rent for this year, nor ought the said rent to be charged after Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593], because Robert Singleton answers for £1-13-4 per ann . from this farm from the said Michaelmas, 35Eliz., andthereafter he [Singleton] is answerable to the Queen by anothercommission; as is shown [in the present roll] under "Item Adhuc Item Res' Lanc'"29. And he [Bradshawe] owes £1-10s. And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under" Item Lancastr' " 39 [L. Margin] [?] By division, 30s by each farmer [i.e. Bradshawe & Singleton].30

[Lease of seized land Rental]31 [18] farm. A : Nicholas Okeham [lessee] C : £2-13-4 D : Two-thirds ofa third part ofall& eachofthemanors,messuages, lands & tenements in Kirkeland [Kirkland], which lately belongedto John Butler, esq., of Kirkeland, Lancs , during his

lifetime. B : Jane Butler of Kirkeland aforesaid, recusant, wife ofthe said John Butler, esq H(a) : Aforesaid Nicholas Okeham, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 18 Dec., 34 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry [17]. F : £5-6-8 from previous years. G : £8.

J: On 6 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], he [Okeham] delivered("liberavit") this sum in theTreasury. And he isquit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]32

[19] 27farm. A: John Parker, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £1-6-8, being part [of an original rent] of £25-8-4. D : Two-thirds of one messuage, and of certain lands, with appurtenances, in Pemberton, Lancs. B : Henry Laythwaite, for a long time33 of Wigan, Lancs., "yoman" , recusant. H(b) : From 1 July, 33 Eliz. [1591 ]. H(c). H(d) :

£1-6-8. H(e). H(k) : as in entry [17] F : £1-6-8 from precedingyear. G : £2-13-4 .

J: On 23 May, 35 Eliz [1593] 13s 4d. was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on 24 Jan. , 36 Eliz. [1593/4], 13s 4d. was paid . . . [etc. as above]. And on 6 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], 13s 4d was paid ... [etc.]. And on 9 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594] 13s. 4d. was paid . . . [etc.]. And he [Parker] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[20]27farm . A : WilliamDavenporte, gent [lessee] C : £13-6-8 .

D : Two-thirds of one messuage in Pulton [Poulton], Lancs, together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Lancs , Westmoreland & Cheshire, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Item Lanc'"34 B : Margaret Davenporte, widow, recusant H(a): Aforesaid William Davenporte, hisexecutors& assigns. H(b): From 8 March, 35 Eliz [1592/3] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Item Lanc'".34 F : £13-6-8 from preceding year. G : £26-13-4. J: On 4 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £6-13-4 was paid from this farm into the Treasury. Andon8 Nov., 35 Eliz. [1593], £6-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 26 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £6-13-4 was paid . . . [etc.]. And on 6 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £6-13-4 was paid ... [etc.]. And he [Davenporte] is quit.

[Seized goods & chattels]35 [21] 27Ranulph Hurleston, esq., and Hugh Cuffe, gent , owe £10 , which they have taken ("quas [libras] ceperunt") ofthe goods & chattels of Thomas Hutton, clerk, recusant, viz. for the interest, title & estate of the said Thomas of and in 3 acres of land with appurtenances, in [ ]36 Lancs.; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Lanc'" 37

[Seized goods & chattels]38

[22] 27Jane Butler owes £ 10, charged upon herself, for the price or value of her goods & chattels, seized into the Queen'shandsby Richard Holland, esq , & other commissioners ; cf. . . [ref as in entry [21]]. 37

[Seized goods & chattels]39

[23] 27Roger Wright, John Wright & Cicely Wright owe £21-14-8 , charged upon themselves , for the price or value ofthe goods& chattels of John Wright, lately of Charnock Richard, Lancs., "husbandman" , recusant, seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners[i.e. Holland etc.] ; cf. . . [ref. as in entry [21]] 37

[Seized goods& chattels]40

[24] 27Margaret Houlden, widow, recusant, owes £11 to the Queen for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Margaret, taken & seized into the Queen's hands by Thomas Hesketh, esq., & other commissioners ; cf. .. [ref as inentry [21]]. 37

[Arrearage ofrent]41

[25] 27A Tenants B : Richard Blundell, gent , recusant. F : £6-13-4 . [being part] of a certain annual rent of £13-6-8 ; viz. rent due from 1 Sept., 33 Eliz [1591] (on which day the property was seized) to Michaelmas next following.42 D : Two-thirds of the capital messuage called "Crosbye Hall"; and of other messuages, cottages , lands & tenements, with appurtenances, & of one wind-mill, in Parva & Magna Crosby [Little Crosby & Great Crosby], Thorneton , Innce [Ince] Blundell, Orrell, Leverpoole [Liverpool], Dytton [Ditton], Warington [Warrington], Boulde and Hindley, Lancs E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Lanc'" 37

[Arrearage ofrent]43

[26] 27A Tenants B : William Clifton, gent , recusant F : 13s 4d , [being part] of a certain annual rent of £1-6-8 ; viz rent duefrom 1 Sept., 33 Eliz [1591] (on whichdaytheproperty was seized) to Michaelmas next following.42 D : Two-thirds ofa messuage called "Ballam" , with appurtenances , inWestbye [Westby with Plumpton ] ; and of certain tithes of grain & cornblade ("granor' et blador'") in the lands or fields of the hamlet ofTreyles [Treales ]. E(d) : as in entry[25].37

[Seized goods & chattels]44

[27]27Edward Rigbye, Thomas Tildesley, esqs., and John Lever , gent , owe £4-10s. , charged upon themselves , which they have taken ("quos [solidos] ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of Richard Blundell, gent , recusant ; cf ... [ref as in entry [21]] 37

[Seized goods & chattels]45

[28] 27William Farington & John Bradshawe, esqs , owe £13-6-8 , which ("quos" [denarios]) they have taken of the goods & chattels of Alice Clifton, widow, recusant ; cf. . . [ref. as in entry[21]]. 37

[29]

[Seized goods & chattels]46

27John Writtington, Edward Rigbye & Thomas Heskethe , esqs., owe £13-6-8, which("quos" [denarios]) they havetaken ofthe goods & chattels of Ann Sonkey, widow, recusant ; cf. [ref as in entry[21]]. 37

[30]

[Seized goods & chattels]47

27The same John, Edward & Thomas owe £20, which("quas" [libras]) they have taken of the goods & chattels of Henry Lathwayte, recusant ; cf .. [ref as in entry [21]] 37

[31]

[Seized goods & chattels]48

27The same John, Edward & Thomas owe £4-6-8, which ("quos"[denarios]) they have taken ofthe goods & chattels of Haml[et] Holcrofte , recusant ; cf.. [ref. as in entry [21]]. 37

[Seized goods & chattels]49

[32] 27Robert Adamson of Broughton, "yoman" , recusant , owes £5-0-8, due to the Queen , and charged upon himself , for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Robert, taken & seized into the Queen's hands by Thomas Holcrofte , esq., & other commissioners; cf .. [ref. as in entry[21]]. 37

[Seized goods& chattels]50

[33] 27Anthony Pickeringe, lately of Catherall [Catterall], "yoman" , recusant, owes £1-6-8, due to the Queen, and charged upon himself , for the price or value of the goods & chattels ofthe same Anthony, taken & seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners [cf. entry [32]] : cf. . [ref. as in entry[21]] 37

[Seized goods & chattels]51

[34]27John Blackburne, lately of Sandholme Milne, in Barnaker [Barnacre], "yoman" , owes 3s 4d , due to the Queen, and charged upon himself , for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners [cf. entry [32]]; cf. . . [ref. as in entry [21]]. 37

[Arrearage ofrent]52

[35] 27A Tenants B : Margaret Davenport, widow , recusant. F : 15s 2d. & one third of d., [being part] of an annual

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

rent of £1-10-5 & two-thirds of d.; viz rent due from 27 Sept. , 34 Eliz. [1592] (on whichday the propertywasseized) to Michaelmas next following 42 D : Two-thirds of various messuages, cottages & tenements, with appurtenances, in Pulton [Poulton], Fluckborowe [Flookburgh] and Lyndall [Lindale], Lancs E(d) as in entry [25].37

*[Seized land. Rental]

[36] 27farm. A: Tenants B : Robert Williamson of Hyton [Huyton], "husbandman" , recusant C : £2-13-4 D : Twothirds of one tenement, with appurtenances, in Torbocke [Tarbock], containing 20 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, in Lancs. E(a) Thomas Hesketh, esq , & others E(b) 13 April, 35 Eliz [1593] E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet ( ). F : £1-6-8from precedingyear. G : £4.53

*[Seized land Rental]

[37]27farm. A : Tenants B : Edward Haywarde, sen. , lately of Tarboote [Tarbock], recusant C : £1-6-8 D: Two-thirds of one tenement, with appurtenances, in Torbocke, containing 10 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land. E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36] F : 13s 4d from preceding year. G: £2.53

*[Seized land. Rental]

[38] 27farm . A: Tenants B : Edward Haywarde, jun., lately of the same [i.e. Tarbock], "husb'" , recusant C : £1-13-4. D : Two-thirds of one tenement, with appurtenances, in Tarbock, containing 12 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : 16s. 8d. from precedingyear G : £2-10s.53

*[Seized land Rental]

[39]27farm . A: Tenants B : Robert Ball, lately of Windle, "husbandman" , recusant. C : £2-13-4. D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, with appurtenances, in Windle aforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G : £4.53

*[Seized land Rental]

[40] 27farm . A: Tenants B : John Mosse, lately of Parr, "carpenter" , recusant C : 13s 4d D : Two-thirds of one messuage or tenement, with appurtenances, in Parr aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36] F : 6s 8d from preceding year G : £1.53

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) LANCS

*[Seized land Rental]

[41] 27farm . A: Tenants B : William Traves, lately of Harshaghe [Hardshaw], gent., recusant. C : £6-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of 2 messuages & tenements , with apps , in Harshaghe& Windle& Whiston, Lancs , containing 58 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : £3-4-5 & one third of 1d. G : £9-13-4.53

*[Seized land . Rental]

[42]27farm . A: Tenants. B : Peter Wetherby, lately ofWiston [Whiston], gent , recusant C : £2 D : Two-thirds of one messuage & 30 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land in Whistonaforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36]. F : £1 from precedingyear G : £3.53

*[Seized land. Rental]

[43] 27farm . A: Tenants B : John Haughton, lately of Lawton [? Lowton], " husb'" ,recusant. C : £1-2-2& two-thirds of1d. D: Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, and of 10 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with appurtenances, in Lawton aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : 11s. 1d .& one-thirdof 1d.fromprecedingyear. G : £1-13-4.53

[Seized goods & chattels]

[44]27John Haughton, lately of Lawton [? Lowton] aforesaid, "husbandman" , recusant, owes £6-13-4 for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners: [ref. to entry [36], E(a), (b) and (d)]

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under " Item Lancastr'"

*[Seized land . Rental]

[45]27farm . A : Tenants " B : Richard Aspinall, latelyofBickerstaff, " husb'" , recusant C : £1-3-6 & two-thirds of 1d. D : Two-thirds of a moiety of one messuage & tenement in Bickerstaff aforesaid, containing 20 acres ; and of one cottage & a moietyof one acre of land in Lathome [Lathom], Lancs. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : 11s 9d. & one-third of 1d G : £1-15-4

J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under" Lanc'" , for this rent & the arrears.

[rotulet 3a, dorse] (" Res' Lancastr'")

*[Seized land. Rental]

[46] 54farm . A : Tenants B : Hugh Shepley , lately ofCrompton, "yoman" , recusant. C : £3-4-5 & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, and of 20 acres of

arable, meadow & pastureland, with appurtenances, in Crompton aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : £1-2-2 & one-third of d from preceding year. G : £3-6-8

J: [Postscript as under entry[45]]

[Seized goods& chattels]

[47] 54Hugh Shepley, latelyof Crompton , "yoman" , recusant , owes £20 for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Hugh, seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid commissioners .. [ref to entry [36], E(a), (b), (d)]. [Postscript] Rendering to the Queen £3-6-8 of this debtinevery Trinity term after 11 Feb., 37 Eliz [1594/5], until the said debt of £20 shall have been fully satisfied & paid, without further delay ; for which payment James Pemberton of Halsnade [Halsnead] in theparish of Prestcott [Prescot], Lancs., gent., gives security ("per manuc[aptionem] Jacobi Pemberton . ”) : cf.Memoranda Roll, Q.R., 37 Eliz., Hilaryterm,"Recogniciones" section, rotulet [ ]. And he [Shepley] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under "AdhucItem Lanc'"

*[Seized land Rental]

[48] 54farm . A: Tenants B : John Windle, lately of the same [i.e. Crompton], "yoman" , recusant C : £2-4-5 & two-thirds ofd. D : Two-thirdsofone messuage & tenementinCrompton aforesaid, containing 20 acres of arable, meadow& pasture land, with apps E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : £1-2-2 & one-third of d from precedingyear. G : £3-6-8.

J : [Postscript as under entry[45]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[49] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Humphrey Winstanley, lately of Markeland Mylne, gent , recusant C : £1-6-8 D : Twothirds of one messuage & tenement, with appurtenances, in Pemberton, in the parish of Wigan, containing 20 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 13s 4d from precedingyear G : £2

J: [Postscript as under entry [45]].

*[Seized land Rental]

[50]54farm . A : Tenants B : Thomas Southworth ofMiddleton , in the parish of Wynockes [Winwick], gent , recusant. C : £3-15-6& two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of one messuage, onegardenand 16 acres ofarable, meadow& pastureland,with apps., in Middleton ; and of 20 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps. , in Crofte E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F £1-17-9 & one-third of 1d. from preceding year G : £5-13-4 .

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be charged henceforth, by consideration ofthe Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they are quit.

*[Seized land Rental]

[51] farm . A: Tenants. B : Richard Hyton, lately of the parish ofWigan, gent, recusant C : 6s 8d D: Two-thirds of the reversion of one messuage & tenement in Abraham [Abram], containing 6 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land.

E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36]. F 3s. 4d. from preceding year G: 10s .

J: [Postscript as under entry[45]].

[52]

[53]

[Seized goods & chattels]

54Richard Hyton, lately of the parish of Wigan, gent., owes £3-6s. for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Richard, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref. to entry [36], E(a), (b), (d)].

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under Adhuc Item Lanc'" .

*[Seized land. Rental]

54farm . A: Tenants B : John Thissleton, lately of the parish of Kirkeham, "yoman" , recusant C : £2-13-4 . D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, with apps. , in Weeton, containing 16 acres of arable, meadow & pastureland. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36] F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G : £4.

J: [Postscript as under entry [50]]. And they[tenants]arequit.

[Seized goods & chattels]

[54] 54John Thissleton, lately of Kirkeham aforesaid, "yoman" , owes £6-13-4for the price or value of the goods& chattels of the same John, taken & seized . . .[ref. to entry [36], E(a), (b), (d)]

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], byconsiderationoftheBarons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ] And heis quit

*[Seized land Rental]

[55]54farm . A: Tenants. B : Ann Stanley, lately of the parish of Leygh [Leigh], widow, recusant. C : £3-6-8 D: [Twothirdsof55a certain annuityor annual rent of £5, issuing from the lands & tenements of Robert Charnock, esq , in Luestley

[Luzley], Lancs E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F : £1-13-4 from precedingyear. G : £5.

J : [Postscript as under entry[45]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[56] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Richard Assheton , lately of the parish of Wigan, gent , recusant C : 13s 4d. D : Twothirdsof one messuage & 10 acres of arable, meadow& pasture land, with apps , in Abraham[Abram], Lancs E(a), (b) and (d) as inentry[36]. F: 6s 8d. from precedingyear. G : £1 .

J : [Postscript as under entry[45]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[57] 54farm . A : Tenants B : John Assheton , jun. , lately of the same [i.e. Wigan] C : £1-6-9 D : Two-thirds of 10 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with appurtenances , in Assheton [Ashton] E(a), (b) and (d): as in entry [36] F : 13s . 4d from precedingyear. G: £2.56

*[Seized land Rental]

[58]54farm . A: Tenants. B : William Aston, lately of the parish of Warrington, gent, recusant C : £2-13-4. D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, with apps. , in Orford, containing 10 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36]. F : £1-6-8 from preceding year. G: £4.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[59] 54farm . A : Tenants B : MargeryBlundell, latelyofCrosby, widow, recusant C : £2-10s. D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, and 15 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps., [held]for the term of her life. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36] F: £1-5s. from precedingyear. G : £3-15s . 56

*[Seized land Rental]

[60] 54farm . A : Tenants. B : Robert Dorwyn, lately of the parish of Seston [Sefton], " husb'" , recusant C : 13s 4d D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, with apps., containing 8 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land in Ince , Lancs. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 6s. 8d. from precedingyear. G : £1.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[61] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Richard Bolton, of the parishof Seston [Sefton], recusant C : £1-2-2 & two-thirds of 1d . D : Two-thirds of one messuage & 5 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land in Lytherland [Litherland] E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36] F: 11s 1d & one-third of 1d. from precedingyear. G: £1-13-4.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[62] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Thomas Marrall of Seston [Sefton], "husband"" , recusant C : £1-2-2 & two-thirds of ld D Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement in Seston, containing 10 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 11s. 1d & one-third of 1d. from precedingyear. G : £1-13-4.56

*[Seized land Rental]

[63] 54farm . A: Tenants B : James Dalton of the parish of Seston[Sefton], "yoman" , recusant C : 6s 8d D : Twothirdsof one messuage & tenement, with apps , in the parishof Seston aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 3s.4d. from precedingyear. G: 10s . 56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[64] 54farm . A : Tenants B : John Gregson ofWhalley, "lynnen webster" , recusant. C : 6s. 8d. D: Two-thirds of one messuage & 4 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land , with apps., in Whalley aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36]. F : 3s 4d from precedingyear G : 10s.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[65] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Thomas Johnson of Seston [Sefton], " husb'" , recusant C : £1-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one messuage ; of an ox-gang of arable land, and of a moiety of another ox-gang of meadow & pasture land, with apps., in Crosby E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F: 13s 4d from precedingyear G : £2.56

[Seized goods & chattels]

[66] 54Thomas Johnson of the parish of Seston [Sefton], " husb"" , owes £1-10s. for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Thomas, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry[36], E(a), (b), (d)] J: [Postscript as under entry[52]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[67] 54farm . A: Tenants B : Sarah Towneley, lately of the parish of Whalley, "spinster" , recusant. C : 8d D : Twothirds of one messuage, with appurtenances, in [ ].57 E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36]. F : 4d from preceding year. G: 1s . 56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[68] 54farm . A: Tenants. B: Oliver Manwaringe, lately of Windle, gent , recusant C : £2-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of one messuage, and of 20 acres of arable ,

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) LANCS 67

meadow & pasture land in Windle aforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36]. F: £1-2-2 & one-third of d. from precedingyear G : £3-6-8.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[69] farm . A: Tenants. B : Thomas Gerrarde, latelyofNewhall, in the parish of Winwick, gent , recusant C : £2-6-8. D

Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, called "le Newhall" : of 25 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land in Asheton [Ashton], and of one windwill in Asheton aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36] F : £1-3-4 from preceding year G : £3-10s . 56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[70] 54farm . A: Tenants B : William Anderton , lately of Anderton, esq., recusant. C : £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of certain demesne lands & other tenements [sic] in Anderton aforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36]. F : £6-13-4 from precedingyear G : £20.56

*[Seized land Rental]

[71] 54farm . A : Tenants B : Brian Hayward, lately of Parre [Parr], "husbandman" , recusant C : 6s 8d. D : Twothirds of one messuage & 4 acres of land in Parre aforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[36]. F : 3s. 4d from preceding year. G: 10s . 56

*[Seized land . Rental]

[72] 54farm . A: Tenants B : John Walton of Ditton, in the aforesaid parish [sic], "carpenter" , recusant C : 3s 4d. D: Two-thirds of one messuage & 5 acres of arable, meadow & pastureland,withapps , in Ditton aforesaid E(a), (b) and(d): as in entry[36] F : 1s 8d from preceding year. G : 5s . 56

[rotulet 27, dorse] (" Adhuc Res' Lancastr'")

*[Seized land. Rental]

[73] 58farm . A : Tenants B : Francis Raws, lately of Dytton [Ditton], "husbandman" , recusant. C : 6s. 8d. D : Twothirds of one messuage & 4 acres of arable meadow, & pasture land, with apps , in Dytton aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 3s. 4d from preceding year. G : 10s . 56

*[Seized land. Rental]8

[74] 58farm . A: Tenants B : John Gerrard, latelyofHollinhey, in the parish ofWynwyck[Winwick], gent., recusant C : 16s. D : Two-thirds of one messuage & tenement, and of 12 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps., in Assheton [Ashton], in the aforesaid parish E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [36]. F : 8s from precedingyear. G : £1-4s . 56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[75] 58farm . A: Tenants. B : John Hallywell of Wrightington, in the parish of Eccleston, gent , recusant C : 4s 8d. D : Two-thirds of one messuage & of2 acres of arable , meadow & pasture land, withappurtenances , in Parbold ; and ofoneacre of arable land, with apps. , in Wrightington, Lancs. E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [36]. F : 2s 4d from preceding year G : 7s . 56 :

[Seized goods & chattels]

[76] 58Thomas Irelande, lately of Wigan, "yoman" , owes £16 , for the price or value ofthe goods, chattels& implements ("utensilium") of the same Thomas, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ...[ref. to entry [36], E(a), (b), (d)]

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " AdhucLanc' Item Lanc'" 59

[Seized goods & chattels]

[77]58RichardChilson, ofWigan aforesaid, "tanner" , owes £5, for the price or value of the goods & implements of the same Richard, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [36], E(a), (b), (d)]

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " AdhucItem Lanc'" .

*[Seized land. Rental]

[78]farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manorofWythington [Withington], Lancs, and of 100 messuages, 100 gardens, 2 water-mills, 200 acres of arable land, 100 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 500 acres of moor& moss-land ("more et mossete"), [and] of£10 worthofrents ("decem librat' reddit'"), with appurtenances , in Wythingtonaforesaid ; also two-thirds of the park of Wythington; all the above (together with service & carting dues, i.e. "the boone & services" of the tenantsthere, and with tithes of the demesne lands ofWythington)60 being ofthe clearyearly value of £216-19s C:£114-12-8.

B : Nicholas Langford, lately of Langford [Longford], Derbyshire, esq. , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £220, by reason of his recusancy E(a) : Thomas Hesketh , esq., & others. E(b) : 30 Sept., 34 Eliz [1592]. E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F : £ 144-12-8 from preceding year. G : £289-5-4.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £144-12-8 , viz the rent of this property from Michaelmas, 34 Eliz. [1592] to Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36Eliz, Hilary term , "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. Andthey owe £144-12-8 .

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[Seized goods& chattels]

[79] Richard Asheton, esq , late sheriff, owes £20, charged upon himself, and received by himself ("et per ipsum recept'"), for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the aforesaid Nicholas Langford, esq , recusant, seized into the Queen's hands by the aforesaid Thomas Hesketh, esq., & others , and delivered to the same sheriff("et eidem vic' deliberat" ") ; cf. Memoranda Roll ... [ref as in entry[78], E(d)].

[Postscript] But he [Asheton] oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]

[Arrearage of rent]

[80] 1A Tenants D : Two-thirds of the demesne lands of Cottom [Cottam], and ofother lands & tenements, withapps., in Cottom , Ingole [Ingol], Woodplumpton & Preston, Lancs B : William Haydock, gent F : £23-7-3 , being the rent duefrom the said property for one whole year ending Ladyday, 31 Eliz [1590]; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under "Adhuc Item Lancastr'".62

[Finefor recusancy, following qui tam action]63

[81] 61[Translation] Sir John Southworthe, knt , of the parish of Blackborne [Blackburn], Lancs., owes £120, charged upon himself , for two-thirdsofthe sum of £180 ("pro duabus terciis partibus summe £180") imposed upon the same John Southworthe, for that he did not frequent any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer, but withdrew himselffor the space of 9 full months, against the form of the statute for a case of this kind made & provided ; as is contained in the Great [Pipe]Roll, 31 Eliz [1589-90], under " Res' Lancastr'".62

*[Seized land Rental] [82]61farm . A : Tenants B : Margaret Holden, widow, recusant C : £1-13-4 . D : Two-thirds of one capital messuage, with appurtenances, commonly called "Shorrocke Hey" , [and] of2 gardens , one orchard & 60 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps. , in Plesyngton [Pleasington], Lancs. , lately of the inheritance of John Issherwood, at one time husband of the aforesaid Margaret . E(b) : 10 Sept., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) Thomas Hesketh, esq , & others E(d) : cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Margaret. F : 16s 8d. from the preceding half-year G : £2-10s.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £1-13-4 , viz . the rent for this year, nor ought the said rent to be charged from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., because Robert Syngleton answers for the same farm from the said Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., from

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) LANCS

which date he [Syngleton] is answerable to the Queen by another commission; as is stated [in this present Recusant Roll] under Item Adhuc Item Res' Lanc'".64 And they owe 16s . 8d . 62 66

*[Seized land . Rental]

[83]61farm . A Tenants B : Robert Catterall of Clayton, in the parish ofBlackborne, "yoman" C : £4-8-10& two-thirds of 1d. D : One tenement & 20 acres of land in Clayton aforesaid E(b), (a) and (d) as in entry[82]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Robert F : £2-4-5 & one-third of 1d from preceding half-year G : £6-13-4.

J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under" Lanc'",for the same rent & the arrears.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[84] 61farm . A: Tenants. B : EdwardChew, latelyofPottersford [Potterford] in Billyngton. C : £3-6-8. D : Two-thirdsofa moiety of one tenement & 14 acres of land in Billingtonaforesaid E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [82] E(c) : Recusancy of the same Edward F : £1-13-4 from preceding half-year. G : £5.

J: [Postscript as under entry[83]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[85] 61farm . A: Tenants. B : John TalbottofSalisbury [Salesbury], deceased. C : £13-6-8 D : Two-thirds of the manor of Salisburye, & ofcertain lands & tenementsin Dynckley[Dinckley], Whilphire [Wilpshire] & Clayton in le Dale, Lancs. E(b) 6 Jan. , 35 Eliz. [1592/3]. E(a) : Nicholas Bannester , esq., & others E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Hilaryterm, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] E(c) : Recusancy of the same John. F : £13-6-8 from preceding year G: £26-13-4.56 :

*[Seized land. Rental]

[86] 61farm . A : Tenants B : John Kyrkeshawe, latelyofColne , "husbandman" C : 10s 8d D : Two-thirds of 5 acres of land. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry[85]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same John F: 10s 8d from preceding year. G : £1-1-4.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[87] 61farm . A: Tenants B : Adam Bolton, lately of Salisbury [Salesbury], "yoman" . C : £2-17-9 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of 8 acres of land in Salisbury, of the yearly value of £1-6-8 ; and of 12 acres of land there, ofthe yearly value of £3. E(b), (a) and (d): as in entry [85] E(c) : Recusancyofthe same Adam. F : £2-17-9& two-thirdsof d. from precedingyear. G : £5-15-61.56

*[Seized land Rental]

[88] farm. A : Tenants.

B : Robert Lawe ofWiswall [Wiswell], "husbandman" C : £ 1-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one tenement E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [85]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Robert . F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G: £2-13-4.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[89] farm . A: Tenants B : Robert Catherall. C : £4-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of one tenement in Clayton in le Dale, estimated to contain 20 acres E(b), (a) and (d) as in entry [85]. E(c) : Recusancyofthe same Robert . F : £4-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d . from precedingyear G : £8-17-9.56

*[Seized land. Rental]

[90] 61farm . A : Tenants. B : Edward Chewe of Potterford. C : £3-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a half of one tenement in Billington, containing 14 acres of land. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [85]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Edward F: £3-6-8. from preceding year G: £6-13-4.56

[Seized goods & chattels]

[91] John Kirkeshawe, lately of Colne, "husbandman" , owes £5 , for the price or value of the goods, chattels & implements of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref. to entry[85], E(b), (a), (d)].

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under " AdhucItem Lancastr'" .

[92]

[Seized goods & chattels]

61Adam Bolton, lately of Salisbury [Salesbury], "yoman" , owes 13s 4d. for the price or value of various implements of the same Adam, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry[85], E(b), (a), (d)]. [Postscript as under entry[91]]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[93] 61Robert Lawe of Wiswall [Wiswell], "husbandman" , owes £10-12s. for the price or value of various implements & of other goods & chattels of the same Robert, taken & seized into the Queen'shands ... [ref to entry[85], E(b), (a), (d)] [Postscript] But he ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by considerationoftheBarons [ofthe Exchequer]; cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 35 Eliz., Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ], where it is considered by the same Barons that Robert Worsley, Thomas Worsley & Robert Colleigue,65 commissioners , oughtto bechargedwith, and answer to the Queen for, the said £10-12s .,

[94]

[95]

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) LANCS

being the price or value of the goods of the aforesaid Robert Lawe. And they answer in the following[Recusant] Roll, under "Lancastr'" .

[L. Margin] It is answered .

[Seized goods & chattels]

John Howar of Wiswall, "wollen webster" , owes £2, forthe price or value ofthe goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen'shands ... [ref to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)].

[Postscript asunder entry[91]].

[Seized goods & chattels]

61Nicholas Dale of Wiswall, owes £5, for the price or value of various chattels & implements of the same Nicholas, taken& seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)].

[Postscript as under entry[91]].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[96]

Henry Whitacres of Burneley, owes £2, forthe priceor value of various implements of the same Henry, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ... [ref. to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)]

[Postscript as under entry [91]]

[Seized goods& chattels]

[97]61James Alston ofWhalley, owes £8-12s for the price or value of various goods, chattels & implements of the same James , taken& seized into the Queen's hands . .. [ref to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)]

[Postscript as under entry [93] but for "£10-12s . " , read "£8-12s . " ; and for "Robert Lawe" , read "James Alston"]. [L. Margin] It is answered .

[rotulet 9] (" Item Adhuc Res' Lancastr'")

[Seized goods& chattels]

[98]66John Gregson ofWhalley, owes £5-10s.for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into theQueen'shands ... [ref to entry[85], E(b), (a), (d)]. 67

[Seized goods& chattels]

[99] 66John Bradley of Chippen [Chipping], owes £3-6-8, for the price or value of various goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)] 67

[100]

[101]

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

[Seized goods & chattels]

66Christopher Issherwood , owes £2, for the price or value of the goods of the same Christopher, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ... [ref to entry [85], E(b), (a), (d)]67

[Seized goods & chattels]

66Robert Catherall, owes £1-6-8, for the price or value ofthe goods & chattels of the same Robert, taken & seized into theQueen'shands ... [ref to entry[85], E(b), (a), (d)] 67

*[Seized land. Rental]

[102] 66farm . A: Tenants B : Ann Mason, widow. C: £4-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of a parcel ofa house & 7 acres ofland, [held] for the term of her life, yearlyvalue £3-6-8 ; and of a certain parcel of the grain-tithe ofNewton ("xmegran' de Newton"), yearly value £3. E(a) : Edmund Fleetwood & others E(b) : 8 Jan., 35 Eliz [1592/3] E(d): cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] E(c) Recusancy of the same Ann F : £4-4-5 & two-thirds of d from preceding year G: £8-8-11.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[103] 66farm . A: Tenants. B : Richard Whittingham, lately of Whittingham. C : 17s 9d & two-thirds of d. D : Twothirdsofa parcel ofa tenement& 4 acres of land in Whittingham aforesaid. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102] E(c) : Recusancy of the same Richard F: 17s. 9d. & two-thirds of d from precedingyear. G : £1-15-7.68

*[Seized land. Rental] [104] 66farm . A: Tenants B : Peter Longworth of Ballam , in the parish of Gosenargh [Goosnargh], "scholemaster" . C: £2-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirdsofonetenement . E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102] E(c) Recusancy of the same Peter . F: £2-4-5& two-thirds of d. frompreceding year. G : £4-8-11.68

*[Seized land Rental] [105] 66farm . A : Tenants B : Richard Worthington . C: £10. D : Two-thirds of a messuage & 30 acres of land in Cophill [Coppul], yearly value £ 10 ; of 3 tenements in Cophill, 1 tenement in Turton and 1 tenement in Brindhill [Brindle], yearly value £5. E(a), (b) and (d) ; as in entry[102] E(c) : Recusancy of the same Richard. F : £10 from preceding year. G: £20.68

*[Seized land Rental]

[106] 66farm . A:

Tenants B : Richard Beseley, lately of Barnaker [Barnacre], " husband' " C : £2-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of one tenement & 12 acres of land in Barnaker aforesaid E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102]. E(c) Recusancy of the same Richard F : £2-4-5 & twothirdsof d. from precedingyear G : £4-8-11.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[107] 66farm . A: Tenants. B : Roger Kighley, lately ofWoodplumpton, in the parish ofWoodplumpton , gent C: £7-2-2 & two-thirds of 1d. D : Two-thirds ofa certain annuityof£4; and of a moiety of one tenement in Gosnargh [Goosnargh], yearly value £6-13-4. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102]. E(c) Recusancy of the same Roger F : £7-2-2 & twothirdsof 1d . from precedingyear. G : £14-4-6.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[108] 66farm . A: Tenants B : William Clifton, latelyofWestby, in the parish of Kirkeham, gent C : £3-6-8. D : Twothirds ofa grain-tithe in Warton("decim' gran' in Warton") E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102]. E(c) Recusancy of the same William F : £3-6-8 from preceding year. G : £6-13-4.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[109] 66farm . A: Tenants. B : Edward Jackson, lately of Westham [Wesham], inthe parish ofKirkeham, "husband' C : 13s 4d. D : Two-thirds of one cottage and 1 acre of land in Westham E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102]. E(c) Recusancy of the same Edward F : 13s. 4d. from preceding year. G: £1-6-8.68

*[Seized land Rental]

[110] 66farm . A : Tenants B : George Singleton, lately of Wesham, in the parish of Kirkeham, "husbandman" . C : 13s. 4d D Two-thirds of one cottage & 2 acres ofland in Wesham. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102] E(c) : Recusancy ofthe same George. F : 13s 4d from preceding year G : £1-6-8.68

*[Seized land Rental]

[111] 66farm . A: Tenants B : William Worthington, lately of Westby, in the parish of Kirkeham , gent C : 13s. 4d D : Two-thirds ofone messuage & 2 acres of land in Westby, [held] for a term of 4 years . E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102] E(c) Recusancy of the same William. F : 13s 4d from precedingyear G : £1-6-8.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[112] 66farm . A: Tenants. B : Robert Bee, lately of Byworth [Byreworth], "carpenter" C : 13s . 4d. D : Two-thirds of a half-part (" dim³ part" ") of one tenement & 4 acres ofland in Barnaker [Barnacre] E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [102] E(c) Recusancy of the same Robert F : 13s . 4d. from precedingyear. G : £1-6-8.8

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*[Seized land. Rental]

[113] 69farm . A : Tenants. B : John Johnson , lately ofWesham, "milner" C : 6s 8d D : Two-thirdsofone cottage& one acreofland. E(b) : 8 Jan., 35Eliz [1592[3]. E(a) : Edmund Fletewood & others E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. E(c) : Recusancy of the same John. F : 6s 8d from preceding year. G : 13s 4d . 68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[114] 69farm . A: Tenants B : John Lawrenson , lately of Wesham , "blacksmythe" C : 6s 8d D : Two-thirds of onecottage & 1 acre of land E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [113]. E(c) Recusancy of the same John F : 6s 8d from precedingyear G : 13s. 4d . 68

[*Seized land Rental] 115] 69farm . A : Tenants. B : Laurence Crooke , lately of Westby C: 13s 4d D : Two-thirds of one messuage & 3 acres of land in Westby. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [113]. E(c) Recusancy of same Laurence F : 13s . 4d. from precedingyear G : £1-6-8.68

*[Seized land. Rental] [116] 69farm . A: Tenants. B : John Knowle, lately of Westby . C : 8s 10d & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of one cottage & 2 acresofland E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry[113]. E(c) Recusancy of same John F : 8s 10d & two-thirds of 1d . from precedingyear G : 17s . 9d . 68

*[Seized land. Rental] [117]69farm . A: Tenants B : William Southworth , "yoman" . C : £2-13-4. D : Two-thirds of one tenement in Westby. E(b), (a) and (d): as in entry [113] E(c) Recusancy_of same William. F : £2-13-4 from preceding year. G: £5-6-8.68

*[Seized land

Rental]68

[118] 69farm . A : Tenants B : William Calvert , lately of Garstange, "carpenter" . C : [ ].70 D : Two-thirds of one cottage & 1 acre of land in Inskip E(b), (a) and (d): as in entry [113]. E(c) : Recusancy of same William . "1

*[Seized land. Rental]

[119] 69farm . A : Tenants B : ThomasJohnson, aliasWilkinson , latelyofThorneton [Thornton], "husbandman" C: £1-2-2 & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of one tenement & 5 acres ofland in Thorneton E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [113]. E(c) Recusancy of same Thomas. F : £1-2-2- & two-thirds of 1d from preceding year G : £2-4-5.68

*[Seized land Rental]

[120] 69farm . A : Tenants B : William Hodgeson, lately of Plympton [Plumpton], "husband'" . C : £3-6-8. D : Twothirds of one tenement & 15 acres of land in Plompton E(b), (a) and (d): as in entry [113] E(c) Recusancy of same William. F: £3-6-8from precedingyear. G: £6-13-4.68

*[Seized land. Rental]

[121] 69farm . A: Tenants B : Robert Worthington, lately of Preston C : £1-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one burgage in Preston in Amondernes, Lancs E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [113] E(c) : Recusancyof same Robert F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G : £2-13-4.68

*[Seized goods]

[122] 69Elizabeth Bancke, lately of Wrightington, in the parish of Eccleston, widow, owes £1-10-4, for the price or value of the goods of the same Elizabeth, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ... [ref to entry [113], E(b), (a), (d)] 72

[Seized goods & chattels]

[123] 69Peter Longeworth, lately of Ballam, in the parish of Gosnarghe [Goosnargh], "scholemaster" , owes £3-6-8, for the price or value of the goods& chattels ofthe same Peter, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref. to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[Seized goods]

[124] 69Elizabeth Bucke, lately ofWestby, widow, owes £2, for the price or value of the goods of the same Elizabeth, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[125]

*[Seized goods]

69George Singleton, lately ofWesham, in the parishofKirkham, " husband'" , owes £1 , for the price or value of the goods of the same George, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ... [ref. to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[Seized goods& chattels]

[126] John Johnson, lately of Wesham, "milner" , owes£2, forthe price or value of the goods & chattels ofthe same John , taken & seized into the Queen's hands . .. [ref to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[127]

[Seized goods & chattels]

69John Laurenson, lately of Wesham, "blacksmyth" , owes £2 , for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ... [ref toentry [113], E(a), (b), (d)]. 72

[Seized goods]

[128] 69George Bamber, lately ofWestby, owes £5, for the priceor value ofthe goods ofthe same George, taken & seized into the Queen'shands ... [ref to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[Seized goods& chattels]

[129] 69John Knowle, lately of Westby, owes £2, for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[130]

[Seized goods & chattels]

69William Sotheworth, "yoman" , owes £10 , for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same William, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref to entry [113], E(b), (a), (d)] 72

[Seized goods& chattels]

[131] 69Henry Richardson, lately of Pulton[Poulton], " husband" " owes £12 , for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same Henry, taken & seized into the Queen's hands .. . [ref. to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

[Seized goods & chattels]

[132]69James Bramber, lately of Laton [Layton], " husb'" , owes £3-6-8, for the price or value ofvarious goods & implements of the same James, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . .. [ref to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)].72

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[Seized goods & chattels]

[133]69John Crooke, latelyofLittle Marton, "husband'" , owes £4, for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands ...[ref. to entry [113], E(b), (a), (d)] 72

[Seized goods]

[134]69William Hodgeson , latelyofPlimpton[Plumpton], " husb"" , owes £1 , for the price or value of the goods of the same William, taken & seized into the Queen's hands . . . [ref. to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)] 72

[Seized goods]

[135] Robert Worthington, latelyof Preston, owes £6-13-4 forthe price or value ofthe goods ofthe same Robert, taken & seized into the Queen'shands ... [ref. to entry[113], E(b), (a), (d)]. 72

**[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[136] 69farm . A: John Gill [lessee] C : £11-6-8 D : Twothirdsofonecapital messuage & of 60 acres ofarable, meadow & pasture land, with appurtenances, in Little Crosby, Lancs , of which Richard Blundell, father of William Blundell of Crosby, in the parish of Seaffton [Sefton], Lancs , gent , recusant ("recusantis"), was seised & possessed at his death ; afterwhose death the aforesaid messuage, lands & tenements etc. descended to the aforesaid William Blundell as son & heir , by virtue of which the said William Blundelltook possession ("intravit"), and was and is still seised of the same ; of the yearly value of £5, of which two-thirds due yearly to the Queen amounts to £3-6-8. Also, two-thirds of one windmill in Crosby, of which the aforesaid Richard Blundellwas also seised & possessed at death, the said millthereupon descending to the aforesaid William Blundell, as above ; of the clear yearly value of£2 (£1-6-8 per ann due to the Queen) Likewise, two-thirds of 16 messuages, 16 gardens, 100 acres of arable, 40 acres of meadow & 100 acres of pasture land, with appurtenances , in Crosby, then in the several tenures of several tenants, of which the said Richard Blundellwas seised and possessed at his death, the said property thereupon descendingto the aforesaid William Blundell, as above ; the annual rents amounting to £10 (£6-13-4 per ann. due to the Queen) B : William Blundell, recusant. E(b) : 13 April, 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) : Thomas Hesketh, esq , & others. H(a) Aforesaid John Gill, his executors & assigns H(b): From 2 March, 36 Eliz. [1593/4]. H(c). H(d): as C. H(e). H(k) cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz. , under " Lanc"" . : J: And he [Gill] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " Item Lanc'",forthe same rent & the arrears.

[Record of annual fine paid]

[137] A John Towneley, esq C. D : £260 H. E : From 18 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593], to 17 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], i.e. 13 [lunar] months. K. G.

P : On 6 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £120 was paidinto theTreasury. And on 5 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. And heisquit.

**[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[138]farm . A RichardBradshawe, gent [lessee ] C : £4, [due] at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594], being part ofan annual rentof £8. D : The whole capital messuage & tenement , with appurtenances, in Fazakerley, and 50 acres of arable, meadow , pasture & wood-land, with apps , in Fazakerley aforesaid, belonging to the said capital messuage, in the tenure of Edward Tarleton, gent , recusant ; also the whole of various closes ofland in Garston, called"Two Brandearths" , estimated to contain 6 acres, "le Marled Feild" (2 acres), "BarseyHey" (2 acres), "Bromefeild" (2 acres), "Ryehey" (2 acres), "Shepcotefeild"(2acres), "Bothome Hey" (3 acres), "Pingo Meadow" (2 acres), "Pasnipfeild" (6 acres), "Brakefeld" (6 acres) : the above being two-thirds of the lands and possessions of. B: "The aforesaid Tarleton" , recusant. E(b) : 8 Jan. , 36 Eliz. [1593/4]. E(a) : John Bradshawe, esq., and others. H(a) Aforesaid Richard Bradshawe, hisexecutors& assigns. H(b) From 8 April, 36 Eliz. [1594] H(c) H(d) : £8. H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz , under "Lanc'" .

J: And he [R. Bradshawe] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under" Item Lanc" " ,for this rent & the arrears.

†[Lease of seized land Rental] [139]farm. A Richard Kindesley, a yeoman of thechamber royal [lessee] C : £2-4-5 & one-third of 1d , [due] at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz., [1594], being part of an annual rent of £4-8-10 & two-thirdsof1d. D : Two-thirdsof one tenementinClayton in le Dale, Lancs , estimated to contain 20 acres . B : Robert Catherall, recusant E(b) : 6 Jan., 35 Eliz [1592/3] E(a) : Nicholas Bannester, esq., & others " H(a) Aforesaid Richard Kindesley, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 8 July, 36 Eliz [1594]. H(d) : £4-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d . H(e). H(k) asin entry[138].

J: And he [Kindesley] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Item Lanc"",for this rent& the arrears

**[Lease of seized land. Rental] [140]farm . A Richard Kindesley, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £3-17-3, [due] at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz. [1594], being part of an annual rent of £7-14-6. D : The

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) LANCS

wholemanorofClaughton, with appurtenances, in Launsdall [Lonsdale], Lancs.; a whole water-mill, one free fishery (" liber piscar"") in the water of Loyne [Lune] Lancs, and all other messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments of William Crofte of74 Claughton aforesaid ; also a whole messuage & tenement in Tatham Lancs , and certain lands, tenements & hereditaments in Tatham aforesaid pertaining to it ; also 6 messuages & tenements, and all other messuages, lands & tenements of the said William Crofte in Caton, Lancs the above being two-thirds of the lands and possessions of .. . B : William Crofte, esq. , recusant. E(b): 4 April, 36 Eliz [1594]. H(b) : From 8 July, 36 Eliz. [1594]. H(c) H(d) : £7-14-6. H(e) H(k) : as entry[138] J : On 30 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], he [Kindesley] delivered ("lib'") this sum in theTreasury. Andhe is quit.

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†[Lease of seized land Rental] [141]farm . A; Robert Syngleton [lessee] C : £1-13-4 . D:

Two-thirds of the capital messuage, with appurtenances, commonly called "Sharrockhey" ; and of 2 gardens, 1 orchard, & 60 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land, with apps., in Pleasyngton, Lancs , lately of the inheritance of a certain John Issherwood, at one time husband of Margaret Holden, widow, recusant, ofwhichshe is seised in herdemesne , as offreehold estate, for the term of her life B : Margaret Holden, widow, recusant. E(b) : 10 Sept., 35 Eliz. [1593].

E(a) Thomas Hesketh, esq., & others H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Singleton, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz. , under " Lanc'" :

J : On 7 May, 36 Eliz [1594], 16s 8d was paid fromthisfarm intotheTreasury And on 17 Oct., 36Eliz [1594], 16s. 8d. was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Singleton] is quit

[Sheriff's account (translation)]75 [142] Ralph Asheton, esq., sheriff of the CountyofLancaster , owes £81-5-01 , charged upon himself, and levied by him from the goods & chattels, lands & tenements of the several undermentioned recusants , for the satisfaction of their several debts viz. From the goods & chattels of Robert Adamson [32], 76 £5-0-8 ; of Thomas Johnson of the parish ofSypton [Sefton], [66], £1-10s.; of John Blackburne [34], 3s. 4d.; of William Farrington& John Bradshawe, esqs , (taken by them from the goods & chattels of Alice Clifton, widow) [28], £13-6-8 ; of George Syngleton of Wesham [125], £1 ; of John Johnson of the same [126], £2 ; of John Lawrenson

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) LANCS 81 [127], £2 ; and from the lands & tenements of Robert Ball of Wyndle [39], £4 ; of Peter Wetherby [42], £2 ; of Thomas Gerrard of Newhall [69], £3-10s.; of William Clyfton of Ballam [26], 13s 4d.; ofRichard Whittingham [103], £1-15-7; of Edward Jackeson [109], £1-6-8 ; of Robert Bee [112], £1-6-8 ; of John Lawrenson [114], 13s. 4d ; of Laurence Crooke [115], £1-6-8 ; of William Southworthe [117], £3 ; ofWilliam Hodgeson [120], £4 ; ofWilliam Winstanley [49], £2 ; of Robert Catterall [89], £4-8-10 ; of Henry Lathom [10], £4-19-4 ; of Margaret Holden [17], £17-16-1d.; of Robert Lawe [88], £2-13-4 ; of John Gregson [64], 10s. ; ofRobert Adamson [16], 4s 5d.: asis contained in Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] [Postscript] On 15 Feb., 37 Eliz. [1594/5], £52-7-8d, was paid into the Treasury. And on 15 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £25-0-8 was paid into the Treasury. And £3-16-8 is allowed to the same sherifffor moneypaid by him to a certain Richard Holland, esq , & to certain other commissioners & jurors assigned to inquire of the goods & chattels of the recusants in the said county; cf. theprocess on thismatter & the considerationofthe Barons [ofthe Exchequer], noted inMemoranda Roll, L.T.R., 37 Eliz , Hilary term, under "Statuset Vis' Compotorum" . Andhe [sheriff] holdsa balance of d., which he remits to the Queen And he is quit.

[Enrolments ofestreatedconvictions for recusancy]77 [143] A: William Chesheare , lately of Holme in the parish of Wynwick[Winwick], Lancs , "husbandman" B. D : £100

F : £60. G. H. J : for 3 months following 7 Oct., 37 Eliz. [1595] L : £40 M : Tuesday, 10 Aug., 38 Eliz. [1596] N : from date of conviction to 5 Oct., 38 Eliz , viz. 2 [lunar] months. O.

Elizabeth Gerrard, lately of Ashtonin the parish of Wynwick, Lancs. , "spinster" , wife of John Gerrard, gent

Ellen Mason, lately of Wigan Woodhouses in the parish of Wigan, Lancs., widow [ ] 78£100for the like [ ]

Ann Standyshe , lately of the same, "spinster" , wife of Ralph Standyshe of the same, gent , owes £100 for the like. [Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt] for the reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under " Res' Lanc'" , in anotherdebtofthe same Ann. And she isquit. Cecily Berrye, lately of the same , "spinster" [ ] £100 forthelike

82 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

Margaret Markeland , lately of Wigan, "spinster" , wife of Oliver Markeland ofthe same , gent .

ThomasFairebrother, latelyofthesame , "potter" .

Roger Haslam, lately of the same , "pedlar"

WilliamMollyneux , lately ofPemberton in the parish of Wigan aforesaid, "husbandman"

Ellen Pemberton, lately of the same, "spinster" , wife of Richard Pemberton of Pemberton aforesaid , gent

Robert Lathwayte, senior , lately of the same , "husbandman"

Ann Naylior,latelyofthe same, widow

Robert Langton, lately of Hyndley [Hindley] in the parish ofWigan, "webster"

Ann Talbott,latelyofCarreinWilpshire, in the parish of Blackburne , "spinster" , wife of GeorgeTalbott ofthe same , gent

Mary Singleten, "spinster" , wife of Thomas Singleton, latelyofScalles [Newton with Scales] inthe parish of Lancaster , esq .

Elizabeth Calvert, alias Browne, lately ofthe same , "spinster"

Richard Kydd, lately of Fazakerley in the parish of Walton, "husbandman"

Margaret Kydde, lately of the same , "spinster" , wife of Richard Kydde of the same, "husbandman"

Margaret Fazakerley, latelyofthesame , widow

Margaret Barker, lately of Derbye [West Derby] in the parish of Walton , widow

Alice Peper, lately of Leverpoole [Liverpool] in the aforesaid parish, "spinster"

Bridget Standley, wife of Edward Standley, lately of Moorehall [Moor Hall] in the parish of Aughton, gent

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

Katherine Marshe, lately of Ditton in the parish ofPrescotte, widow .

Margaret Blundell, lately of Boulde [Bold] in the aforesaid parish, widow

Elizabeth Shepley, latelyof Crontonin the aforesaidparish, "spinster"

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George Bradshawe , lately of Gravecake in the parish of Leigh, "yoman" , owes £100 for thelike

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 7 James I, Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And heis quit

RogerSalle, latelyofHoppcarre [Hopecarr] in the parish aforesaid, "yoman"

Margaret Bradshawe , lately of Gravecake in the aforesaid parish, "spinster" , wife of Christopher Bradshawe, lately of the same , "yoman"

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Richard Mawdisley , lately of Overforde in "the"parish"of Warrington, "yoman" B. D : £140 F : £100 . G. H. J: for 5 months following 17 Aug. 37 Eliz [1595] L : £40.

Dorothy Massye, wife of William Massie, lately of Rixton in the aforesaid parish, esq. , owes £140 forthelike.

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 7 James I, Easter term, "Recorda" section , rotulet[ ]. Andsheisquit.

Ann Rowlandson, lately of the same , widow

Henry Ratchdaile, lately of Muchewooltonin the parish ofChildwall, "husbandman'

Ralph Hitcheman, lately of the same , " husb'"

Elizabeth Challyner, latelyof thesame , widow

William Lake, lately of Garston in the [ ] £140 for the like [ ] , [ ] [ ] aforesaid parish, "husbandman" . [ ]

Alice Lake, wife of William Lake, latelyofthe same

EllenWhitfeild , lately ofthe same,widow ( )

Alice Baxter, latelyofthe same,widow. "Geneta" Chalenor, alias Chawnor , latelyofthesame , widow ]

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William Haward, lately of the same , "webster"

Katherine Haward, wife of the said

William

Percival Chalinor, alias Chawnor , latelyofthe same , "carpenter"

Katherine Chalenor, alias Chawnor, wife ofthe said Percival "Geneta" Ireland, lately of the same , widow

AliceSadler , latelyofWartrie[?Wavertree] in the aforesaidparish, widow

Alice Woodley, lately of the same , widow

"Geneta" Vawce, lately of Litle

Wolton [Woolton] in the aforesaid parish, widow

William Hitchmeugh, latelyofthesame , "lynnen webster"

Alice Almond, latelyofAllerton in the aforesaid parish, widow

Elizabeth Milner, lately of Speake [Speke] in the aforesaid parish, widow

Henry Corker , lately of the same ,

"husb'"

IsabellaCorker ,wifeofthe said Henry

Edmund Chawnor, alias Chalenor , lately ofthe same, "husband'

Henry Mones, lately of the same , husband'"

William Wainewright , lately of the same , "husb' وو

Edward Wainewright, lately of same , " husb "Geneta" Brookes , lately of the same , widow

JaneNorres, latelyofthe same ,widow

John Pendleton, lately of the "husband""

for the like

Henry Cooke , lately of the husband'" " husband' same , [ ] same, [ ]

William Norres, lately of the same , وو

Elizabeth Norres, wife of the said William

William Mercer , latelyof Oglett in the aforesaid parish, “ husb’ ”

Margaret Bradshawe , latelyofthesame , widow

William Mellinge, lately of Sefton ,

in the aforesaid county, " husb'"

Margaret Barker, lately of the same , "spinster" , wife of Richard Barker of the same , "yoman" .

William Rice, lately of Little Crosby inthe aforesaidparish,"saler" .

Peter Stoke, lately of the same , "yoman" .

Margery Marser, lately of Lytherland inthe aforesaidparish,widow .

140 for the like

Alice Tyrer, lately of Muche Crosbye inthe aforesaidparish, widow . [ ] „

Margaret Maghull , lately of Ametrie [Aintree] in the aforesaid parish, widow

Katherine Houghton, latelyofCharnock

Richard in the parish of Standishe, "spinster" , wife of Richard Houghtonof the same, gent . .

¹Text as C.R.S.XVIII, p 156, 1. I seq (with variant phrasings) to " Regine huius in Lanc'" Entries [1] to [3] inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : "Fieri facias" to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (" fi' fa' Cancellar' Ducatus Lanc'"). Cf. Introd, p cvi, note 433. 3Text as op cit, p 156, 1.20 seq (with variant phrasings) to " Sicut cont' ibid'" *Text as op cit, p. 156 , 1. 41 seq. withvariant phrasings , to" tempore existen'ibid'" . Cf. op cit , p. 157, 1. 30 seq to" inMDiiijxx.I" . 6Entries [4] to [16] are bracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' Cancellar ' ducat' Lanc " ; see note (2) above. 7" Ac reddit' al' tenen' ad volunt' pro termino vite & annor'" in MS 8The Act 28 Eliz , cap 6 "Entries [4] to [8] inclus, are bracketed , R. , with the note : Andthey answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under " Lanc' " , for the same several rents & the arrears op cit , p. 157 , 1. 38 seq to"Act' pred' ibid"" . 12Text asop. cit., p. 158 , 1. 11 seq. to" Act' pred'ibid'" . as op cit, p 158, 1.18 seq. to "Act' pred' ibid'" , op. cit., p. 158 , 1. 24 seg "

10Textas 11Cf . entry[4], B. 13Text 14Text as to seqcf . 15Text as op cit, p 158 , 1.41 equales porciones ibid'" . 16Sic ; for £1-6-11 op cit., p. 159. 18Entries [10]to [14] inclus, are bracketed , R. , with the note : And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under "Lanc"" , for the same several rents & the arrears 10Text as op cit., p 160, 1. 1 seq. to"capt' etseisit " . 20Text as op cit , p 160, 1. 14 seq. to "sicut cont' ibid'" 21Text as op. cit , p. 161 , 1. 11 seq to " capt' et seisit'" 22Text asop. cit, p 161, I.22 seq to " capt' et seisit'" 23Cf. op cit , pp 164-5 24Text as op cit , p 162, 1. 28 seq to" capt' et seisit'" . 25Not "Whittington" , as in C.R.S. , XVIII, loc cit. 26Cf. op cit., pp. 163-4 . 27Entries [17] to [45] inclus, are bracketed , L. , withthenote : "fi'fa' cancellar ' ducat' Lanc"" ; see note(2), above 28Cf. op cit., pp 164-5 29Cf. entry [141], p 87 , below

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) LANCS

arrears

30MS rather worn : thenote appears to be "per di[visionem ] 30s . per utr' firmar ' . 31Cf. op cit., p 165, 1. 6 seq. 32Text as op cit. , p. 165, 1. 30 seq. to " equales porc"" 33"diu" ; not "domini" , as in C.R.S., XVIII, loc cit 34Cf . op cit , pp 166170. 35Text as op cit , p 160, l 21 seq to "Com' Lanc'" . 36Space left in MS for the name ofthe place. 37Entries [21] to [35] inclus., are bracketed , R., with the note : And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under "Item Lancastr"" 38Cf. op cit, p 161. 39Text as op cit , p 161 , 1. 5 seq. to "seisit'ibid"" . 40Text as op. cit , p 161 , 1. 36 seq.to"capt'et seisit'" 41Cf . op cit, pp 161-2 42Any period beginning after Ladydayand endingat the following Michaelmaswas counted as a half-year 43Cf . op cit., p. 158. 44Text as op cit., p 162, 1. 19, seq. to recusantis ibid'" . 45Text as op cit , p 162, 1. 23 seq to "vidue recusantis" 46Text as op. cit, p 162, 1. 39 seq to "vidue recusantis" 47Text as op cit, p 162, 1. 43 seq to"recusantis ibid"" 48Text asop. cit., p 163 , 1. 1 seq to "recusantis ibid"" 49Text as op cit., p 163, 1. 4 seq. to" capt' et seisit'" . 50Text as op cit , p 163, 1. 10 seq. to"seisit'ibid'" . 51Text as op cit, p 163 , 1. 15 seq to "capt etseisit " . 52Cf . op. cit, p. 163. 53Entries[36]to [43] inclus , are bracketed , R., with the note : And they answer in [Recusant ] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under " Lanc'" , for the same several rents & their 54Entries [46] to [72] inclus, are bracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' cancellar' Ducat' Lanc'" ; see note (2) above 55The bracketed words are omitted here in MS, but present at the beginningofentry 56Entries[57] to[65] inclus, [67]to [72]inclus., [73] to [75] inclus, and [85] to [90] inclus, are bracketed, R., with the note: And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under "Item Lanc'" , for the same several rents & their arrears. 57Space left in MS for the name ofthe place. 58Entries [73] to [77] inclus., are bracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' Cancellar' ducat' Lanc'" ; see note (2) above 59Sic, for " Adhuc Item Lanc'" . 60Text of the parenthesised passage : "cum servic' et averagiisAnglice the Boone & services tenenciu' ibidem et cum decimis terr' dominicaliu' de Wythington pred"" . "Averagia" were carting services due fromthe tenant, with his beasts ofburden, to his feudal lord. The "boon" was unpaid service of various kinds due from the tenant to his lord 61Entries [80] to [97] inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' Cancellar ' Ducat Lanc'" ; see note (2) above 62Entries [80] to [82] inclus, are bracketed ,R.,withthe note : Andtheyanswer separately in[Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Adhuc Item Lancastr'" . 63Cf. Introd. , pp xv-xx, and footnote 49. 64Cf. entry [141] below. 65?Or"Colleigne" 66Entries [98]to[112] inclus , arebracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' Cancellar' Ducat' Lanc'" ; see note (2) above 67Entries [98] to [101] inclus , are bracketed , R. , with the note : And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under "Adhuc ItemLancastr " 68Entries[102]to[112] inclus, and [113] to [121] inclus, are bracketed , R., with the note : And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under "Item Lanc'" , for the same several rents & their arrears 69Entries [113] to [136] inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : "fi' fa' Cancellar Ducat' Lanc'" ; see note (2) above 70Space left in MS for the amount of rent due 71Arrears and total debt omitted in MS 72Entries [122] to [135] inclus, are bracketed , R., with the note : And they answer separately in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Adhuc Item Lancastr 74"de" in MS(?for"in")

73See entry [89]. 75Theform ofthis entryis interesting Ashton, being a palatinate sheriff, was not summoned personally

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76The to accountat the royal Exchequer Cf. Introd, p. cvii added figuresin square bracketsrefer to the numbered entries in the text above . It will be seen that some of these sums are only partpayments . 77All the following items are bracketed , L., with the note : Leta commission be issued("fi[at] Commissio"). 78The bracketshere & in items below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion, when required, of the word "debet" (owes) : cf. Introd. , p xcix

23

, dorse

[Preamble]

] LEICESTERSHIRE(" Leic""

)

[1] William Turpyne, esq., sheriff ofthis countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Michaelmas, 36 Eliz , renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Seized land Rental]

[2] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in the parish ofLinley[Lindley], Leics., being a parcel of the manor ofLinley aforesaid. C: £6-13-4. B : Walter Whitehall , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,040, by virtue of a certain Act¹ of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Leic"" ; and preceding [Recusant] Rill under, " Leic'".2 J: On 10 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £2-10s. was paid from this farm into the Treasury, under the name of Audley ("Audelei") Dennys. And on 18 Nov., 37 Eliz. [1594], £2-10s. was paid.. [etc. as above] under thename of the same Audley Dennys. And they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £1-13-4 because they stand to be discharged thereof by virtue of an order or decree of this Exchequer, dated Michaelmas term, 29 Eliz, recorded in the Book of Orders or Decrees of the Treasurer's Remembrancer'sside. And they are quit

[Seized land. Rental] [3] farm . A Tenants B : George Bull, junior, of Assordley [? Asfordby], "husbandman" , recusant C : 13s 4d D : Two-thirdsof a certain lease for a term ofabout 38 yearsstill to run, ofand in a moiety of one messuage & 2 virgates of land, and of [a further] 1 virgate of land, with appurtenances, in Assordley aforesaid, [? granted to Bull] by letters-patent of the present Queen dated 23 May, 24 Eliz [1582]; of the yearly value (apart from reserved rent) of £1 . E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Leic'".3 F: £1-6-8 from previous years G : £2

'The Act 28 Eliz , cap 6

1. 1 seq to "xxxiijeloin Leic"" . seq to "pred' Georgii"

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 154, 3Text as op cit., p 154 , 1. 19

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[Preamble]

LINCOLNSHIRE

("Lincoln'")

[1] Valentine Browne, esq , sheriff ofthis county from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., toMich., 36 Eliz., renders ... [etc. as Berkshire[1]].

[Seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds ofthe manor of Brentbroughton [Brant Broughton], with appurtenances. C : £21-2-10% . B : William, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, recusant, whois indebted tothe Queen in the sum of£1,420, byvirtueofa certain Act2 of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under " Lincoln'" . F: £21-2-10% for Charles Hussey, esq , late sheriff of this county for the year 33 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll of 33 Eliz , under " Item Lincoln'" ; viz the rent due from this farm for the year 33 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll of 33 Eliz , under " Lincoln'" . [Furtherarrears] £42-5-9 from previous years. G : £84-11-7

J: On 13 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £7-19-2was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury. And they [tenants] owe £76-12-5 .

[Seized land. Rental]³

[3] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of various messuages , cottages, lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Newton [? by Toft], Lincs C : £2-2-21, being the remainder [of an original rent] of £3-15-6 . B : John Morley, recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £220, by virtue of the aforesaid Act.2 E(d) : as in entry [2] F : £2-10-6 from previous years G : £4-12-9.

J : For which the sheriffanswers below. " [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³

[4] farm . A John Bendbowe [lessee] C : £43-6s D : Twothirds of one messuage or tenement, with one cottage & 78 acres ofpastureinIngoldmells ; and ofvarious other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Orby and Ingoldmells aforesaid, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Res' Lincoln'" . B : Thomas Allott, recusant H(a) Aforesaid John Bendbowe, his executors & assigns. H(b): From 4 June 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry[2], E(d) F : £64-19s G : £108-5s. J :[Postscripts as under entry[3]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]6

[5] farm . A Edward Billesby, esq., & Michael Hennage, gent. [lessees]. C: £51-6-8 D : Two-thirds of the manor of Beilsbye [Beelsby] & Irenham [Irnham] ; and of other lands

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

& tenements, with apps., in Beilsbye & Irenham aforesaid , Lincs. B : John Thymolby, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Edward & Michael, their executors & assigns H(b) : From 23 July, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e).

J: On 13 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £25-13-4 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 12 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £25-13-4was paid ...[etc. as above]. And they [Billesby & Hennage] arequit.

[Lease of seized land Rental] [6] farm. A : Edward Helwys [lessee] C: £37-7-41; 9 capons ; 12 pecks of barley ; 2 quarters, 2 pecks & two-thirds ofa peck ofmalt ; 4 capons ; 2 quarters, 5 pecks& two-thirds of a half-peck of malt ; 10oz of pepper ; and 10 oz. of cummin D : Two-thirds ofthe manor of Corby, Lincs , with appurtenances; and of various messuages, lands & tenements in Bulby & Awthorp [Hawthorpe], in the parish of Irneham , Lincs. B: John Thymolby, lately of Irenham [Irnham], gent, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Edward Helwys, his executors & assigns H(b): From 15 July, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c). H(d) : £40-0-5 , including the barley, malt, capons, pepper & cumin ("priced by the Barons of the Exchequer, in all, at £2-13-1 "). H(e) H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Lincoln'" . G : £40-0-5%

J: On 13 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £19-19-8 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 12 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £19-19-8 waspaid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Helwys] owes 1s .old.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[7] farm. A: Tenants. B : Andrew Litlebury of Asheby [? Ashby in Bottesford], gent C : £4 D : Two-thirds of one messuage in Ashebye aforesaid, with appurtenances E(b) 2 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) : Sir George St. Poll, knt., & others E(c) : Recusancy of the same Andrew. E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ].

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[8] farm. A : Tenants B : John Morreley of Toftnewton [Newton by Toft], "yoman" C : £8-1-8 D : Two-thirds ofa lease, still to run for several years, ofthe Dean & Chapter of Lincoln ("dimissionis Decani et Capituli Lincoln'"), lying in Newton, ofthe yearly value of 2s 6d ; and ofthe lease of one messuage in Lyndwood [Linwood], still to run for a term of 35 years, of the yearly value of £12 E(b), (a) and (d): as in entry [7]. E(c) : Recusancyof the same John.

J : [Postscripts as under entry [3]]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[9] Nicholas Saunderson, esq. , sheriff, owes £5, whichsum he has received("quas [libras] recepit") by the hands ofthe aforesaid commissioner, 10for the price ofthegoods& chattels ofHumphrey Cowardon , recusant ; cf. Memoranda Roll ... [as in entry [7], E(d)].

[

Seized goods & chattels]

[10] The same sheriff owes £12-15s ., similarly received("recept'") by him by the hands of the aforesaid commissioners,10 for the price ofthe goods & chattels ofJohn Burrell, recusant ; cf. .. [ref as in entry[7], E(d)]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[11] The same sheriff owes £13-6s ..... [etc. as in entry [10]] ... fortheprice ofthe goods& chattelsofJohnMorreley,recusant cf ... [ref. as in entry [7], E(d)].

[Seized goods& chattels]

[12] The same sheriff owes £3-6-8, similarly received by him by the hands of Edward Heron and other commissioners , for the price of the goods & chattels of George Tyler, recusant ; cf ... [ref. as in entry[7], E(d)].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[13] The same sheriff owes £2 ... [etc. as in entry [12]] .. . for the price ofthe goods & chattels of Edward Thimbleby, gent., recusant ; cf ... [ref as in entry[7], E(d)].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[14] The same sheriff owes 10s . . [etc. as in entry [12]] . . for the price ofthe goods& chattelsofJohnClawes, gent , recusant; cf ...[ref. as inentry[7], E(d)].

*+[Lease ofseized land Rental]

[15]farm . A: William Fitzwilliams, gent [lessee]. C : £20. D: The whole manor of Immingham , Lincs , withappurtenances, and all the other lands, tenements & hereditaments of the late Sir Robert Tirwhitte, knt , deceased, of Immingham aforesaid, of which a certain Elizabeth Tirwhitte is seised for the term of her life, as her jointure, by grant of the said Sir Robert Tirwhitte, knt , father of William Tirwhitte, esq. , deceased, late husband of the said Elizabeth ; of the clear yearly value, in all issues (charges deducted) of £13-6-8 ; also the whole lease of a capital messuage, with apps , commonly called "Twigmore" , with all messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , pertaining to the same messuage in Twigmore aforesaid, in the parishes of Boltesford [? Belchford],

Manton & Messingham, Lincs , " the lease to run for 12 years from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz [1953] (if the same Elizabeth live that long), by grant & surrender of Roger Ascoughe, esq. & Gervase Markeham, esq , to whom the aforesaid William Tirwhitt, deceased, granted the same premises for a further term ; ofthe clear yearly value, in all issues (reserved rents & other charges deducted), of £6-13-4; the above being twothirds of the lands & possessions of ... B : Elizabeth Tirwhitte, lately of Kettlebye in the parish of Bigbye, Lincs. , widow, recusant. E(b) : 10 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(a)

William Fitzwilliams, esq. , & others. H(a) : Aforesaid

William Fitzwilliams, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c). H(d) : £13-6-8 (for the manor of Immingham etc.) : £6-13-4 (for Twigmore etc.) H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz., under" Lincoln'"

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[16]farm. A : Tenants. B : Elizabeth Tirwhitt of Thorpe, widow C : £3-6-8. D : Two-thirds of the lease of a capital messuage, & of various meadows, grazing lands, pastures& hereditaments, with apps., inThorpe near Kettlebye, Lincs., made over to the same Elizabeth (" inde fact' eidem Elizabeth") by William Tirwhitt, esq. , deceased, for a term of 16 years from Michaelmas, 1589. E(b) and (a) : as in entry [15]. E(c) Recusancy of the same Elizabeth E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmasterm , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ]

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[17] A The same sheriff, viz. Valentine Browne, esq B [3] £4-12-9 (Morley's tenants) [4] £ 108-5s (Bendbowe). [7]£4 (Litlebury's tenants). [8] £8-1-8 (Morreley's tenants [9] to [14] £36-17-8 (Saunderson's particulars).

C : £185-3-9

[15] £20 (Fitzwilliams) [16] £3-6-8 (Tirwhitt's tenants)

D : [3] On 13 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £1-1-1 was paidintothe

Treasury (from Morley's tenants) And on 12 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £1-1-1 was paid ... [etc. as above]

[4] On same dates, two sums of £21-13s were paid into the Treasury(from Bendbowe).

[8] On 12 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], one sum of £8-1-8 was paid into the Treasury (from Morreley's tenants)

[15] On ult. April, 36 Eliz. [1594] and 12 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], two sums of £10 were paid into the Treasury (from Fitzwilliams)

ROLL2.MICH. 35-36ELIZ (1593-4) LINCS-LONDON& MIDDLX

[16] On 12 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], one sum of £3-6-8 was paid into the Treasury (from Tirwhitt's tenants)

[4] Bendbowe answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under "Lincoln'" , for the remaining £64-19s of his debt . 12

[7] Litlebury's tenants answer for their rent of £4 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under"Lincoln'" , after their farm . 12

[3] On 16 Nov., 35 Eliz., [1593] £2-2-3 was paid into the Treasury (from Morley's tenants).

E : And on 27 May, 38 Eliz [1596], £37-6s was paid into the Treasury by the said sheriff , to settle the remainder of his account . 13

And he [sheriff] has [a surplus of 1d.]. 14

3Cf . op. cit , p. 149 .

Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p. 148, 1. 23 seq . to "xxxiijeloin Lincoln" "The Act 28 Eliz. , cap 6 "Cf. entry [17], D. "Text as op cit , p. 149, 1. 42 seq . to "existen ibid " Text asop. cit, p 150, 1. 12 seq (withvariantphrasings) to "Scaccarii equaliter" "Sic in MS Not "Beilesly" , as in C.R.S., loc cit. Cf. op. cit., pp 150-151 . "Entries [9] to [14] inclus are bracketed , L. , with the note : [the sheriff] is charged, unless ... ; and R. , with the note: Total of these 6 debts , £36-17-8 ; for which the sheriff answers below Cf. entry [17], D. 10Cf . entry [7], E(a). 11Text of the remainder of this passage "pro termino duodecem annor' a festo Michaelis Archangeli anno xxxvto Regine huius si eadem Elizabeth tamdiu vixerit ex concessione & tradicione RogeriAscoughear' & JervasiiMarkeham ar' quibus pred' Willelmus Tirwhitt defunct' eadem concessit pro ulterior' termino valen' per ann' in omnibus exit' ultra reddit' indereservat'& repris' sex libr' tresdecem solid' & quatuor denar'" . 12Note in L. Margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur") The sheriff (Browne) was therefore discharged of this amount 13Including [9] to [14] (Saunderson's particulars). 14 " Et hab'" in MS.

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9] LONDON & MIDDLESEX

[Preamble] ("London' Midd"")

[1] Paul Banninge & Peter Houghton, sheriffs of this countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz, to Mich., 36 Eliz , render . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Hugh Cuffe, gent [lessee] C : £3 , being part of £75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10. D : The whole messuage or tenement called "le Blewbell" in Breadstreate, in the city of London ; being a parcel of the lands and possessions of . . . B : William Tucker , recusant

H(a) ; Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors& assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 27 Eliz. [1585]. H(c) ... "forthe satisfaction ofthe debt of the aforesaid William Tucker" . H(d) : £3

H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "London' Midd"" . F : £21 from previous years ; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, and the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "London' Midd'" G : £24

[Enrolments ofestreated convictions for recusancy]2

[3] A Geoffrey Throwgoodofthe parish ofSt. Andrew, Holborn, inthe ward ofFarringdon Without London, gent. B. D : £40.

E: From ult. Jan. , 38 Eliz. [1595/6] to 1 April following, i.e. 2 months "& more" H.

George Gage ofthe same, gent

Francis Eyreman of the same, gent

John Barton ofthe same , gent

William Goodacres of the same , gent

Francis Eyreman ofthe same, gent.<

Margery, his wife .

John Barton of the same , gent.4

Ann , his wife

Ann Goodacres of London, "spinster, "

alias Ann Goodacres, wife of William Goodacres of the parish and ward aforesaid, gent

AgnesHolmesofLondon, "spinster, "

alias Agnes Holmes, wife of [ ]5 Holmes of the parish of Christ Church in the ward of Farringdon

John Noble of the parish of St. Mary Wollnothe [Woolnoth] in the ward ofWalbroke , London , gent

£40 for thelike

Within London, "ParisheClarke" .[ ] ,,,

Nicholas Fysher of the parish of St. Olave in Hartestreet, in the ward ofAlgate, London, gent

A: Mary Jerningeham of Harnesey [Hornsey], Midds., "spinster" , alias Mary Jerningeham, wife of [ 15 Jerningham of the same, gent B. D : £60 G. H. E : From 20 Dec., 38 Eliz. [1595] to ult Marchfollowing, i.e. 3 months

M 23 April, 38 Eliz. [1596]

Joan Mouscley of Hillingdon, Midds, "spinster" , alias Joan Mouscley, wife of John Mouscley of the same , "yoman" .[ ] £60 for thelike

A: Henry Duckett of the parish of St. John Zachary in the ward of Aldersgate, London, gent B. D : £100 F : £40

G. H. J : From 1 Nov., 37 Eliz. [1595] to 2 Jan. following,

ROLL2. MICH. 35-36ELIZ. (1593-4) LONDONAND MIDDLX

i.e. 2 months L: £60 M : 16 Jan. , 38 Eliz. [1595/6]

N: Fromdate ofconviction to 9 Aprilfollowing, i.e. 3 [lunar] months O.

"Avisa" Allen of London, "spinster" , alias Avisa Allen, wife of William Allen ofthe parish of St. Botolphin thewardofBillingsgate, London . [ ] £ 100 for the like

Margery Griffyn of the parish of St. Sepulchreinthe ward ofFarringdon Without London , "spinster"

Edith Burrowes of the parish of St. Bridget in thesame ward, widow .[ ]

Constance Foxe ofthe parish ofSt. Olave . [ ] , [ ] 35 " دو intheward ofAldersgate, widow

James WoodcockoftheparishofSt.Olave in "le olde Jury" , London, in the ward ofColmanstreet, London,gent [ ] ,,

John Clarke of the parish of Christ Church in the ward of Farringdon Within London , "yoman" [ ]

A: Simon Skidmore of Fincheley, Midds , "yoman" . "C.

D : £80 G. H. E : From 20 May, 32 Eliz [1590] to ult Sept. following, i.e. 4 months "& more" .

P : But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt],by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 41 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he is quit

A: William Gerrard of Clerkenwell, Midds , gent C. D : £240. G. H. E : From 6 Dec., 32 Eliz. [1589] to 3 Jan., 33 Eliz [1590/91], i.e. 12 months "& more" .

P: But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referredtoin [Recusant] Roll, 5 James I, under"Somers"" , in the farm of Henry, Lord Cobham, farmer of the lands ofthe aforesaid William Gerrard. And he isquit.

A: John Robertson of the Inner Temple, London, gent. C. D £100 F : £60 G. H. J : For 3 months following 20 Aug., 33 Eliz [1591]. L. £40. M : 21 Jan., 34 Eliz. [1591/2]. N : from date of conviction to 18 Marchfollowing i.e. 2 [lunar] months

P : But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 9 James I, under " Res Nott"" ,in anotherdebt ofthesameJohnRobertson . Andheisquit. The ¹Text as C.R.S. ,XVIII, p 143, 1. 14seq to "equales porc* "* entriesunder this heading, to "John Clarke" inclus , are bracketed , L.,with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at]Commissio"). 3The bracketshere & in entries below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word "debet" (owes) Cf. Introd p xcix. "Entries thus repeated in MS: seeabove. "Space left in MS forChristian name. "Sicin MS, for Aldgate

rotulet 12]

[Preamble]

MONMOUTHSHIRE("Monmouth")

[1] Walter Jones, esq., sheriff of this county from Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich., 36 Eliz., renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]]

[Lease ofseized land.

Rental]¹

[2] farm . A: HughCuffe, gent [lessee] C: £9-16-8,beingpart of £75-13-10, the remainder of [an originalrent of] £84-3-10. D.1 One whole tenement, with appurtenances , inLlangattock [nigh Usk], Mon., being a parcel ofthe lands and possessions of ... B.1 : William Lewes, recusant. D.2 : Various other messuages, arable lands, meadows & pastures in Co. Monmouth, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under "Monmouth" . B.2 : Thomas Somers' [Somerset] and others, recusants. H(a): Aforesaid Hugh Cuffe, his executors & assigns. H(b) : FromMichaelmas, 27 Eliz [1585]. H(c) : ... "for the satisfaction of the debt of the aforesaid William Lewes" . H(d) : £9-16-8. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Rolls, 30 & 33 Eliz , under "Monmouth" . F: £9-16-8 from preceding year. G £19-13-4 . [Further arrears] And £49-3-4 for Edward Kemys, esq., sheriffof the year 32 Eliz. , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under "Monmouth" , viz the rent from this same farm for the year 32 Eliz and the arrears, as stated inthat Great Roll Also £9-16-8 forWalterVaughan, sheriffoftheyear 33 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Monmouth" , viz. the rent from this same farm for the year 33 Eliz. , as stated in that Great Roll. [Total debt] £78-13-4. J : For which the sheriffanswers below.2 [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ...

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³

[3] farm . A: Hugh Williams[lessee] C: £ 10-5-10 & farthing. D.1 : Two-thirds of lands & tenements ofthe yearlyvalue of £1 . B.1 William Wrothe, lately of Aburgavennye [Abergavenny], Mon., "yoman" , recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of lands& tenementsin Llanlowell, Mon., ofthe yearly value of£2 B.2 James Thomas Reynold, recusant. D.3 : Two-thirds of lands & tenementsof the yearly value of £2 B.3 : Alice Hewe ofScurfrithe [Skenfrith], Mon., recusant D.4 : Various other lands & tenements in Co. Monmouth, specified in the Great [Pipe]Roll, 31 Eliz , under "Item Monmouth" B.4 : Various other recusants[unnamed]. H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Williams, his executors& assigns. H(b) : From 6 July, 32 Eliz [1590], H(c). H(d): as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great Rolls 31 Eliz., under "Item Monmouth" , and 33 Eliz , under "Monmouth" . F : £10-5-10 & farthing, from preceding year. G : £20-11-9 . [Furtherarrears] And £10-5-10 & farthing for Walter Vaughan, esq., sheriff of the year 33 Eliz , cf. Great

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) MON

[Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Monmouth" , viz the rent from this same farmfor the year 33 Eliz., as stated inthat Great Roll [Total debt] £30-17-7 & farthing

J : [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[4] A The same sheriff, viz. Walter Jones, esq.

B : [2] £78-13-4 (Cuffe). [3] £30-17-7 & farthing (Williams).

C : £109-10-11 & farthing

D : [3] Hugh Williams answers for 13s 6d . of his debt in the following [Recusant] Roll, under "Monmouth" , after his farm . And the same Williams answers for £1-8s of his debt in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under "Monmouth" , after hisfarm .

E : And he [sheriff] owes £107-9-5 & farthing. And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under"Monmouth" .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]5

[5] A Roger Morgan, lately of Tredenock [Tredunnock], Mon., gent B. D: £140 F : £120 G. H. J: For 6 months following 13 Sept. , 37 Eliz [1595] L : £20 M : Friday, 12 March, 38 Eliz [1595/6]. N : From date of conviction to 9 April following, i.e. 1 [lunar] month O.

John Parryof Llanvihangell Pountmoell [Llanvihangel Pontymoil ], "yoman" [ ]6£140 forthelike.

Cicilia Jevan , lately of the same ,

Elizabeth John , lately of the same ,

Eleanor Morgan, lately of Tredenock "spinster" , wife of Roger Morgan, gent [ ] 35 "spinster" "spinster"

Mary Powell, lately of Raglan, "spinster" "Maudea" Adam, lately of the same , "spinster" ,wife ofJohn Adam . "Maudea" Thomas , lately of the same , "spinster" , wife of Jevan Thomas David

Margaret Gruffithe, lately ofthe same, widow

Katherine Griffithe, lately of the same , "spinster" ,wife of James Watkyn [ ]

Joan Griffithe, lately of the same , "spinster"

Ann Tailor, latelyofthe same , "spinster" , wifeofHowellTaylor

Elizabeth Gyles, lately of Llangebye, [Llangibby], "spinster" , wife of Walter Gyles . . owes £140forthelike

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 12 James I, in the farm of the tenants of the lands & tenements of the same

Elizabeth And she is quit

Mary Powell , lately of the same , "spinster"

Grace Watkyns, lately of the same , "spinster"

JaneGyles, latelyofthe same, "spinster"

"Maudea" Kemys, lately of the same , "spinster"

"Didvilla" Thomas , lately of the same, "spinster"

Sibyl Thomas , lately of the same , "spinster"

Jane William, lately of Llanhenock [Llanhennock], "spinster" , wife of DavidWilliam

"Maudea" Davyes, lately of the same ,

"spinster"

Katherine Water, lately of the same ,

"spinster" , wife of Edward William Jenkyn

"Gwenlliana" John, lately of the same , "spinster"

Margaret John, lately of Llanvihangell juxta Lanternam [Llanvihangel Llantarnam], "spinster" , wife of Roger Jevan David

Katherine John, lately of the same , "spinster" , wife of Rice ("Ricei") ap John

Ellen Gruff,latelyofthe same , "spinster"

Elizabeth Philippe, 8 lately of the same ,

"spinster" [ ]

Katherine Thomas , lately of the same , "spinster [ ]

Elizabeth Howell , lately of the same , "spinster" [ ]

Matilda Howell , lately of the same , "spinster"

"Gresilla" Jones , lately of Nova [Shirenewton], "spinster" , wife of Henry Jones Villa

Jane Williams , lately of the same , "spinster"

"Alsona" Watkyn, lately of Llandenny, [ ] £ 140 forthe like "spinster" ,wife ofWilliamWatkyn [ ] „

JoanJohn, latelyofthe same , "spinster" , wifeof John Thomas, "merchaunt" [ ] " ,

Ann Morris, lately of the same , "spinster",wife ofDavidMorris [ ] »

Margaret John, lately of the same, "spinster"

Katherine David , lately of Uske, "spinster" , wife of Walter David apJohn

Margaret Waters, lately of the same , "spinster"

Elizabeth Richard, latelyofLlanvihangell Pontmoell, widow

Blanche Edward, lately of Gwernesni [Gwernesney], widow

Elizabeth Howell, lately of the same , "spinster"

Mary Howell, lately of Carlyon [Caerleon], "spinster" , wife of William Howell

Katherine Thomas , lately of the same, "spinster" , wife ofRoger Thomas

Lettice Thomas, lately of the same , "spinster"

Katherine Coxe, lately of Llantilio Gressennye [Crossenny], widow [ ]] "Jenetta" Watkyns, lately of the same, "spinster" , wife of Thomas Watkyns, gent

Mary Thomas , lately of the same , "spinster"

Jane Jenkyns, lately of Bringwyn [Bryngwyn], "spinster"

Katherine Lewis, lately of the same , "spinster"

Katherine Thomas , lately of Skenfrithe, "spinster" , wife of Philip William

Thomas

Alice David, lately of the same, "spinster"

Katherine Hughes , lately of Llangattock [Vibon Avel], "spinster"

Elizabeth Philippe,8 lately of the same ,

Joan John, lately ofthe same, "spinster" ( ] £140 for the like

Katherine Herbert, lately of the same , "spinster"

Katherine Morgan , lately of Llantilio

Pertholey, widow

Joan Morgan, lately of the same , "spinster"

Elizabeth Morgan, lately of the same, "spinster"

Joan Morgan , lately of the same , "spinster"

"Jenetta" Harry, lately of the same, "spinster" , wife ofDavid Harry

'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 212 , 1. 36 seq. 2Cf entry [4]. 3Text as op. cit , p 213, 1. 11 seq. "Note in L. Margin : It is answered ("respondet]ur"). The sheriff (Jones) was therefore discharged of this amount. 5All the items under this heading are bracketed , L., withthe note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). "The brackets here and in entries belowindicate a space leftin MS for the laterinsertion (when required) ofthe word "debet" (owes) Cf. Introd p. xcix A later insertion See precedingnote. 8"Phe" (with contraction mark) in MS

[rotulet 13]

[Preamble]

NORFOLK

("Norff"")

[1] "Bassingburnus" Gawdye, esq , sheriff of this country from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., to Mich., 36 Eliz , renders .. . [etc. as Berkshire, [1]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Barnard Guilpin, gent [lessee ] C : £33-6-8 . D : The whole manor of Birchehamwell [Beachamwell], otherwisecalled "Wellhall" , "graces" , "Joyseys" & "Asshwell" , with appurtenances, in Bircheamwell, Norfolk ; being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Robert Lovell. H(a) : Aforesaid Barnard Guylpyn, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From Ladyday, 26 Eliz [1584]. H(c): "for the satisfaction ofthe debt of the aforesaid Robert Lovell" . H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under "Norff"" . F : £33-6-8 from precedingyear. G : £66-13-4

J: On 3 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £16-13-4 was paid from this farm into the Treasury, under the names of the executors of Barnard Gilpin. And on 7 Nov., 35 Eliz. [1593], £16-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above] . under the names of the executorsof

100 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) NORFOLK

Barnard Guilpyn. And on 29 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £16-13-4 was paid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 24 Oct. , 36 Eliz [1594], £16-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Guilpin] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]²

[3] farm . A Tenants. D : Two-thirds ofthe site ofthemanor of Wellhall, in Birchamwell [Beachamwell], and of other lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Birchamwell and Singham [Shingham], Norfolk C : £86-8-10 & farthing B : Robert Lovell, esq., recusant, who is indebted totheQueen in the sum of£1,480, by virtue of a certain Act³ oftheParliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Norff"" . F : £345-15-6 from previous years G : £432-4-51& farthing

J: [L. Margin] Not to be written, untiletc.

[Seized land . Rental]5

[4] farm . A : Tenants. D : Two-thirdsofthe manor ofPeverelles & Haggins, & others("et al'") C: £99-0-6 & farthing, being the remainder of [an original rent of] £111-15-6 & farthing B : Robert Downes , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,480, by virtue of the aforesaid Act.6 E(d): asin entry [3].

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent] nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, for a reason referred to in the farm of the same tenants in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Norff"" . " And they are quit

[Seized land Rental]8

[5] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one messuage & of certain lands, tenements & hereditaments in Hilbroughe [Hilborough], Norfolk C : £1-6-8. B : Thomas Welles, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80 , by virtue of the aforesaid Act . E(d) : as in entry [3]. F: £1-6-8from precedingyear G : £2-13-4.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for£2, the rent for thisyear &thelastpartofthe precedingyear, noroughtthesaid rent to be charged after Ladyday, 35 Eliz [1593], because Thomas Forster, esq., answers for £2-16s. per ann., the rent of the same premises together with other property,from the said Ladyday, 35 Eliz., and thereafter is answerableto the Queen by another commission , as is stated on the dorse ofthis present. rotulet. And they [tenants] owe 13s. 4d. [Further postscripts] For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the presentrotulet. 10 [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless ....

[Seized land. Rental]11

[6] farm .

A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one tenement & of certain lands, tenements & hereditaments pertaining to the same in Longa Stratton [Long Stratton], Norfolk C : 9s 4d. B : Edmund12 Townesend , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtueofthe aforesaid Act E(d): as in entry[3] F : 9s 4d from precedingyear G : 18s 8d.

J But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for 14s., the rent for this year & the last part of theprecedingyear. nor ought the said rent to be charged after Ladyday, 35 Eliz. [1593]for the reasonstated immediately above in thefarm of the tenantsof two-thirds oftheproperty ofThomas Welles. And theyowe4s.8d . [Furtherpostscripts as under entry [5]].

[Seized land Rental]13

[7] farm . A : Tenants D: Two-thirds of one tenement & of certain lands & tenements [unspecified], with apps. , in the countyofNorfolk C : £1 B : Edward Jackeson, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue of the aforesaid Act E(d) : as in entry [3] F : £3 from previous years G : £4. J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £1-10s , the rent for this year & the last part of the preceding year, nor ought the said rent to be charged after Ladyday, 35 Eliz. [1593], for the reason stated above in the farm of the tenants oftwothirds of the property ofThomas Welles [entry[5]]. And they owe £2-10s [Furtherpostscripts as under entry[5]].

[Seized land. Rental]14

[8] farm. A : Tenants D : Two-thirdsof a certain annual rent of £10 , reserved from the manors of Franchams & Barres in Holmedale, and from the manor of Vicles in Northepikenham [North Pickenham], Norfolk C : £6-13-4, being the rent of two-thirds of the said manors B : Elizabeth Bedingfeild, widow , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue of the aforesaid Act E(d) : as in entry [3]. F : £6-13-4from precedingyear G : £13-6-8 . J: On 14 Nov., 35Eliz [1593], £6-13-4 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury And on 6 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £6-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And they[tenants] arequit

[Seized land. Rental]15

[9] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one tenement & of certain lands in West Derham [Dereham], Norfolk C : £2 B : Ralph Barney, gent., recusant, who is indebted totheQueen in the sum of £80, by virtue of the aforesaid Act . E(d): as in entry [3] F £6 from previous years G : £8 .

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NORFOLK

J: For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the present rotulet10

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged unless, ...

[Lease of seized land Rental]16

[10]farm . A Humphrey Sackford, esq [lessee] C : £63-6-9 & farthing D : Two-thirds of the manor of Bigottes, with appurtenances, in Westoftes [West Tofts], Norfolk, and ofthe various other manors, messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under "Item Norff " . B : Henry Carvile, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Humphrey Sackford, & his assigns H(b) : From 29 March, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c) : H(d): £63-6-9 & 1 farthing [sic]. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry [3], E(d) F: £63-6-91& farthingfrom precedingyear G: £126-13-7 & farthing J: [Postscripts as under entry[9]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]17

[11]farm. A William Cordell [lessee] C : £75-2-10 . D: Two-thirds of 18 acres of land lying in Marten [Merton], Norfolk, and of the various other messuages, mills, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Item Norff"" . B : Robert de Grey of Marten aforesaid, esq., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid William Cordell, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 20 Oct., 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) as in entry [3], E(d). F : £150-5-9 for HenryDoyly, esq., sheriffofthe year 32 Eliz , cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Item Norff"" viz. the rent of this farm for the year 32 Eliz., & the arrears; cf. the same Great Roll, under "Norff"" And £150-5-9 from previousyears. G : £375-14-4 . J : [Postscripts as under entry[9]]. : , [Lease of seized land

Rental]18

[12]farm. A : GeorgeLee [lessee] C : £56-4-5& two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of the site of the manor of Marten [Merton], Norfolk, and of the various lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in Martyn [Merton] & Thomson [Thompson], Norfolk, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Res' Norff"" . B : Robert de Grey ofMarten aforesaid, esq., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid George Lee , his executors & assigns H(b) : From 20 Oct., 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) as in entry [3], E(d). F £112-8-10 for Henry Doyly, esq., sheriff of the year 32 Eliz., cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under "Item Norff'" , viz the rent of this farm for the year 32 Eliz., & the arrears ; cf. the same Great Roll, under " Norff"" . G: :

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NORFOLK 103

£168-13-4. [Further arrears] £112-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d . from previous years. [Total debt] £281-2-2 & two-thirdsof1d J: [Postscripts as under entry[9]].

[Lease ofseized land. Rental].

[13]farm. A Richard Weston [lessee]. C : £36-4-51 & 1 farthing, being part [of an original rent] of £43-15-21 & farthing. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Quiddenham [Quidenham], & of other lands in Banham, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz. , under " Res' Norff'" . B : Humphrey Bedingfeild, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Weston, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 29 May, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c) H(d) : £36-4-51 & farthing. H(e) H(f). H(k) as in entry [3], E(d), and as in preceding[Recusant] Roll], under " Norff"" 19

J: [Postscripts as under entry[9]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[14]farm . A Richard Weston [lessee] C : £7-10-8, being the remainder of [an original rent of] £43-15-21 & farthing . 20 D : Two-thirds of 6 tenements, with appurtenances, in Lynne, Norfolk, and of the various other lands & tenements, with apps., in Norfolk, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under " Res' Norff"" B : Francis Kynnebye, "yoman" , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Weston, his executors& assigns. H(b): From29 May, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c). H(d) : £7-10-8. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry [3], E(d)

J : [Postscripts as under entry[9]]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]21

[15]farm . A: John Coleman & Peter White [lessees] C : £111-8-9 . D: Two-thirds of the manor of Peverelles & Haggins, and of the various other manors, messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps. , in Norfolk, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Res' Norff”” B: Robert Downes, esq. , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Coleman & Peter White, their executors & assigns. H(b) : From 3 March, 32 Eliz. [1589/90]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry[3], E(d) : J: On 2 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £49-10-4 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on 7 Nov.. 36Eliz [1594], £49-10-4 was paid ... [etc. as above] And they [Coleman & White] ought not to be summoned for £12-8-1 , by considerationofthe Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 31 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And they are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]22

[16] farm. A Rice ("Riceus") Maunsell, gent [lessee]. C : £20.

D : Two-thirds of one messuage or tenement & 85 acres of arable & pasture land in Tilney, and of one messuage or tenement & 54acres ofarable & pastureland inIslington,Norfolk; together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Islingtonaforesaid, specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Norff"" . B: George Willoughby, esq., recusant. H(b) : From 10 Sept. , 33 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Norff"" . F: £50 from previous years. G : £70.

J But he [Maunsell] ought not to be summoned for £30 (the rent ofthe aforesaidfarmfrom Ladyday, 33 Eliz, to Michaelmas , 34 Eliz., viz.for 1 year) because answer has been madeto the Queen for the said £30 ; viz for £10 by Henry Doyley, esq , sheriff of the year 32 Eliz., under the name of the tenants of two-thirds of the said property, by tally allowed to the same sheriff [& recorded] after his "Total"23 in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under" Item Norff"" ; andfor theremaining£20, by a separate tally allowed [& recorded] in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Norff"" , in the farm of the tenants of two-thirds ofthe saidproperty. And on 4 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £10 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury And on 17 Nov., 36 Eliz [1593], £10 was paid . . . [etc. as above]. And he [Maunsell] owes £20.

[Further postscripts as under entry[9]]

[rotulet 13 , dorse]

[Lease ofseized land Rental]24

[17]farm . A William Huckerbye, gent [lessee]. C :

£8

D : The fixed rents of free-holders & copyholders, and the profitsofthecourt& leet25ofthemanor ofMarten [Merton],with appurtenances; also the rent of a wood called "the Nobbe" , together with the various other lands & tenementsin Marten aforesaid, Watton, Thompson, Ellingham , Depenham [Deopham] & Attleboroughe , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Norff"" , being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : Robert de Grey, esq , recusant H(b) : From 22 Dec., 33 Eliz [1590]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [16]. F : £20 from previous years.

G : £28.

J: For whichthe sheriffanswers below26 [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedunless ...

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[18]farm . A William Cobb & John Dover [lessees ]. C : £10

D: The manor of Morleys, withallapps ,inNorfolk; together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements , with

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NORFOLK 105 apps., in the said countyspecified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Norff'" 27 beinga parcel ofthe lands& tenements of ... B : Edward Yelverton, lately of Grimston , Norfolk, gent., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Cobb & John Dover , their executors & assigns H(b) From 2 March, 33 Eliz. [1590/91]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under" Norff "

J: On 26 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £5 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 16 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he is quit . 28

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]29

[19]farm . A Rice ("Riceus") Mansell, gent. [lessee] C : £2

D: The manor of Easthall, with apps, in Denver , Norfolk, inthe tenure ofEdmund Gawsell or his assigns, beingtwo-thirds ofthe lands & possessions of George Willoughby, in Norfolk

B : George Willoughbye, esq., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Rice Mancell [sic], his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 25 Nov., 34 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry[18]. F : £4 from previous years. G : £6.

J: [Postscripts as under entry [17]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[20]farm . A John Shelton, esq [lessee] C: £5 D : The whole of a piece of land estimated to contain about 10 acres (viz partofa piececalled"Banham Haugh",Norfolk), together with the various other lands & tenements, with apps., in Norfolk, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Norff" , 30 being a parcel of the lands & possessions of .

B : Humphrey Bedingfeild, esq., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Shelton, his executors & assigns. H(b) From 26 Feb., 35 Eliz. [1592/3]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry [18]

J: On 18 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £2-10s. was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury On26 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £2 10s was paid ... [etc. as above]. And they are quit . 31

[Arrearage of rent]

[21] A Tenants D : Two-thirds ofthe manor of Biggottes, with apps. , in Westoftes [West Tofts] & elsewhere in Norfolk.

B: Henry Kervile, recusant. F : £31-13-1 & farthing, viz. the rent [of this property] from 18 Oct., 30 Eliz [1588] (on which day the premises were taken and seized into the Queen's hands) to Ladyday next following, 31 Eliz. [1589] ; asis contained in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under "Adhuc Item Norff'"32 where [it is recorded that] the aforesaid rentis demanded under the name of Sir Nicholas Bacon, knt , & of other farmers of the same premises

J: [Postscripts as under entry[17]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[22]farm . A Tenants. B : Alice Barney of Watton, widow, who is indebted to the Queenin various sums ofmoney("divers' denar summis") by reason of her recusancy C : £99-6-8 D: Two-thirds of the manor of Castonhall [Caston Hall] and Burreyes, with appurtenances; of one tenement called "Porters" , and of other lands, tenements & hereditamentsin Caston , Rockland [? Rockland St. Mary] and other nearby villages, of the yearly value of £106 ; also two-thirds of the site of the manor of Caston Hall, lying in Westofts [West Tofts], of one barn(" horr'"), of certain arable, meadow & pasture lands, of a certain sheep-pasture ("pastur' ovilis") & freedom offaldage ("libertat' faldag"") in Westofts aforesaid and in othernearby villages, of the yearly value of £30 : also two-thirds of the manor of Caston Hall [lying] in Westoftes & Shipdam & of other woods & lands there, of the yearly value of £13 E(a) : "Bassingbornus" Gawdye, esq , & others. E(b) : 16 Jan. , 35 Eliz. [1592/3] E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll,L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F : £99-6-8 from precedingyear G : £198-13-4. J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the saidrent to be charged henceforth , by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they are quit.

*[Seized land Rental]

[23]farm. A Tenants B : John Constable, latelyof Martham , gent , recusant C : £5-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one messuage &40acres ofarable & pastureland in Martham, Rolesbye [Rollesby], Eastwick and Repps , in the tenure of Christopher Gamble. E(a) : William Blenerhasset , esq , & others. E(b) : 25 April, 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet ([ ] F : £2-13-4from preceding year G : £8.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[24]farm. A Tenants B : William Taylor, latelyof Ormesby, "yoman" , recusant C : £1-13-4. D : Two-thirdsof5 acres & 1 rood of arable & pasture land in Ormesby aforesaid,inthe separate tenuresofWilliam Love & William Taylor; and of 3 acres & 1 rood of land in Ormesby St. Margaret , in the tenure of Edmund Goose; also of 4 acres of land in Hembesby [Hemsby], in the tenure of the aforesaid William Taylor. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[23] F : 16s 8d. from preceding year G: £2-10s.

J: [Postscripts as under entry [17]]

*[Seized land Rental]

107

[25]farm . A Tenants B : Frances St. John, widow , recusant C : £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a certain lease of the park ("parci") called "Hockeringe Parke" in Hockeringe ; and of other lands & tenements there ; also of a sheepwalk with faldage there, called "Murfeeld" ("curs' unius faldag' voc' Murfeeld ibidem") E(a) : Sir Arthur Heveningham, knt. & others E(b) 10 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Michaelmas term , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ].

J: [Postscripts as under entry[17]]

[Arrearage ofrent]

[26] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manor of Marten [Merton], and other property("et al") B : Robert de Grey. F: £125-16-2 & farthingfor Henry Doyly, esq., sheriff of the year 32 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under " Item Norff " , viz. concerning a certain rent of £118-9-6 & farthing, being the remainder of[an original] rentof£125-16-2 & farthingfor the said property), due at Michaelmas, 33 Eliz. [1590] ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under " Norff"" . J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], because William Cordell and George Lee answer separately, in twoparticulars,forthe samefarmfrom20 Oct., 31 Eliz. [1589],and thereafter they [Cordell & Lee] have been answerable to the Queen by another commission , as is contained in another part ofthisrotulet . 33 Andthey[tenants] arequit

[Arrearage of rent]

[27]A Tenants D : The fixed rents34 offree-holders & copyholders, and the profits of the court and leet of the manor of Marten [Merton], with its appurtenances, also of a wood called "the Nobbe" , and other property ("et al'") ; [being a parcel] of the lands & tenementsof ... B : Robert de Grey of Marten, esq., recusant. F : £16 for the same sheriff35 (cf. Great [Pipe]Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Item Norff"" , viz. concerning a certain annual rent of£8, being the rentfor2 years ending at Michaelmas , 33 Eliz [1590] ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under " Norff"" , J: And they [tenants] answer in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under "Norff"" .

†[Lease ofseized land Rental]

[28]farm. A: ThomasForster [lessee] C: £2-16s. D.1: Two-thirds of one tenement & of certain lands & hereditamentspertaining toit in Longa Streatton [Long Stratton], Norfolk, latelyinthe tenure ofJames Hastinges of Gissinge, Norfolk, or his assigns B.1 : Edmund Townesend , lately of Longestraton Norfolk,

108 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NORFOLK

gent., recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of one messuage & of certain lands, tenements & hereditaments pertaining to it in Hilbroughe [Hilborough], Norfolk, latelyin the occupation of John Welles of Cressingham Magna [Great Cressingham], Norfolk, or his assigns B.2 : Thomas Welles, latelyof Holmehall [Holme Hale], Norfolk, "yoman" , recusant. D.3 : Two-thirds of one tenement, with apps , in Eccles, Norfolk, & of2 acres of arable & pasture land. B.3 : Edward Jackson , latelyof Eccles aforesaid, clerk ("clericus"), recusant E(b): 18 Oct., 30 Eliz [1588]. E(a) : Sir William Heydon, knt. & others H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Forster, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Ladyday, 35 Eliz [1593]. H(c) H(d) 9s 4d. (for Townesend's property) ; £1-6-8 (for Welles' property) ; £1 (for Jackson'sproperty) H(e) H(k) : cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 35 Eliz., under " Norff"

F : £1-8s from precedingyear G : £4-4s J: On 8 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £1-8s was paid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 26 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £1-8s . was paid ... [etc. as above] And on 12 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £1-8s. was paid [etc. as above] And he [Forster] is quit.

[Lease ofseized land Rental] [29]farm . A Thomas Palgrave, gent. , & John Murfyne[lessees]. C : £20, being part [of an original rent] of £32-2-21 & 1 farthing. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Brandon Parva , with apps., in Brandon Parva aforesaid, together withvarious other lands, tenements & hereditaments there. B : John Yaxley recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas & John H(b) : From 2 Dec., 32 Eliz [1589]. H(c) H(d): as C. H(e). H(k): Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Norff'" F : £80 from previous years G : £100

J: On 4 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £9-19-8 was paidfrom thisfarm intothe Treasury, underthenames ofthetenants. And on 1 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £9-19-8 was paid . . [etc.] into the Treasury. And on 17 Nov. , 36 Eliz [1593], £9-19-8 was paid ... [etc.] 66 " 36 under the names of the tenants And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £10 was paid . . . [etc.].. . into the Treasury. And they [Palgrave & Murfyne] ought not to be summoned for £59-18s. , because answer has been made to the Queen for the said £59-18s. by the tenants of the above property (cf. the Great [Pipe] Rolls , 31 , 32 & 33 Eliz , under" Norff""), by several tallies allowed to the same tenants in their saidfarm. And they [Palgrave & Murfyne] owe3s .

[Record of annual fine paid]

[30]A Ferdinand Parris, esq C. D : £260 . H. E : From 10 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] to 9 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. for 13 [lunar] months K. G.

NORFOLK 109 ROLL 2. MICH . 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

P : On 11 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £120 was paid into theTreasury. And heisquit.

[31] A

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

The same sheriff, viz "Bassingburnus" Gawdye, esq.

B [5] 13s 4d (Welles' tenants) : [6] 4s 8d (Townesend's tenants) ; [7] £2-10s (Jackson's tenants) ; [9] £8 (Barney's tenants) ; [10] £126–13-7 & farthing (Sackford) ; [11] £375-14-4 (Cordell) ; [12] £281-2-2 & two-thirdsof 1d (Lee); [13]£36-4-51 & farthing(Weston); [14] £7-10-8 (Weston) ; [16] £20 (Maunsell) ; [17] £28 (Huckerby) ; [19] £6 (Maunsell) ; [21] £31-13-1 & farthing (Kervile's tenants) ; [24] £2-10s. (Taylor's tenants) ; [25] £13-6-8 (St. John's tenants).

C : Total £940-3-1

D : [7] Jackson's tenants answer for their debt of £2-10s. in the following [Recusant] Roll, under "Norff'" 37

[5] Welles' tenantsanswer for their debt of 13s. 4d. in the same roll(loc cit.)37

[11]& [12] On 7 Nov., 37 Eliz [1595], £59-4-9 was paid into the Treasury, under the names of William Cordell & George Lee.

[13] On 6 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £18-2-2 was paid into the Treasury, of the debt of £36-4-5 & farthing, under the name of Richard Weston.

[17] On 7 Nov., 36Eliz. [1594], £4, ofthedebt of£28 , waspaid intotheTreasury, underthe name of WilliamHuckerby

And he [sheriff] owes £855-12-10 And he answers under " Res' Norff'"[below].

[rotulet 6, dorse]

(" Res' Norff'")

[Statement of sheriff's arrears : continued]

The same sheriff , viz "Bassingburnus" Gawdye, esq., owes £855-12-10, the remainder of a debt of £940-3-1, being the sum of his debts for recusants , as specified on the principal rotulet . 38 :

D : [9] Barney's tenants answer for £8 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under" Norff"" , after theirfarm . 37

[10] Sackford answers for £126-13-7 & farthing insame roll (loc cit.), afterhisfarm . 37

[16] Maunsell answers for £20 in same roll (loc. cit.), after hisfarm . 37

[17] Huckerby answers for £20 ofhis debt of£28 in same roll (loc cit.), after hisfarm . 37

[19] Maunsell answers for £6 in same roll (loc cit), after hisfarm . 37

[21] Kervile's tenantsanswer for £31-13-11 & farthing in same roll(loc cit).37

110 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NORFOLK

[24]Taylor's tenants answer for £2-10s in same roll (loc cit.), after their farm.337

E : And he [sheriff] owes £640-16-1 . Andhe answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under "Norff"" .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]39

[32] A John Hawes, lately of Weareham [Wereham], Norfolk, "yoman" B. D: £300 F : £240 G. H. J: For 12 months following 20 Feb., 37 Eliz [1594/5]. L : £60 M : Monday, 12 July, 38 Eliz [1596] N : From date ofconviction to4 Oct., following, i.e. 3 [lunar] months 0:

Alice Steward, lately of Owtewell [Outwell], "spinster"

Katherine Melton, lately of Testerton , [ ]40£300 forthelike "spinster" [ ] دو

" "

Andrew Tompson, lately of the same , "yoman" [ ] " " " " owes " "

John Bettes, lately of Corpusti cum Irmingland, gent [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R. ,40 Eliz,Trinityterm, "Recorda" section rotulet [ ]. And he is quit.

Nicholas Suffild, lately of Brampton, "yoman" owes £300 forthelike [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, I Charles I, under " Norff " , in thefarm of the tenantsofthe lands and tenements of the same Nicholas And he is quit.

John Rowleston, lately of the same , "yoman"

Lawrence Bedingfeild, lately of Holmehale , esq . [ ]40£300 forthelike

" " " [ ]

Ann Foster, lately of Old Buckenham , "spinster" [ ]

Thomas Brooke , lately of Hales Hall, "yoman" [ ]

Hugh Wroothe , lately of Swanton

Novers,"yoman"

John Dykes,latelyofKellinge, "yoman" [ ]

Thomas Middleton , lately of Bicham [? Beachamwell] Sancte "yoman"

Marie, [ ] " "

Henry Lawes, lately ofthe same, "yoman" owes [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referredto in[Recusant] Roll, 1 [ 141, under " Adhuc Res' Norff"" , in another debt of the same Henry And he is quit.

John Powle of Thorpe next Norwich , "yoman"

Thomas Parker, lately of Cranworthe, "yoman"

Stephen Offwood , lately of Banham, "husbondman"

Elizabeth Baker, lately of Eastwalton , "spinster"

BeatriceMoundford, latelyofWeareham [Wereham]"spinster"

Katherine Curson , wife of Thomas Curson, latelyof Byntree [Bintree], gent

Jane Bedingfeild, wife of Lawrence Bedingfeild, latelyofHolmhale, esq.

George Norton, lately of Ellingham, gent

] £300 for the like

Ann Stubbes , wife of Francis Stubbes , lately ofSkottowe [Scottow], gent. . ( )

Richard Attkyns, lately of Owtwell [Outwell], "yoman"

Susanna Grey, lately of Carbrooke , "spinster"

] [ ]

Mary Hampden, wife of Thomas Hampden, latelyofthe same, gent . ( )

Alexander Hamond, lately of Marten [Merton], "yoman"

RalphBarney,latelyofthe same, gent.

FrancisBaxter, latelyofthe same ,gent.

WinifredKervile, wife of HenryKervile, lately of Wiggenhale [Wiggenhall] St. Mary, esq .

Thomas Bromewell, lately of the same , "yoman" .

Robert Tompson, lately of Wolterton, "yoman"

Frances Trott, wife of Matthew Trott, lately of Hockeringe, gent

Cecily Lynne, latelyofNorthtuddenham , "spinster"

JohnWarde, latelyofthe same , "yoman"

Ann Lynne, latelyofthe same, "spinster"

Ann Morris, lately of the same , "spinster"

Robert Coppinge, lately of the same , "blacksmith"

John Wattes , lately of Brandon Parva, "yoman" .

(1593-4)

Bridget Downes , lately of Melton , "spinster" owes £300 forthe like [Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt],for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll,IJames I, under " Adhuc Res' Norff'" , in another debt of the same Bridget And she is quit

Walter Neave, lately of Buckenham St. Martin, "yoman" .

Richard Drake, lately of the same, ""yoman" .

Philip Middleton, lately of Keningale [Kenninghall], "yoman"

Henry Hubbert, lately of Fyncham [Fincham], esq.

Eleanor Ulster , lately of the same , "spinster"

JohnUlster,latelyofthe same , "yoman"

Henry Bedingfeild, lately of Weareham [Wereham], gent

[ ] £ 300 for thelike

[Estreat ofconvictionfor pre-1587 recusancy]42

[33]A Robert Lovell of Bitchamwell [Beachamwell], Norfolk, esq.

C. D: £1,480 F: £1,360 G. H. J : For 68 months ending 24 Oct., 28 Eliz. [1586]. K. L : £120 M : "Before 29 Oct., 28 Eliz " N : "For 6 months ending 15 April last past" [? 1587]. O.

P : But he oughtnot to be summoned forthis [debt]byconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R., 43 Eliz, Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he is quit

'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p. 218, 1. 28 seq. 2Text as op cit , p 219, 1. 1 seq. to " sicut cont' ibid'" . " 3The Act 28 Eliz , cap 6 "Non scri[bendum]quousque etc." in MS 5Text as op cit, p. 219 , 1. 11 seq to " Act' pred' ibid'" "Cf. entry [3],B 7Cf loc cit , 1. 16-21 . I. 33 seq. Cf. entry [28] below 11Text as op cit , p 219, 1. 38 as loc cit.

8Text as op. cit, p 219 , 10Cf . entry [31], D. 12"Edi" in MS : not "Edward" , 15Text as 16Text as 13Text as op cit, p 220, 1. 3 seq to "Act' pred' ibid'" 14Text as op cit , p 220, 1. 22 seq op cit., p 220, 1. 29 seq. to "Act' pred' ibid'" . op cit., p 220, 1. 38 seq. " equales porc' ibid'" " solvend' ibid'" entry [13], C. pore'ibid'" .

17Text as op cit , p 221, 1. 11 seq to 18Text as op. cit., p 221, 1. 29 seq to 19Cf. op. cit., p 222, 1. 5 seq 20Cf. 21Text as op. cit., p 222, 1. 21 seq. to "equales 22Text as op. cit., p 223, 1. 38 seq to "xxxiijcio 23 per tall' allocat' eidem nuper vic' post summam suam" in MS. 24Text as op cit , p 224, 1. 11 seq. to tempore existen'" 25Text of section D begins : "Reddit' assis' tam liber' quam nativor' tenen' & profic' cur' & let' For "Rents of Assize" , cf. Jacob, Law Dictionary 26Cf. in Item Norff'"

28"Quietus 29Cf.

entry [31], D. 27Cf. op cit., p 224, 1. 26 seq. Est"in MS, for"Quieti Sunt" (referringtoCobb& Dover) op cit , p 225, 1. 25 seq. 30Cf op cit , p 226, 1. 22 seq . 31"Quieti Sunt" in MS, for "Quietus Est" (referring to Shelton)

32Text oftheremainderof this passage : "ubi firma predict' exigitur subnomineNicholai Bacon mil et al'firmar' eorundem premissor"" .

33Cf. entries [11] & [12] above . 34Cf. entry [17], and footnote (25) 351.e. Henry Doyly, as in preceding entry 36Cf. op. cit., p 219 seq, and p 230, 1. 40. 37Note in L. margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur"). The sheriff (Gawdy) was therefore discharged of this amount 38Cf. Sheriff's charge, [31], B above. 39The items under this heading, to "Henry Bedingfield " inclus, are bracketed , L.,withthe note: Let acommission be issued("fi[at] Commissio") 40The brackets here & in items below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) oftheword "debet" (owes) Cf.Introd p xcix 41The King's name is omitted in MS It should be "James I" Cf. Recusant Roll, E . 377/12, "Adhuc Res' Norff'" , wherethe reference for Lawes' discharge is given as "MemorandaRoll, L.T.R. , 4 Jac. I, Hilaryterm, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]" 42Cf .Introd,pp. XXX-XXXII

[rotulet 14] [Preamble]

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE("Northt"

")

[1] Tobias Chauncey, esq , sheriffof this countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz, to Mich , 36 Eliz , renders ... [etc. as Berks[ 1]].

[Seized land. Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirdsofthe manor ("manerii") of Great & Little Harrowden , Isham, Clipson [Clipston], Meares Asshebye [Mears Ashby] and elsewhere (" et al""). C : £259-13-32 B : William, Lord Vaux, of Harrowden recusant,whois indebted to the Queen in the sum of£1,4002 by virtue of a certain Act³ of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. under Northt'" . F : £1,817-13-1 from previous years G £2,077-6-51. "

[Lease of seized land. Rental]4

[3] farm . A John Checkley [lessee] C : £3-6-8 D : Twothirds of4 tenements, of 6 virgates of land & ofa windmill,in Arthingworth, Northants B : Humphrey Marriett, recusant H(b) From 12 Feb., 33 Eliz [1590/91]. H(c). H(d) asC. H(e). H(f) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under Northt'" . F: £10 from previous years. G : £13-6-8. 6 J: For which the sheriffanswers below.5 [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedunless, ...

[Lease of seized land Rental]6

[4] farm . A John Newett [lessee] C : £4. D : Two-thirds of a messuage or tenement, with appurtenances, in Ringsted [Ringstead], & ofall tithes of sheaves of grain & hayannually growing & reviving("omniu decim' garb' gran' & feniannuatim crescen' & renovan'") in Ringsted aforesaid B : John Ward, recusant. H(b) : From 7 Feb., 31 Eliz [1588/9]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under " Northt"" F : £20 from previous years. G : £24

[Seized land Rental]

[5] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of one cottage or tenement, withapps , in Ringsted, and of the tithes ofgrain-& hay-sheaves in Ringsted aforesaid C : £4. John Ward , recusant, who is indebted to the Queenin the sum of £260 , by virtue of the aforesaid Act.8 E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Northt'" ; and Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under "Item London" , in a certain dischargemade to John Conyers & others, farmers of the same property; cf. also preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Northt'" . F : £20 from previous years. G : £24

*[Seized land. Rental]

[6] farm . A Tenants. B : Richard Anson of Billinge Magna [Great Billing]. C : 11s. 1d. D : Two-thirds of one virgate & ofone quarter [? -virgate] of land ("unuis virgat' & unius quartron' terr'") in Billinge Magna aforesaid E(b) : 2 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(a) : Sir John Spencer , knt. , & others E(c) Recusancy of the same Richard E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Michaelmasterm, "Recorda' section, rotulet[ ].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[7] farm. A : Tenants. B : Jerome ("Jeronimus") Lowe , gent. C : £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of the wardship of the park ("parci") of Yardley Hastynges. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry[6]. E(c) : Recusancyof the same Jerome.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[8] farm . A: Tenants B : Simon Gutteridge of Yardley Hastynges, "husbandman" , C: 8s. 10 d D : Two-thirds ofone messuage, & of one virgate of land in Yardley Hastinges aforesaid. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry[6].⁹ J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[9] farm. A: Tenants B : Humphrey Marryett of Artyngworthe [Arthingworth], gent C £13-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a certain annuity or rent of £20 per ann , issuing from a

[10]

certain pasture of Edward Gryffyn, esq , called "Oxen Close" , in the parish of Oxenden Magna [Great Oxendon] E(b), (a) and (d) as in entry [6] E(c) : Recusancy of the same Humphrey. :

[Seized goods& chattels]

William Drewrye, of Thrapston, "yoman" , owes 6s 8d. , charged upon himself, for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the same William, by reason of his recusancy: returned ("retornat") by the said commissioners . 10

[Postscript] And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Northt'" .

[Seized goods& chattels]

[11] John Browne ofthe town ("vill"") of Northampton, "yoman" , owes £1-17-4, chargedupon himself, for the price or value of his goods & chattels returned by the said commissioners . 10

[Postscript] And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under" Northt'"

[Seized goods & chattels]

[12] Edward Roydon, lately of Gretton, gent , owes £ 1-10s, for the price or value .. . [etc. as in entry[11], excluding postscript] [Postscripts as under entry [3]]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[13] Robert Pettyver of Brigestocke [Brigstock], "yoman" , owes £3-6-8, for the price or value ... [etc. as in entry[11], including postscript].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[14] Thomas Walker of Geddington, "yoman" , owes £4-3-4, for theprice or value ... [etc. as in entry [11], includingpostscript].

[Seized goods& chattels]

[15] Joan Arden of Evenlye, owes £7 , for the price or value .. . [etc. as in entry [11], including postscript]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[16] Richard AnsonofBillinge Magna [Great Billing], [ ] £13-10s. forthe price orvalue ..[etc. as in entry[11], excluding postscript [Postscript L. Margin] Not to be written again, by warrant of the Chancellor [of the Exchequer].12

[Seized goods & chattels]

[17] Jerome Lowe of Yardley, gent , owes £20, for the price or value ... [etc. as in entry[11], includingpostscript].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[18] Simon Gutterydge of Yardley Hastinges, "husbandman" , owes £9,forthe price or value ... [etc. as in entry[11], excluding postscript].

[Postscripts] For £1-11-2 of which the sheriffanswers below . 13 And he [Gutterydge] owes £7-8-10. And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under" Northt"" . [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged for £1-11-2, unless . . .

[Seized goods & chattels]

[19] Robert Tyton of Irtlingburghe [Irthlingborough], "yoman" , owes £2,for the price or value ... [etc. as in entry[11], including postscript].

[Seized goods& chattels]

[20] Henry Tuke of Harrowden, "yoman" , owes £18 , fortheprice or value ...[etc. as in entry [11], includingpostscript].

[Debtfor pre-1587 recusancy statement (Translation)] 14

[21] Sir Thomas Tressham of Rushton, Northants, knt , owes £600 for Sir George Farmor, knt , late sheriff of the year 31 Eliz. , as is contained in the Great [Pipe] Roll of 31 Eliz , under " Item Northt'" , i.e. the residue of £953-6-8 remaining [of an original debt] of £1,260; because he [Tresham], being above the age of 16 years, did not attend any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer, but absented himselffrom 20 Dec. , 24 Eliz. [1581] to 24 Oct., 28 Eliz . 15 [1586], viz for 63 months, at the rate of 28 days to the month pursuant to a certain Act ofParliament16 enrolled in Memoranda Roll, Q.R., 29 Eliz, Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [177] [This debt to be paid]17 by rendering to the Queen £353-6-8 in theMichaelmas term next following 4 July, 29 Eliz. [1587], and thereafter £300 annually every Michaelmasterm, untilfullsatisfactionshall havebeenmadetotheQueen forthe remaining debtof£953-6-8; forwhich payment Thomas Louis, Lord Mordauntand Edward Watson of Rockingham, esq , are sureties ;18 cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz , under " Item Northt'" . [Postscript] On 25 Feb., 32 Eliz [1589/90], £100 was paid into the Treasury. And on 4 Dec., 33 Eliz [1590], £50 was paid .. [etc. as above]. And on 19 Nov., 36Eliz [1593], £70was paid.. [etc. as above]. And on 22nd Nov., 37 Eliz. [1594], £26-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Tressham] ought not to be summoned for £80, because answer has been made to the Queen for the said £80, asfollows: [1] £53-6-8 thereof by Edward Watson, esq , sheriff of this countyfor the year 34 Eliz , viz : [a] £30 of the said £53-6-8, from the issues of the manors , with appurtenances , of Dreyghton [? Drayton] (of the yearly value of £20), Thrapston(yearly value £5) and Addington (yearly value £5) ; being lands & tenements of Louis, Lord Mordant, seized into the Queen's hands for the aforesaid debt on 2 Sept., 33 Eliz [1591] by Sir John Spencer, knt , late sheriff of this

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

NORTHANTS

county, by virtue of a writ of this Exchequer

£30.

117 totalyearly value

[b]£13-6-8 ofthe said£53-6-8from the issues ofthemanorof Rockyngham , Northants , with apps , being lands & tenements of the aforesaid Edward Watson, esq., similarly seized into the Queen's hands for the same debt, on the same date , by the said late sheriff , Sir John Spencer, knt , of the clear yearly value of £13-6-8

[c] £10 , the remainder of the said £53-6-8 from the issues of a third part of the manor of Rusheton , Northants., with apps , being lands & tenements of the aforesaid Sir Thomas Tressham , knt., likewise seized into the Queen's hands by the said late sheriff, Sir John Spencer, knt , by virtue of a similar writ, on the date & for the debt aforesaid ; ofthe clearyearly value of£10 . [2] £26-13-4, residue ofthe aforesaid £80, by AnthonyMildmay, esq. , sherifffor the year 35 Eliz, from the issues of the same several premises[as above].

This appears in greater detail in the separate ForeignAccounts of the said several sheriffs, preserved in this Exchequer in the custody of the present engrosser.

And he [Tressham] owes £273-6-8. And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Northt"" .

[Record of annual fine paid]

[22] A Sir Thomas Tresham , knt

C. D. £260: H. E : From 25 Oct., 35 Eliz, [1593] to 24 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. 13 [lunar] months K. G.

P : On 13 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £120 was paid into theTreasury. And on 28 Nov., 37 Eliz [1594] £140 was paidinto theTreasury And heis quit.

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[23] A The same sheriff, viz , Tobias Chauncey, esq

B : [3] £13-6-8 [Checkley) ; [8] 8s. 10 d. (Gutteridge's tenants); [12]£1-10s (Roydon); [18] £ 1-11-2 (Gutteridge).

C : £16-16-83.19

D [3] On 4 May, 33 Eliz. [1591], £1-13-4 of Checkley's debt was paid into the Treasury, under the name of John Checkley. And Checkleyanswers inthefollowing [Recusant] Roll, under " Northt'" , for £3-6-8 of the remainder . 20

On 16 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £1-13-4 was paid into the Treasury, under the name of John Checkley. And on 13 Feb., 35 Eliz [1592/3] £1-13-4 was paid .. [etc. as above]

E : And on 4 Nov., 37 Eliz [1595], £8-10-1 was paid [by the sheriff] into the Treasury, to settle the remainder of his

account for recusants . And he has a surplus of d., whichhe remits to the Queen And he [sheriff] isquit.

eorundem"

¹Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 234, 1. 40 seq., to "xxxiijeloin Northt'" Sic, for £1,420 (cf. Beds [2],B) 3The Act 28 Eliz , cap 6 5Cf . "Text as op cit , p 235, 1. 38 seq to " temporeexisten'" entry [23], E. "Text as op. cit , p 236, 1. 32 seq. to "xxxijdo in Northt'" "Text as op cit, p 236, 1. 1 seq. to "firmariis 8Cf . entry [2], 10Cf . entry [6], E(b), (a), (d). " deb'" [owes]

B. E(c) omitted in MS 11Space left in MS for the word 12cNon scri ulterius per warrant' Canc'" in 14Cf . Introd p xxxii, n 161.e., 28 Eliz , cap 6 15MS 17Text

MS. 13Cfentry[23], E. has "24 Eliz " , a clericalerror ofthe remainder of this statement is as follows : "Reddendoinde Regine a quarto die Julii annoxxixno Regine huius videlicettermino Sancti Michaelis tunc proxim' futur' cccliij.l vj.s. viij.d. et sic deinceps annuatim eodem termino Sancti Michaelis ccc./. quosque eidem domineRegine de dictis Dccccliij.l vj.s. viij.d. plenar' fuer' satisfact' per manuc' ThomeLodovici domini Mordaunt & Edwardi Watson de Rockingham in com' predicto ar' sicut cont' in Magno Rotulo de annotricesimoin Item Northt' In thesauro c.l. xxvto die Februarii annoxxxijdo de sol' Etin thesauro 1.1 quarto dieDecembr ' annoxxxiijelode sol' Etin thesauro lxx./ xixmo die Novembr' anno xxxvjtodesol' EtinThesauro xxvj.l. xiij.s.iiij.d. xxijdo dieNovembr' anno xxxvijmo desol' Etnon deb' sum' deiiijxx/ eo quod respons' est domine Regine nunc de dictis iiijxx./. videlicet liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. inde per Edwardum Watson ar' nuper vic' com' pred' de anno xxxiiijtoeiusdem Regine videlicet xxx./ parcell' dicte summeliij./ vj.s. viij.d. de exit' manerii de Dreyghton cum pertin' annui valoris xx.l. Ac maner' de Thrapston annui valoris c.s. Ac maner' de Addington annui valoris c.s. de terr' & tenementis Lodovici domini Mordant In manus Domine Regine nunc pro debito predicto per Johannem Spencer mil' nuper vicecomitemcom' pred' secundo die Septembr' anno regni sui xxxiijcio virtute brevis huius Scaccarii capt'& seisit' inter se ad xxxl per ann' xiij./ vj.s. viij.d.parcell' dicte summe liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. de exit' manerii de Rockynghamcum pertin' in com' predicto de terr' et tenementis predicti Edwardi Watson ar' In manus domine Regine nunc per prefat' Johannem Spencer militem nupervic' die et annopredictispro debito predictosimiliter capt'& seisit' ad xiij.l. vj.s. viij.d. per ann' ultra repris' Etx.l. res' summe liij.l. vj.s. viij.d. predicte de exit' tercie partis manerii de Rushetoncum pertin' in com' pred' de terr' et tenementis predicti Thome Tressham mil' in manus dicte domine Regine nunc virtute consimilis brevis per prefat' Johannem Spencer mil' nupervic' com' pred'die& anno predictispro debitopredictosimiliter capt'&seisit'ad x.l.per ann'ultrarepris' Acxxvj./ xiij.s.iiij.d.res 'predicte summeiiij**/. per Anthonium Mildmay ar' nupervic' com' predicti deannoxxxvto eiusdem Regine de exit' eorundem separalium premissor ' proutin separalibus Compotis Forinc' dictorum nuper separalium vic' in hoc Scaccario in custod' huius Ingrossator' reman' pleniusliquet et apparet Et deb' cclxxiij.l. vj.s. viij.d. Etr' in Rotulo sequen' in Northt'" 18Lit: "by the mainprise (manucaptionem) of Thomas Louis . .. " . The payments listed above show that the termsofthe recognisance were by no means fulfilled. This explains the forfeiture of £80 apportioned among Mordaunt, Watson (the two mainpernors or sureties) & Tressham (the principal party) 19Sic , for £16-16-10 d. 20Note in L. Margin : It is answered ("respondet]ur") The sheriff(Chauncey) was thereforedischarged ofthis amount(£3-6-8).

15]

[Preamble]

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE(" Not'"

)

[1] Sir Francis Willoughbye , knt. , sheriff of this county from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. , to Mich. 36 Eliz , renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[2] farm. A Thomas Cawood [lessee] C : £6-13-4, twothirds of 1d . & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of one capital messuage or tenement, with appurtenances, in Stanford [Stanford upon Soar], Notts , together with thevarious other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Notts., specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Nott'".1 B : Nicholas Reynes, lately of Stanford, Notts. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Cawood, his executors & assigns H(b) :

From 21 April, 33 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d) : £6-13-4 [sic]. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Nott'" F : £16-13-4 from previous years G : £23-6-8 . J: For which the sheriffanswers below.2

[Lease ofseized land. Rental] [3] farm . A Clement Spilman, esq. [lessee], C : £8-10s. D : The whole manor of Broughton , with all its rights, members & apps., in Broughton Solney [Broughton Sulney], Willoughby & Bonney [Bunny], Notts., and the whole manor of Willford [Wilford], Notts , with apps , ; being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Henry Kervile, lately of Toftes [West Tofts], Norfolk, gent. , recusant Spilman, his executors & assigns 34 Eliz [1592] H(c) H(d) : preceding [Recusant] Roll, under from preceding year. G : £17. J: [Postscript as under entry [2]]

[Seized goods & chattels]

H(a) : Aforesaid Clement H(b) : From Michaelmas , as C. H(e). H(k). Cf. " Nott'".3 F : £8-10s

[4] Sir George Chaworth , knt. , & Edward Stanhoppe, esq , owe 13s 4d., whichsumthey havetaken ("quos [denarios]ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of Robert Collyson, recusant : cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Nott"" .

[Postscript as under entry[2]].

[Seized goods& chattels]

[5] The same George & Edward owe £2 for the price of one horse , whichtheyhave taken("quem[equum]ceperunt") ofthegoods& chattels of John Fyssheborne, recusant : cf .. [ref. as in entry [4]].

[Postscript as under entry [2]].

120 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) NOTTS

[Seized goods& chattels]

[6] William Wydmerpoole, esq., & Henry Stanley, gent., owe £3-6-8, whichsumthey have taken ("quos [denarios] ceperunt") ofthe goods& chattels of Nicholas Reynes, recusant : cf. . . [ref as in entry [4]]. [Postscript as under entry[2]]

[Arrearage ofrent]

[7] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of various lands & tenements in Stanford, Notts F : £3-6-8, being the rent due from this property for the half-year ending Ladyday, 33 Eliz. [1591].

B : Nicholas Reynes, recusant E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Nott'".4

J: [Postscript as under entry[2]].

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[8] A The same sheriff, viz. Sir Francis Willoughbye, knt.

B : [2] £23-6-8 (Cawood) ; [3] £17 (Spilman) ; [4] 13s 4d (Chaworth & Stanhope) ; [5] £2 (Chaworth & Stanhope) ; [6] £3-6-8 (Wydmerpoole) ; [7] £3-6-8 (Reynes' tenants).

C : £49-13-4.

D : [3] On 3 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £4-5s was paid into the Treasury under the name of Clement Spylman. And on 6 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £4-5s. was paid ..[etc. as above. And on 20 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £4-5s. was paid .. [etc. as above]. And on 4 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £4-5s was paid .. [etc. asabove]

[2] Cawood answers for £10 of his debt of £23-6-8 in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under Nott " , after his farm.5 "

[4]& [5] Chaworth & Stanhope answer for their twodebtsof 13s 4d. & £2 in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under "Nott'"5

[6] Wydmerpoole answers in same roll (loc cit.) for his debtof£3-6-8.5

[7] Reynes' tenants answer in same roll (loc cit.)for their debt of £3-6-8.5

E : And he [sheriff] owes £13-6-8 . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under" Nott"" .

1Cf . C.R.S. ,XVIII, p . 240 ,1.20seq. 2Cfentry[8], D. Themarginal note"oni" ([Thesheriff] is charged, unless ...) is missingthroughout this Notts account . 4cf. 3Cf . op. cit , p. 242 , 1. 46 seq. "Note in L.margin : "r[espondet]ur" Thesheriff (Willoughby) was thereforedischarged

op. cit., p. 239, 1. 36 seq (it is answered) of this amount .

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

[rotulet 16, dorse]

[Preamble] OXON

OXFORDSHIRE (" Oxon"")

[1] Francis Stonard, esq., sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas. 35 Eliz.,toMich. , 36Eliz , renders ...[etc. as Berkshire[1]]

[Seized land. Rental]¹

[2] farm . A: Tenants D : Two-thirds of 4 cottages , with appurtenances , in Eynesham, Oxon. C : £1-0-8 B : John Daye, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £180, by virtue of a certain Act2 of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Oxon"" F : £2-1-4 from previous years. G : £3-2s

J : For whichthe sheriff answers below.³

[L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless ....

[Seized land Rental]4

[3] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manor of Wolgercote, alias Wolvercote , & of one messuage called "Godstowe" , & of other property ("et al"") in Oxfordshire. C : £65-15-6 , being the remainder [of an original rent] of £159-2-2 . B : Richard Owen, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,580, by virtue of the said Act.5 E(d) as in entry [2] F : And £65-15-6 for Sir Anthony Cope, knt., sheriffof the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Res' Oxon""), being the rent due for the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Oxon""). G : £131-11-1 [Further arrears] £65-15-6 from preceding year. [Total debt] £197-6-7 .

J: On 26 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £32-17-10 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on 15 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £32-17-10 was paid [etc. as above] And on 25 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £32-17-10 was paid ...[etc as above]. And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £32-17-10 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And they [tenants] owe £65-15-4 .

[Lease of seized land Rental]6

[4] farm. A : Thomas Read, esq [lessee] C : £13-14-8.

D: Two-thirds of a parcel of land called "Payges" , estimated to contain 30 acres, in Mapledurham, Oxon ; and two-thirds of the manors of Ippesden [Ipsden] Huntercombe & Ippesden Bassett , Oxon. B : Thomas Vachell, esq., recusant. H(a): Aforesaid Thomas Read, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Ladyday, 31 Eliz. [1589] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Oxon'

[Lease of seized land Rental]7 :

[5] farm . A Edward Streete [lessee] C : 3s 4d , being the

OXON ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

remainder of[an originalrent of £33-10s. D : Two-thirdsof one cottage, with the land pertaining to it, let to farm to a certain Edward Maynard . B : John Daye, gent. , recusant.

H(a) Aforesaid Edward Streete & his assigns H(b) : From 5 July, 31 Eliz [1589]. H(c). H(d) : 3s. 4d. H(e).

H(f). H(k) as in entry [4] F : 13s 4d. from previous years. G 16s 8d . :

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]8

[6] farm . A John Hopkynson [lessee ] C £4, being the remainder of [an original rent of] £10-13-4. D : One close , called "Gollyfers Close" ; two other closes, called "le churchecloses" ; a pasture, called "le breches" ; and all the arable & pasture land in Stanlake, Oxon ; being a parcel of the manor of Gollofers in Stanlake, Oxon. all the above being a parcel ofthe lands& possessions of ... B : Edward Easte ofBledlowe, Bucks , gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Hopkinson, his executors& assigns H(b) : From 3 Nov., 32 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d) £4 H(e). H(f) H(k) : : as in entry [4]. F: £12 from previous years. G : £16 J: For £4 of which the sheriff answers below.⁹ [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged for this year's rent only, unless .... 10

[Lease of seized land

Rental]

[7] farm. A Francis Stonor, esq [lessee ] C : £ 18-4-10 D: The remainder of the manor(" res' maner"") of Stonor alias Purshull [Pishill] & Wamescombe [Warmodescombe] ; also the farms of Hollingridge [Hollandridge ] & Bromesden [Broundesden], Oxon , together with all underwood ; being two-thirds ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Lady Cecily Stonor, widow, recusant H(b) : From 29 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under "Item Oxon'" . F : £36-9-8 from previous years. G : £54-14-6.

J : [Postscripts as under entry [2]].

[Lease of seized land

Rental]12

[8] farm . A Edward Ferrys, usher-in-ordinary of the chamber royal [lessee]. C: £31-5-7. D.1 : Two-thirds of a virgate ofland in Totbalden [Tootbalden], Oxon B.1 : JohnSpencer, senior, "husbandman" , recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of a certain farm in Chesterton Grange 13 B.2 : William Bourne , recusant. D.3 : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements in Brockin, in the parish of Castleton [Chastleton], and of an annual rent of £5 issuing therefrom B.3 : Katherine Onslowe, widow , recusant H(b) : From27July, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c).

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) OXON 123

H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) as in entry [7]. F : £79-8-11 from previous years G : £111-4-6 .

J: But he [Ferrys] ought not to be summoned for £46-13-4 (of the above annualrent of £31-15-7), being the rent due from the above property in Brokin, in the parish of Castleton,from 27 July, 33 Eliz [1591]toMichaelmas in this presentyear, 36 Eliz [1594], viz.for the period of3 years, nor oughtthis sum to be charged henceforthby considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he owes£64-11-2

And he answers belowfor this rent& its arrears in threeseparate particulars . 14

[Seized land. Rental]15

[9] farm. A Tenants B : ThomasHoord ofWeston, Warwickshire, gent., recusant C : £27-14-8. D : Two-thirds ofthe manor of Aston, with appurtenances E(a) : RichardFines , esq , & others E(b) : 22 March, 34 Eliz. [1591/2]. E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Oxon"" . F : £55-9-4 from previous years. G : £83-4s

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]16

[10]farm . A : Noel Sotherton, esq [lessee] C : £3-6-8 . D : The whole manor or farm ofHardwick, Oxon , with allits rights, members& appurtenances; being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : John Bulleyne, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Noel Sotherton, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 6 June, 34 Eliz. [1592]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) as in entry [9], E(d).

J : On 24 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £1-13-4 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And he [Sotherton] owes £1-13-4 . But he ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 37 Eliz., Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ].17

[Lease of seized land. Rental] [11]farm. A: Edward Smythe & Ralph Smythe [lessees ]. C: £2-6-8. D : Two-thirds of one messuage, 2 virgates of land & one cottage, with apps , in Crowmarshe Gifford & Newneham Moren[Newnham Murren], Oxon. (in one or other ofthese parishes), together with the various other messuages , lands & tenements, with apps , in Oxon , specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Oxon'" 18 B : Walter Hillesley, and his mother, Margaret Hillesley of Cromarshe, Oxon, widow, recusants H(a) : Aforesaid Edward Smythe & Ralph Smythe & their assigns H(b) : From Ladyday ,

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) : OXON

35 Eliz. [1593]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry[9], E(d). F : £1-3-4from the last part ofthe preceding year. G : £3-10s.

J: But they[Edward & RalphSmythe] oughtnottobesummoned for this [rent] nor ought the said rent to be chargedhenceforth, because Leonard Wyllmott& John Simondes answer for thisfarm from the said Ladyday, 35 Eliz [1593], and thereafter they [the latter] are answerable to the Queen by another commission ; as is stated below . 19 And they [E. and R. Smythe] are quit

[Seized land Rental] [12]farm . A Tenants B : Walter Hildesley, and Margaret Hildesley, widow , recusant. C: £2-6-8 D : Two-thirds of one messuage, of 2 virgates of land & of one cottage in Crowmarshe Gifford & Newenham Moren ; of one messuage or tenement , with appurtenances , in Howbery; and of other propertyin Oxon. E(a) : Owen ("Owinus") Oglethorpe, esq & others E(b) : 20 May, 34 Eliz. [1592] E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Hilary term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. F : £3-10s from previous years. G : £5-16-8. J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £3-10s. , being the rent for this year & the last part of the precedingyear, nor ought the said rent to be charged after Ladyday, 35 Eliz. [1593], because Leonard Willmott & another answer forthesame farmfrom the saidLadyday, 35 Eliz., & the latterarethenceforth answerable to the Queen by another commission ; as is stated immediately below . 19 And they [tenants] owe £2-6-8 . On 4 Feb., 36 Eliz. [1593/4], they [tenants] deliveredthis sum in theTreasury. And they are quit

†[Lease ofseized land Rental] [13]farm . A Leonard Willmott & John Simondes [lessees]

C : £2-6-8. D.1 : Two-thirds of one messuage, 2 virgates of land& one cottage, with appurtenances, in the villages, fields, parishes or hamlets of Crowmarshe Gifford & Newenham Moren, Oxon. (in one or other of them), in the tenure of Walter Bigges, or his assigns

B.1 : Walter Hilldesley of East Illesley, Berks , recusant

D.2 : Two-thirds of one messuage or tenement, with apps , in Howberie, Oxon. , commonlycalled "The Farm of Howberie" , and of all the arable, meadow & pasture land in Howberie & Cowmarshe Gifford, Oxon , belonging to the same messuage or tenement , of which William Hildesley, father of the said Walter, was possessed for a long time before his death, [the lease ofwhich] wasthen to run for the term ofa further 30 years ("pro termino trigint' annor' adtunc ventur"")

B.2 : Walter Hildesley & hismother,Margaret ,ofCrowmarshe, Oxon. , widow , recusants. E(b) : 20 May, 34 Eliz [1592] E(a) : Owen Oglethorpe, esq.

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) OXON 125 & others. H(a) : Aforesaid Leonard Willmott & John Symondes , their executors & assigns H(b) : From Ladyday, 35 Eliz [1593] H(c) H(d) : 6s 8d. [for the property described in D.1 above] ; £2 [for the propertydescribed in D.2 above] H(e) H(k) : Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 35 Eliz , under " Oxon"" F : £1-3-4from preceding year G £3-10s.

J: On 6 Nov., 35 Eliz. [1593], £1-3-4 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury, under the names of the tenants of the said property. And on 29 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £1-3-4was paid ... [etc. as above]. And they [Willmott & Simondes] arequit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[14]farm. A Richard Ferrys, usher-in-ordinary ofthe chamber royal [lessee]. C: £1-6-8, being part of[an originalrentof] £31-15-7. D : Two-thirds of a virgate of land in Totbalden [Tootbaldon], Oxon B : John Spencer, senior, "husb"" , recusant. H(b) : From27 July, 33 Eliz [1591]. H(c) H(d) : £1-6-8. H(e). H(k) : as stated above 20 F : £3-6-8 from previous years G : £4-13-4.

J : [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease ofseized land Rental]

[15]farm . A Richard Ferrys [etc. as entry [14]] C : £13-6-8, being part of [an original rent of] £31-15-7 . D: Two-thirds of a certain farm in Chesterton Grange. B: William Bourne , recusant H(b), (c), (e) and (k) : as in entry [14]. H(d) : £13-6-8 F : £33-6-8 from previous years. G : £46-13-4.

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Seized land. Rental]

[16]farm . A Richard Ferrys ... [etc. as entry [14]]. C: £3 15-7, being the remainder of [an originalrent of] £31-15-7 .

D : Two-thirds of a certain annual rent of £5-13-4, issuing from certain lands & tenements in Brockin, in the parish of Castleton [Chastleton], Oxon B : Katherine Onslowe , widow , recusant H(b), (c), (e) and (k) : as in entry [14]. H(d) : £3-15-7 . F £9-8-11 from previous years . G : £13-4-6 . J On 5 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], he [Ferrys] deliveredthis sum in theTreasury. And he is quit.

[Statementofsheriff's arrears]

[17] A The same sheriff, viz. Francis Stonard, esq.

B : [2] £3-2s (Daye's tenants) ; [5] 16s 8d (Streete) ; [6] £4 (Hopkinson) ; [7] £54-14-6 (Stonor) ; [9] £83-4s (Hoorde's tenants) ; [14] £4-13-4 (Ferrys-Spencer) ; [15] £46-13-4 (Ferrys-Bourne).

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) OXON

C : £197-3-10 .

D : [6] On 25 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £2 was paid into the Treasury, under the name ofJohn Hopkynson Andon 5 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £2 was paid ... [etc. as above] E And he [sheriff] owes £193-3-10 . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under" Oxon"" .

[rotulet25, dorse] (" Res' Oxon'")

Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]

[18]21A Edward Williams , lately of [the parish of] St. Michael in Oxford . B. D : £80 F : £40 H. J : For 2 months following 20 May, 37 Eliz [1595]. L : £40 M : Monday, 1 March, 38 Eliz [1595/6]. N : From date of convictionto 26 April, 38 Eliz [1596], i.e. for 2 [lunar] months O.

John Fourde, lately of Watlyngton, "yoman"

Phillipa Blott, lately of the same, "spinster"

Ann Curson, lately of Waterpury, [Waterperry], wife of Francis Curson , gent.

[ ]22£80 for thelike.

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23A: John Bourne of Wendlebury, Oxon. , gent. " B. D :

£280. F : £240 G. J: For 12 months following 6 March , 37 Eliz. [1594/5] L, M, N and O : as under Williams

William Beckley of the same "husb" [ ] £280for the like

Elizabeth Eden, wife of John Eden of . Owes دو 99 دو the same , gent [Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt],for the reasonreferred to in thepreceding[Recusant] Roll,under " Oxon'" , in anotherdebt ofthesameElizabeth . 24

Jane Hytche, wife of Thomas Hytche ofthe same , gent.

WilliamSmithe ofthe same, "laborer"

And she is quit

[ ] £280 for the like owes

William BourneofDedington[Deddington], gent . [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summonedfor this [debt], for the reasonreferred to in the preceding[Recusant] Roll, under" Oxon"" , in anotherdebt of thesame William25 [

Alice Mooreof the same , "spinster" [ George Jeninges ofChastleton, "yoman" [

Ann Belson ofAston Rowaunt , widow . [

Cecily Bigge, wife of Walter Bigge of Cromarshe [Crowmarsh Gifford?], "yoman"

"

" " ,, " " " " ] " [ ] " [ ] "

Mary Penne , wife of Edward Penne of Chynnor [Chinnor], gent دو دو "

And he is quit. ] £280forthelike. ]]

John Penne of the same , gent.

Eleanor Penne ofthe same , "spinster"

Elizabeth Horseman, wife of Paul Horseman of Haseley, gent.

Frideswide Newe, wife of Abraham Newe of the same, "tailor"

WilliamBadgerofCowley, "laborer"

Margaret Lee of Stoke Talmage, widow .

Elizabeth Englishe, wife ofJohn Englishe of the same , gent.

Alice Philbie of the parish of Mary Magdalen, Oxon , widow

Mary Clarke, wife of Henry Clarke of Carsington [?Garsington], gent

Ann Barbor, wife ofJohn Barbor of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Oxford

Elizabeth Betterton, wife of John Betterton ofWolvercott, "laborer"

Elizabeth Clarke, wife of Sir William Clarke, knt , of the parish of St. Mary in Oxford

Jane Coxe , wife of Ralph Coxe of Blechington [Bletchington], "yoman"

JoyceBulleyn ofHardewick, widow .

Mary Kytchen, wife of John Kytchen of the same , gent.

Ann Smithe, wife of Robert Smithe of

the same , "yoman"

Alice Aldworth ofCombe

Elizabeth Wyntersall of Chakenden [Checkendon], widow

Jane Owen, wife of George Owen of Shorthampton , gent

Magdalen Denton of Ambresden [Ambrosden], widow

A: Nicholas Rande[? or Raude] of Somerton, "yoman" . B.

D: £240. F : £200. G. J: For 10 months following 4 May, 37 Eliz [1595] L, M, N and O : as under Williams.

Katherine, his wife

Isabel Hall of the same , widow

Ann Vaham, wife of [ ]26 Vaham of Bampton, gent. . [ ] £240 for the like.

The *Text as op. cit. , 'TextasC.R.S.,XVIII, p. 251, 1. 37 seq. to"Regine huius" . Act 28 Eliz., cap 6 3Cf . entry [17],E p 252, 1. 1 seq to " Act' pred'" . 51.e. Act 28 Eliz cap 6 ,

referredtoin entry [2] "Text as op cit., p 252, 1. 8 seq (with variant phrasings) to "tempore existen 'ibid"" . The present text gives, correctly, "Habend' & tenend' firmam pred' prefato Thome Read" . Cf. op. cit. , p 252, 1. 26 seq . 8Cf op cit. , Cf. entry [17],E. 10"De Anno" in MS p 253, 1. 28 seq. iText as op cit , p 254, 1. 4 seq. to " in Item Oxon'" . 12Text 13C.R.S. , as op. cit., p 254, 1. 16 seq to " sicut cont' ibid'" XVIII(loc cit.) has"in Chesterton Parva, called ChestertonGrange" . 14See entries [14], [15] & [16] below 15Text as op. cit. , p 254 , 1. 32 seq to " capt'& seisit'" . 16 Cf. op cit, p. 254, 1. 41 seq 17"Etquietus est" is omitted ; seemingly inerror 18Cf. op. cit ., p. 255, 1. 22 seq 19See entry [13], below 20Cf. entry [8], above 21Theitems Williams to Curson, inclus are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued("fi[at] commissio") 22The brackets here & in items below indicate a space left in MSfor the later insertion (when required) of the word " deb'" (owes) Cf. Introd p . xcix 23The items Bourneto Vaham, inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] commissio") 24Cf . op. cit., p 260, 1. 30. 25Cf . op. cit, 26The brackets indicate a space left in MS for p 260 , 1. 9 Christian name

[rotulet 14, dorse] [Preamble]

[1]

RUTLAND

("Rotlande")

Sir James Harrington, knt , sheriff ofthis county from Michaelmas 35 Eliz , to Mich , 36 Eliz. , renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

C :

[2] farm . A Tenants. B : James Digby, gent, recusant £18-2s D : Two-thirdsof a capital messuage, with appurtenances, in Northluffengham [North Luffenham] ; and of various other messuages,lands & tenements , with appurtenances in Northluffengham aforesaid, Morcotte, Pylton [Pilton], Seaton , Thorpe juxta aquam [Thorpe by Water] & Bysbrooke [Bisbrooke], withapps , in Rutland E(a) : SirAndrew Nowell, knt. & others E(b) : 25 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmasterm, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] J: On 3 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £9-1s was paid from this farm into the Treasury And they [tenants] owe £9-1s . But they ought not to be summoned for this [sum], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, because Robert Millicentt & Thomas Phillippesanswer below forthe same rentfromLadyday, 36 Eliz [1594], and thereafter they [Millicentt & Phillippes] are answerable to the Queen by another commission . And they [tenants]arequit.

[Seized goods & chattels]

[3] Roger Smythe, esq., lately sheriff ofthis county, owes £5-19-4, charged upon himself, for the price or value of the goods and chattelsofthe said James Digby,recusant, deliveredbyindenture to the same sheriff by the aforesaid commissioners²; cf. Memoranda Roll .. [etc. as in entry [2], E(d)].

[Postscript] on 21 Nov., 36 Eliz [1593], he [Smythe] delivered this sum in theTreasury Andheis quit

†[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[4] farm . A: Robert Millicent & Thomas Phillipes, gents [lessees]. C : £9-1s , for Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594], being part [of an annual rent] of £18-2s D³ : Two-thirds (1)ofone capitalmessuage, with apps in Northluffenham , Rutland, & of various arable, meadow, grazing & pasture lands pertaining to the same , lately in the tenure of James Digby, or his assigns ; (2)of another messuage or tenement, with apps., in Northluffenham aforesaid & of various arable, meadow , grazing & pasture lands pertaining to it, lately in the tenure of John Luff, or his assigns ; (3)of another messuage or tenement, with apps ,inNorthluffenham aforesaid& ofvarious arable, meadow grazing & pasture lands pertainingto it, latelyin the tenure of Robert Larratt, orhisassigns ; (4)ofacottageinNorthluffenham aforesaid, latelyin thetenure of Edward Croftes, orhis assigns; (5)ofanother cottage in Northluffenham aforesaid, lately in the tenure ofMargaret Swan, widow, or her assigns ; (6)ofanother cottage in Northluffenham aforesaid, lately in the tenure of Thomas Wells, or his assigns ; (7)of another cottagein Northluffenham aforesaid, lately in the tenure of Henry Fesant, or his assigns ; (8)of another cottage, with apps., in North luffenham aforesaid, lately in the tenure of Roland Swanne , or his assigns ; (9)of another cottage, with apps. , in Northluffenham aforesaid, lately in the tenure of William Andrewe , or his assigns ; alsotwo-thirds (10)ofa messuage, with apps., in Morcott, Rutland, & of various arable, meadow, grazing & pasture lands pertainingto it, latelyin the tenure of HenryBrightmore, or his assigns ;(11)ofanother messuage ortenement, withapps., inMorcott&ofvariousarable, meadow , grazing & pasturelands pertaining to it, lately in the tenure of John Peachie , or his assigns ; (12)ofanother messuage, with apps., in Morcott aforesaid & of various arable, meadow, grazing & pasture lands pertainingto it, lately in the tenure of HenryCooke & Edward Smythe, ortheirassigns ; (13)ofa cottage, with apps , inMorcott aforesaid, latelyin the tenure of John Jenkensonalias Croson , or his assigns ; (14)of another cottage, with apps , in Morcott aforesaid, latelyin the tenure of John Wellam, or his assigns ; (15)ofanother cottage, with apps. , in Morcottaforesaid,latelyin

(1593-4)

the tenureofWilliam Crowdson, or hisassigns ; (16)ofanother cottage, with apps , in Morcott aforesaid, lately in the tenure of Thomas Cam, or his assigns ; (17)of another cottage, with apps., in Morcott, aforesaid, lately in the tenure of Margaret Harryson, widow, or her assigns ; also two-thirds (18)of a messuage or tenement in Pilton, Rutland, & of various arable , meadow, grazing & pasture lands pertaining to it, lately in the tenure ofAlice Cooke, widow, and Roger Cooke , or their assigns ; and (19)of a cottage, with apps., in Pilton aforesaid , lately in the tenure of Isabel Fawknor, widow, or her assigns ; alsotwo-thirds (20)ofa messuage ortenement, withappurtenances in Seaton, Rutland, & of various arable, meadow , grazing& pasture lands in Seaton & Thorpe juxta aquam [Thorpe by Water], Rutland , pertainingto the same messuage, lately in the tenure ofGeorge Cooke or his assigns ; also two-thirds (21)ofa messuageortenementinBisbrooke, Rutland,&ofvarious arable, meadow, grazing & pasture lands pertaining to it, latelyin the tenure of Thomas Phillipps , gent , or his assigns. B : JamesDigby of Luddington [Liddington], Rutland, gent., recusant. E(b) : 25 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593]. E(a) : SirAndrew Noell, knt., & others. H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Millicentt& Thomas Phillipps, their executors & assigns H(b) : From Ladyday, 36 Eliz. [1594] H(c). H(d) : £6-10-10 & twothirds of 1d . for (1)(Digby's capital messuage) ; 17s. 9d. & two-thirdsof d for(2)(Luff's tenement) ; 8s 10d .& two-thirds of1d. for(3)(Larratt'stenement) ; 3s. 4d. for(4)(Crofte's cottage); 1s 4d for (5)(Margaret Swan'scottage) ; 4s for (6)(Wells' cottage); 4s for(7)(Fesant's cottage); 2s 2d &two-thirdsof1d.for (8)(Roland Swanne's cottage) ; 2s. 2d & two-thirdsofld.for (9)(Andrewe's cottage); £1-0-4for(10)(Brightmore's tenement); 19s 4d for(11) (Peachie's tenement); £1-3-2 & two-thirdsof1d for(12)(tenementofCooke& Smythe); 3s.4d for(13)(Jenkinson , alias Croson's cottage) ; 2s 8d. for (14)(Wellam's cottage) ; 4s. for (15)(Crowdson's cottage) ; 4s. for (16)(Cam's cottage); 2s. 8d. for (17)(Harryson's cottage) ; £2-8-10 & two-thirdsofId. for (18)(Alice & Roger Cooke's tenement) ; 4s. 5d . & two-thirds of d. for(19)(Fawknor's cottage) ; £1-12-2 & two-thirdsof1d . for(20)(GeorgeCooke'stenement) ; £1-2-2 & two-thirdsof1d . for (21)(Phillipps' tenement) H(e). H(k): Cf. Roll of the Enrolment ofLeases, 36 Eliz , under"Rutland" . J: On 6 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], he delivered this sum [£9-1s ] in the Treasury. And he is quit*

1Seeentry[4], below of the properties(omitted in the original), in this sectionandunder H(d) below, has been added for convenience ofreference MS has "liberavit" and "Et Quietusest" , instead of"liberaverunt" and "Et Quieti Sunt" (referring to Millicent and Phillipps, the lessees).

2Cf entry[2], E(a) 3The numbering

rotulet 17]

[1]

[Preamble]

SHROPSHIRE

(" Salop'")

Robert Powell, esq , sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich., 36 Eliz. , renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]1

[2] farm . A

John Lloid, junior [lessee] C : £20 D : The whole capital messuage called "Plas Ucha" , with allthebarns , buildings & gardens belonging to it ; and the various other messuages, lands, tenements& hereditaments, withappurtenances , specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under " Res' Salop'' of the lands & tenements of . . . B : John Lloyd, recusant H(a) Aforesaid, John Lloyd, junior, his executors& assigns H(b) From 12 Dec., 31 Eliz [1588]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under Salop'" . F £40 from previous years. : G : £60

J: For £20 of which the sheriff answers on the dorse ofthe present rotulet . And he [lessee] owes £40 . For £20 of which the sheriffanswers on the dorse of the present rotulet. And he [lessee] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under " Salop"" . And he owes £20. [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedfor this year's rent only, unless ... 3

[Lease of seized land Rental]4

[3] farm . A Edward Lloide [lessee] C : £6-13-4. D : Twothirds of one capital messuage called "Lloynemayn" , with appurtenances in Lloynemayne [Llwynymaen], Llanvorda [Llanforda], Trevorghla , Swynney [Sweeney] and theparishof Oswestry, Salop B : Richard Lloyde, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Edward Lloyd & his assigns . H(b) : From 17 May, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry[2]. J: On the last day of April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £3-6-8 waspaid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 25 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £3-6-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Edw Lloide] is quit.

[Lease of seized land

Rental]6

[4] farm . A Griffin Price [lessee] C : £6 D : Two-thirds ofthecourt-leet, view offrank-pledge& royalties ofthemanor of Betton-under-Lune, Salop.; of other lands & tenements , with appurtenances, in Tunstalland Drayton, Salop ; and of a farm called "Almyngton farme" , in Almington, Staffs B : John Preston, gent , recusant H(b) : From 25 June, 33 Eliz. [1591] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under "Item Salop"" . F: £6 from precedingyear. G : £12

132 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SALOP

J: For £6 of which the sheriffanswers on thedorse of the present rotulet. And he [Price] owes £6 [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedfor this year's rent only, unless ... 3

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[5] farm . A: William Sebright, esq [lessee] C : £26-13-4.

D: The manor & rectory of Dutton, alias Ditton, Salop. ; and the manor or capital messuage of Harvington , with apps, in the parish of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs.; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Salop'" : being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Humphrey Pakington, gent., recusant H(b) : From 25 Nov., 34 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). :

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £13-6-8 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. And on 11 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £13-6-8 waspaid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Sebright]is quit

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[6] farm . Isaac Burges, gentleman of the chapel royal, & George Dickenson [lessees ]. C : £15. D.1 : Two-thirds of various messuages, cottages & other hereditaments in Buntingesdale, Longeslowe [Longslow] & Drayton, Salop B.1 : Rowland Bulkeley, recusant. D.2 Two-thirds of a certain messuage or tenement, called "Blackway farme" , with apps , in the parish of Harley B.2 : William Carleton, gent., recusant D.3 : Two-thirds of a tenement, called "Erand" [? Brand], with apps., in the parish of Norton in Hales. B.3 : Richard Gravenor, gent , recusant H(b) : From 30 Nov. , 33 Eliz. [1590] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k): as in entry[4]. F £45 from previous years G : £60

J: For £15 of which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the presentrotulet . And he [Burges] owes £45. [L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged for £15 , unless ....

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[7] farm . A: Thomas Pigott, esq , [lessee] C : £24-13-4. D: Two-thirds of the manor or demesne ("dominii") of Swynnerton, & of the advowson of the church there, with its rights, members& appurtenances, together with otherproperty inStaffs.; ofthemanor of Hughley, & of the advowson ofthe church there ; ofa capital messuage in Blackeway, and ofthe capital messuage called "the Hall of Gattacre" , with apps. ; together with the other property in Salop, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Res' Salop'" . B : Francis Gattacre, esq., recusant. H(b) : From 22 July, 34 Eliz. [1592] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Res' Salop""

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £12-6-8 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. And on 16 Oct., 36Eliz [1594], £12-6-8 waspaid ... [etc. as above] And he [Pigott]isquit.

[Seized land. Rental]10

[8] farm . A

Tenants. C : £1-6-8. C : Two-thirds of one messuage with apps , in Clareley [Claverley], [leasehold] for a number of years not yet expired. B : Ann Lythall, widow , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by reason of her recusancy E(b) : 4 Oct., 34 Eliz [1592] E(a) "Rowland" Barker, esq., & others. E(d): Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]; and preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Salop'" . F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G : £2-13-4 :

[Seized land. Rental]

[9] farm. A

Tenants C : £1-6-8. D : Two-thirds of one messuage, with apps, [leasehold] for a number of years not yetexpired. B : William Jervis ofthe parish ofClun, recusant, who is indebted to the Queenin the sum of £120, byreason of his recusancy. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry[8] F : £1-6-8 from preceding year G : £2-13-4.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[10]farm . A Richard Mason, gent [lessee] C : £6-4-5 & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds of certain tenementsin the town ("vill"") of Shrewsbury ; of the tithes of sheaves of grain & hay, with apps , in Meolbrace [Meole Brace] ; of other lands, tenements& hereditaments, with apps. , in Weme [Wem ] & Edcason [? Edstaston], Salop ; and of a capital messuage in Essington [? Easington]. Yorks B : Richard Banister, esq , recusant H(b) : From 5 July, 34Eliz [1592] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Salop'".12

J : For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the present rotulet . 13

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless ....

[Lease of seized land Rental]14

[11]farm . A William Jewett [lessee]. C : £2-13-4, being part [of an original rent] of £7-2-2 . D : Two-thirds of one tenement, with apps., called "Termehill" , in Drayton B : Thomas Vernon, gent , recusant H(b) : From 16 April, 32 Eliz [1590 ] H (c) H (d) : £2-13-4 H (e) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Salop'" . F: £8 from previous years. G : £10-13-4.

J: But he [Jewett] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor oughtthe said rent to be charged henceforth , by consideration

(1593-4)

of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 33 Eliz, Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he [Jewett] is quit.

[Lease of seized land

[12]farm. A

Rental]15

William Jewett [lessee] C : £4-8-10 , beingthe remainder [of an original rent] of £7-2-2 . D : Two messuages, with apps , in Tonge Norton being a parcel of the lands & possessions of B : Humphrey Foster16 gent., recusant. H(b), (c), (e) and (k) : as in entry [11]. H(d) : £4-8-10 . F : £13-6-8 from previousyears Ġ: £17-15-6 d

J: But he [Jewett] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be chargedhenceforth, for a reason referred to in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under "Salop' in the farm of the tenants of two-thirds of the said property. And he [Jewett] is quit. وو

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]17

[13]farm . A Thomas Palgrave & John Murfyne [lessees] C : 6s. 8d., being part [of an original rent] of £32-2-2 & farthing. D : Two-thirds of one messuage or tenement in Diddlaston, alias Duddleaston [Dudleston], with apps, in Salop B : Thomas ap Richard, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Palgrave & Murfyne, their executors& assigns H(b) : From 2 Dec., 32 Eliz [1589]. H(c) H(d) : 6s 8d H(e). H(k):

Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz. , under "Adhuc Item Sussex"" .

[Lease ofseized land

Rental]18

[14]farm . A Thomas Palgrave & John Murfyne [lessees]

C: £1-15-6 & farthing, being part [of an original rent] of £32-2-2 & farthing D : Two-thirds of one messuage , with apps., in the demesne of Betton under Lyne, Salop. B : John Preston, lately of Drayton, Salop , gent , recusant H(a), (b), (c), (e) and (k) : as in entry[13]. H(d): £1-15-6 & farthing. F : £7-2-2 from previous years G : £8-17-9 & farthing.

J: [Postscript as under entry[10]]

*[Seized land Rental]

[15]farm . A : Tenants. B : Francis Plowden , lately ofShiplake, Oxon., gent., recusant C : £26-2-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirdsofacapital messuage inPlowden, withappurtenances, of the yearly value of £6 ; of a tenement or farm in Lidbury Northe [Lydbury North], yearly value £4 ; of the reversion of 10 separate tenements , with apps., in Yeaton & Cholton [Choulton], yearly value £7-16-8 ; of the reversion of a tenement in Totterhill, yearly value £2-13-4 ; of the reversion of 12 tenements & cottages in Lidbury Northe ,

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) SALOP 135

yearly value £8-14-8 ; of the reversion of a tenement & of certain rents in Lea & Okeley, yearly value £1-12-4 ; of various tenements, with apps , in Bisshoppescastle[Bishop's Castle], yearly value £6-6-6 ; and of various tolls of the holiday & weekly markets of Bysshopscastell ("theolon' mercat' feriar' et nundin' de Bysshopscastell"), yearly value (with the rectory of Lidbury Northe), £2. E(a) : Richard Corbett, esq. & others. E(b) : 28 March, 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz, Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet ( ) F : £39-3-8 from previous years. G : £65-6-12.

J: But they [tenants] oughtnot to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought thesaid rent to be chargedhenceforth, by consideration ofthe Barons [ofthe Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 36 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they are quit.

*[Seized land Rental]

[16]farm . A : Tenants. B : John Longfeyld, "husbandman" , recusant. C : 13s 4d. D : Two-thirds of one tenement in Ditton, of the yearly value of £1 . E(a) : "Rowland" Barker , esq & others. E(b) : 24 April, 35 Eliz. [1593] E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz. , Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F : 6s 8d from precedingyear G : £1

[Arrearage ofrent]

[17]A Tenants B : Francis Gattacre, esq., recusant. F :

£6-6-8 (part of a certain rent of £ 12-13-4), being therent due from the undermentioned property for the half-year ending Ladyday, 34 Eliz. [1592] ; cf. preceding [Recusant]Roll, under "Salop 19 D : Two-thirdsofthe manor & ofthe advowson of the parish church of Hughley, and of the capital messuage called " The Hall of Gattacre" , & of other lands & tenements. J: [L. Margin] Not to be written again, by warrant of the Chancellor[ofthe Exchequer], until etc . 20

[Arrearage oftent] 20

[18]A Tenants. B : Richard Bannester , esq , recusant. C : £3-2-3 (part of a certain rent of £6-4-6), being the rent due from the undermentioned property for the half-year ending Ladyday, 34 Eliz [1592] ; cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under "Salop' 21 D : Two-thirds of certain tenements in the town of Shrewsbury ; of tithes in Meolbrace [Meole Brace] ; of the lease of a messuage & of other lands, tenements & hereditaments in Wem & Edstason [Edstaston] ; and ofother property[" et al'"]

J : [Postscripts as under entry [10]].

136 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SALOP

[Seized goods & chattels]

[19] John Preston, recusant, owes £13-6-8, for the price or value of certain woods & underwood, called "Peettes Wooddes" within the demesne of Tirley [Tyrley], Staffs , which ("quos" [denarios]) Thomas Salter & Richard Heylyn took into the Queen's hands , ofthe goods& chattelsofthe saidJohn Preston; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Salop"" 22 viz. in a certain discharge made to the aforesaid Thomas Salter & Richard Heylyn.

[Postscripts as under entry[10]].

[Seized goods & chattels] ,

[20]William Cause, lately of Tonge [Tong], "yoman" , owes £2 , charged upon himself& due to the Queen for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the said William, taken & seized into the Queen's hands on 4 Oct., 34 Eliz [1592], by Rowland Barker, esq., & others, by virtue of the Queen's commissiondirectedtothem & others ; cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under "Salop'"23

[Postscript] And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Salop"" .

[Seized goods & chattels]24

[21] John ap Hughe of Guilden Downe, in the parish of Clune [Clun], "yoman" , owes £2, charged upon himself& due tothe Queen for the price or value ofthe goods & chattelsofthesaid John, taken & seized into the Queen's hands on the aforesaid date, bythesaidcommissioners, 25 asstatedabove .

[Postscript as under entry[20]].

[rotulet 17 , dorse]

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[22] A The same sheriff, viz. Robert Powell, esq.

B : [2] £20 (John Lloide, jun ) ; [4] £6 (Price) ; [6] £15 (Burges) ; [10] £6-4-5 & two-thirds of d (Mason) ; [14] £8-17-9 & farthing (Palgrave & Murfyne) ; [18] £3-2-3 (Bannester'stenants) ; [19] £13-6-8 (Preston).

C: £72-11-1 .

D : [10] Mason answers for his above debt in the following [Recusant] Roll, under Salop'" , after his farm.26 [18] Bannester's tenants answer for their above debt in the same roll(loc cit).20 26

66

[14]Palgrave& Murfyne answer for £7-2-2 oftheir above debtin thesame roll(loc cit ), aftertheirfarm . 26

E: [2], [4], [6] & [19] On 30 May, 37 Eliz. [1955], he [sheriff] paid £56-2-3 into the Treasury, under the names of John Lloide, jun., & ofthe other recusants , 27 to settle the remainder of his account. And he is quit.

[Arrearage ofrent]

[23] A John Lloide , jun [lessee]. D : The whole of a messuage called "Plas Ucha" & the barns, buildings & gardens belonging to it ; and the various other messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz, under " Res' Salop'" . B : John Lloyde, recusant.

F : £20, viz. the rent due from the above propertyfor one whole year ending Michaelmas, 33 Eliz [1591] ; as is stated in another part ofthis rotulet . 28

J: And he [John Lloide , jun.] answers in [Recusant] Roll , 37 Eliz, under"Salop'" .

[Enrolments of estreatedconvictions for recusancy]29

[24]A Alice Chorleton, lately of Harley, Salop , "spinster" , wife of William Chorleton, gent B. D : £100 F : £80 G.

H. J For 4 months following 1 March, 37 Eliz [1594/5]

L : £20 M Thursday, 18 March, 38 Eliz [1595/6]. N: From date of conviction to 15 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

Elizabeth Draycotte, lately of Preston Gubbolles [Gubbals], "spinster" , wife ofJohn Draycott, esq.

Margery Gravenar of Norton in Hales, "spinster"

Margaret Higgynson, wife of John Higgynson of the same

Katherine Gravenar, lately of Weme [Wem], "spinster"

Cecily Haward , lately of the same , "spinster"

Meredith ap Thomas of Dudleston, "laborer"

Joan , his wife

Thomas ap Richard of the same, "laborer"

Ellen verch Richardes of the same,

"spinster"

]30£100forthelike.

A: Winefrid Bannystar, lately of Weme, "spinster" , wife of Richard Bannyster, esq B. D : £260 F : £240 G.

J : For 12 months following 1 March, 37 Eliz [1594/5]. L, M, N and O : as under Chorleton. John Cherington, lately of Edgemond [Edgmond], "yoman" ...[ ] £260 forthelike. [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationofthe Barons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 22 Charles I, Hilary term , "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And he is quit.

Thomas Howle ofthe same , "yoman"

JohnCareles ofTonge [Tong], "yoman" ( )

• [ ] £260forthe like.

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 260, 1. 42 seq to "Regine huius in Salop'" . 2Cf . entry [22], E. 3"Oni De Anno" in MS ; i.e. the sheriffis charged to collect the rentfor the currentyearonly.

Text as op cit , p 262, 1. 30 seq to " tempore existen' ibid' 5MShas "&"(?for "in") "

Textas op. cit , p 262, 1. 13 seq to " inItem Salop' "Text as op. cit., p. 263 , 1. 36 seq.to"Westmonasterii equaliter"

Text as op cit , p 264 , 1. 11 seq to tempore existen' ibid' '

" ibid'" .

Text as op cit , p. 264, 1. 26 seq. to "xxxiijeloin Res' Salop'"

10Text as op. cit., p 265, 1. 31 seq 11Text as op. cit., p 265, 1. 41 seq 12Cf . op cit., p.266, 1. 38 seq. 13Cf . entry[22], E. 14Text asop cit, p 267, 1. 40 seq to"xxxijdo in Salop'" . 15Text as op. cit , p 268, 1. 6 seq . to" sicut cont' 16 Sic in MS : not "Folcer" , as in Recusant Roll, no 1 (op cit) 17Cf. op cit , p 268, 1. 36 seq 18Cf. op. cit. p 269, 1. 30 seq. 19Cf. op cit , p 265 , 1. 1 seq 20"Non scri per warran'Cancellar ' quousque etc." in MS p 266, 1. 18 seq. 22Cf . op cit , p 270, 1. 40, seq. op cit., p. 266, 1. 7 seq 24Cf.op cit, p 266, 1.12seq. entry [20] 26Note in L.Margin : It is answered ("respondet]ur"). The sheriff (Powell) was thereforedischarged of this amount. 27"sub nominibus JohannisLoide, junior' & al' Recusan'" in MS. 28Cf. entry [2], postscript. 29All items under this heading are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). 30The brackets here & in items belowindicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word "deb'"(owes). Cf. Introd,p xcix.

[rotulet 19]

[Preamble]

SOMERSET (" Somers'")

. op cit,23Cf. 25Cf.

[1] George Lutterell, esq., sheriff ofthis countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich., 36 Eliz., renders ... [etc. as Berks. [1]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[2] farm . A John Straker [lessee] C : £14-10-8 D : Twothirdsofa capital messuage, with appurtenances, inSt.Deacons [St. Decuman's], Somerset, called "Donyford" , of the yearly value of 6s.; with certain other messuages, arable land & pastures, with apps. , in Somerset, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Somers'" . B : Silvester Huysshe, lately of St. Deacons, Somerset, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Straker, his executors & assigns. H(b): From 8 May, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll under , " : Somers F: £36-6-8. from previous years G : £50-17-4. J: On 8 Nov., 33 Eliz [1591], £7-5-4 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury And on 29 April, 34 Eliz [1592], £7-5-4

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SOMERSET 139 was paid ... [etc. as above] And on 12 Nov., 34 Eliz. [1592], £7-5-5 was paid . . . [etc. as above]. And on 7 Nov., 35 Eliz. [1593], £7-5-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 2 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £7-5-4 was paid. . . [etc. as above]. And on 27 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £7-5-4 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And on 8 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £7-5-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Straker] is quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]² [3] farm . A Thomas Griffeth, gent [lessee] C : £10-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of the capital messuage or tenement of Greneham [Greenham], and of all the demesne lands, tenements , meadows , grazing & pasturelands& hereditaments, with apps , in the parish of Asshebrittle [Ashbrittle], Somerset;two-thirds ofthetithes ofsheaves&grain oftherectory of Hockworth [Hockworthy], in Devon, with apps ; and of 2 water-mills in the parish of Stawley, called "Tracebridge Mills" , with apps , in Somerset B : Edmund Marvin of Asshebrittle aforesaid, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Griffith H(b) : From20 June, 34 Eliz [1592] H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry[2] J: On ult April, 26 Eliz [1594], £5-2-3 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. And on 5 Nov. , 36 Eliz [1594], £5-2-3 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Griffeth] is quit.

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]

[4] A George Easton, lately of Tymberscombe[Timberscombe], Som ., gent B. D : £200 F: £160 G. H. J: For 8 months following 20 May, 36 Eliz [1594]. L : £40 M: Wednesdayin the first week of Lent, 40 Eliz [1597/8]. N : From date of conviction to 28 April next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months O.

Robert Steare, lately of Thorne St. Margettes [Thorne St. Margaret] [ ]5£200forthe like.

6A: William Gerrard of Trent, Somst, gent C. D : £240 F : £200. G. H. J : For 10 months following 1 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594]. L : £40 M : Wednesday, 3 March, 38 Eliz. [1595/6] N : From date of conviction to 28 April next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months. O.

P : But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 5 James I, under "Somers"" , inthefarmofthemostnoble [" pernobil'"] Henry,LordCobham . And he is quit

Mary Gerrard , wifeofthe saidWilliam [ ] £240 forthe like.

Ralph Thacker of the same, "husbondman"

James Hall of the same, servant ofthe said William Gerrard [ ] „ [ ] وو

Margaret Bishopp, lately of the same , widow .

Joan Bishopp, servant of the said Margaret

Elizabeth Perham , wife of John Perham , latelyofthesame ,gent.

Vincent Willes, lately of the same , "yoman" .

John Gryndon, lately of Horsington , Somst, "yoman"

Stephen Morris ofQuene Camell [Queen Camel], Somst., "husbondman"

Henry Morris, jun , lately of the same , "husbondman"

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 5 James I, under Somers'" , in the farm of William Davenporte. And he is quit "

Leonard Bennett, lately of the same , "weaver"

Jane Kemyshe, wife of John Kemishe , latelyofCucklington , Somst, gent.. [

[ ]'Prater, wife of George Prater , lately of Wytham Frarye [Witham Friary], Somst, gent [ ] ,

Dorothy Cooke, wife ofWilliam Cooke , latelyofBreuham[Brewham], Somst [ ]

Robert Hunton, lately of Penselwood, Somst , gent

Edward Keynes, lately of Compton Pansfote [Compton Pauncefoot], Somst, gent.

,,

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 12 James I, under " Somers'" , in another debt of the same Edward And he is quit.

Katherine, wife of the said Edward Keynes

Henry Sherwood ,latelyofBrewton [Bruton], Somst. , "Groome"

Jane Fitzjames, wife of John Fitzjames, lately of Shepton Mountague, Somst , gent.

Edmund Marvyn of Aysshbrittell [Ashbrittle], Somst. , esq ..

Margaret Steere, wife of George Steere of Thorne St. Margaret , Somst, " husb."" .

] £240for the like

RobertSteere ofthesame .

John Hill of Westmunckton [West Monkton], Somst. , gent

Thomas Seller, of Netherstowey [Nether Stowey], Somst, " husb""

HumphreySeller ofthe same, " husb" "

Robert Seller, son of Robert Seller of the same, "husbond''

Margaret Parsons ofthe same , widow

John Kinge ofthesame

John Ellys of the same

Elizabeth Maunsell, wife of Richard Maunsell ofNorthpetherton [North Petherton], Som., esq.

Katherine Maunsell of Otterhampton ,

Somst

ChristopherSaywardofthe same

John Walker, lately of Bridgewater, Somst. , gent ..

Edward Walker, son of the said John Walker, ofthesame .

ClementCulverwell of Stogursey,Somst, "yoman"

Alice Luke, daughter of GeorgeLukeof Crewkerne, Somst, "Shoemaker" ( )

John White of Dunster, Somst .

John HillofWythicombe [Withycombe], Somst.

JohnElston ofTymberscombe,Somst.

AmbroseHill ofTaunton, Somst. , gent ..

Thomas Davyes alias Welshman of the same

Ursula Joller , servant of Thomas Muttleberye of Aishill [Ashill], Somst , gent.

George Baylie, lately of Kaynsham [Keynsham], Somst , "husband''

William Bull of the same, "husbondman"

RichardGaieofthe same, "husbondman"

Joan Browne, wife of William Browne of Priston, Somst , "spinster"

Joan Browne, their daughter, ofPriston, "spinster"

£240forthelike

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt],for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz. , under "Somers'" , in the farm of the tenants ofthe lands & tenements ofJohn Lewick . Andsheisquit.

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SOMERSET

JohnMilsonofthe same, "husbondman" owes £240 forthe like. [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt],for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under" Somers'" , in thefarm ofthe tenants ofthe lands & tenements of the said John Lewick And he is quit.

John Justis of the same, "husbond'"

JoanWerrettofthe same, "spinster"

Thomas Culverhowse of Inglescombe [ ] £240 for the like. [Englishcombe], Somst , "husband"" [ ]

William Ludwell ofthe same, "husbondman"

HumphreyGrovealias SellerofHuntspill, Somst., "husband'"

Robert Grove alias Seller of the same , "husband'"

John Force of Weston super Mare , Somst, gent [Postscript]But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], byconsideration oftheBarons [oftheExchequer] ; cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 40 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he is quit. Katherine Force, wife of the said John Force, of the same

Grace Poyntington, wife of Ralph Poyntington of Froome Zelwood [Frome Selwood], Somst, husbond''دو 66

William CollynsofCharterhowseHenton [Hinton Charterhouse], Somst., "husbond""

Henry Tayler alias Joice of Merston Bigott [Marston Bigott], Somst. , "husbondman"

[ ] £240 forthelike. . [ ] „ „ [ ] , " ,, . owes £240forthelike [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned forthis [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under Somers'" , in the farm of the tenants of the lands & tenements of John Lewick. And he is quit. [ ] £240 forthe like [ ]'hiswife

Anthony Peyrd of Roade [Rode], Som ., "Fuller" owes 33 [Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz , under " Somers"" , in the farm of the tenants of the lands & tenements of John Lewick And he is quit

Thomas Tyler ofthe same, "Fuller"

Mary Sheppherd , wife of Philip Sheppherd of Phillipps Norton [Norton St. Philip), Somst, "clothier"

[ ] £240 forthelike . [ ] و دو "

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SOMERSET-STAFFS

Mary Catatt ofBrimpton. Alice Johnson of the same, servant of John Siddenham of Bympton

Thomas Goodsole of Cheeselborough [Chiselborough], Somst , "husbondman"

[? Brimpton], esq. 143 [ ] £240 for thelike [ ] , • [ ]

Henry KeymerofPendomer, Somst,esq owes [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 40 Eliz. , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And he is quit. Thomas Hawker, senior, of Evill [? Yeovil], Somst. , "husband"" Grace Knowle, wife of William Knowell of Sampford Orcas [Sandford Orcas], Somst. , gent

[ ] £240 forthelike.

[ ]

1Cf . C.R.S.,XVIII, p.292, 1. 11 seq. 3"de" in MS : not "in" Greneham, as in op cit following items are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio") 5The brackets here & in items belowindicate a space left in MS for the later insertion(when required)oftheword " deb'" (owes). Cf. Introd., p. xcix 6This & the remaining items are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio") 7The brackets indicatea spaceleft inMS for Christianname .

[rotulet 20]

[Preamble]

2Cf. op cit, p. 293, 1.1 seq 4This and the

STAFFORDSHIRE

(" Staff"")

[1] Sir Edward Litleton, knt. , sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz , to Mich. , 36 Eliz , renders. . . . [etc. as Berkshire [ 1]]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Thomas Greysley, esq [lessee]. C : £15. D : The manor of Wolseley, and all the arable land, tenements, meadow , grazing & pastureland, woods, underwood & hereditamentsbelonging to the saidmanor in Staffs ; alsoallthe lands , tenements& hereditaments, with apps , in Parheywood [Little (Parva) Haywood], Staffs of the lands & tenementsof ... B : Erasmus Wolseley, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Greysley, his executors & assigns. H(b) From Michaelmas , 27 Eliz [1585] H(c) : ... "for the satisfaction of the said Erasmus Wolseley's debt of £500" . H(d) : as C. H(e)

144 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) STAFFS

H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under "Staff"" .

F : £15 from precedingyear. G : £30

J : For which the sheriffanswers below.2

[L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged unless . . ..

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³

[3] farm . A : Ralph Husbond, gent [lessee] C : £45-5-3

D: Two-thirds of the manor of Chillington, Staffs, with appurtenances ; and of the various other manors, messuages, lands, & tenementsspecified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 29 Eliz, under Res' Staff " . B : John Gifford, esq , recusant

H(a) Aforesaid Ralph Husbond, his executors & assigns.

H(b) From 8 July, 30 Eliz. [1588]. H(c). H(d) : as C.

H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [2] "

J: On 27 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £22-12-7 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 28 Oct. , 36 Eliz [1594], £22-12-7 waspaid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Husbond] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]4

[4] farm A Hugh Cuffe, gent [lessee]. C : £16-3-10, being part of £75-13-10, the remainder [of an original rent] of £84-3-10. D : A moiety of the farm of Litlewood, in the parish of Bradley, Staffs. , together with the various other lands & tenementsin Staffs., specified in the Great [Pipe]Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Res' Staff'" . B : Walter Blunt, "and other recusants" H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Cuff, his executors and assigns. H(b) : From Michaelmas, 27 Eliz [1585]. H(c).

H(d): £16-3-10 H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2]. F : £28-17-8 from previous years . G : £45-1-6.

J: [Postscripts as under entry [2]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]5

[5] farm . A: HughWorthe[lessee]. C: £8-11-11 d. D: Twothirds of certain lands & tenements in Milwiche, Cotton & Garringshall [Garshall], Staffs.; togetherwiththe various other rents, messuages & tenementsspecifiedin the Great [Pipe]Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Res' Staff"" . B : William Macclesfeild , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Hugh Worthe, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 14 June, 33 Eliz [1591], "for a term of 21 years" . H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : _as in entry [2] F : £8-11-11 from preceding year G : £17-3-11 . J : [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]6

[6] farm . A Edward Thorne [lessee] C : £12-16-8 D.1 : One tenement, with apps , called "Hartsmeare" , and various arable & meadow lands in the fields of Hampstall Ridware ,

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

Staffs.; of the lands & tenements of . . B.1 : Richard Fytzherbert, gent. D.2 : A moiety of a certain tenement called "Sandborowe" [Sandborough], with certain lands belonging to it ; ofthe lands and possessions of ... B.2 : Agnes Knowles. D.3 A moiety of the said tenement called "Sandborrowe" , ofthe lands & tenementsof ... B.3 : John Knowles , recusant D.4 Two-thirds of a certain farm called "Bancroftes" , with apps B.4 Thomas Collyer, clerk, recusant H(a) ; Aforesaid Edward Thorne H(b) : From 22 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Res' Staff"" . F : £25-13-4 from previous years. G : £38-10s. : J: But he [Thorne]oughtnot to be summoned for £7-10s .(partof the above annual rent of £12-16-8), viz £4-10s from the Sandborowe property of Agnes Knolles & £3 from the Sandborowe property ofJohn Knowles ,from the said22 Dec., 34 Eliz., to Michaelmas of this year, 36 Eliz. [1594], i.e. for a period of 3years, nor ought the said£2-10s of the above rent of£12-16-8 to be chargedhenceforth, by considerationof the Barons [ofthe Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] And he [Thorne]owes £31 . [Furtherpostscripts as under entry [2]].

[Seized land. Rental]8

[7] farm . A

...

Tenants C : £2-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D: Two-thirds of a certain annual rent of £3-6-8, for a term of 10 years or thereabouts, issuing from a capital messuage & various lands or tenementsin Denston [Denstone], payable at Michaelmas only B : Thomas Chetwinde, gent , recusant , who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £60, by reason of his recusancy. E(a) : Thomas Hesketh, esq & others. E(b) : 29 May, 33 Eliz. [1591] E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Staff"" . F : £5-11-1 & two-thirds of d. from previous years G : £7-15-7, & two-thirdsof 1d. J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease ofseized land Rental]⁹

[8] farm . A Thomas Hill & Elizabeth, his wife [lessees ] C : £47-2-2 & two-thirds of d. D.1 : Two-thirds of a tenement in Goscott [Goscote], Staffs , with certain closes, pastures & meadowspertaining to it. B.1 : Edward Birche, "husbandman" , recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of a house in Wallshall [Walsall], called "Ladyhall" , together with the various other messuages, crofts, lands & tenements with appurtenances, in Staffs., specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Staff " . B.2 Walter Whittall, gent. , recusant H(a): Aforesaid Thomas & Elizabeth, their executors & assigns H(b) From 15 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591]. H(c). H(d): as C. "

146 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) STAFFS

H(e). H(k) as in entry [7], E(d). F : £94-4-4 & twothirdsoftd.from previousyears G : £141-6-7

J: [Postscripts as under entry[2]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]10

[9] farm. A: Thomas Higgenson & Anthony Witheringes [lessees ]. C : £2 D : The whole of a messuage, 2 cottages, and 10 acres ofarable land, 3 acres ofmeadow& about 10 acres ofpastureland, with apps., situated in Fenton Vivion, Berryhill [in Hanley] & "le meere lane ende" [in Caverswall], Staffs ; being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : Edmund¹¹ Viez , "yoman" , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas & Anthony, their executors & assigns H(b) : From 11 April, 35 Eliz. [1593]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry [7], E(d). F : £1 , for the last part of preceding year. G : £3.

J : [Postscripts as under entry[2]]

[Seized goods & chattels]12

[10] Richard Bagott & Edward Leighe, esqs , & Henry Duporte, gent., owe£11-1s, whichsumthey havetaken ("quos[denarios] ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of Agnes Knolles, widow, recusant ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under "AdhucRes Staff'" .

[Seized goods & chattels]12

[11] The same Richard, Edward & Henry owe £33-3s, which sum they have taken [into the Queen's hands], of the goods & chattels of Edward Birche, recusant ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under "AdhucRes' Staff"" .

[Seized goods & chattels]12

[12] The same Richard . . . [etc.]. . . owe £7-1s , which sum . [etc .]... ofJohn Collyer, recusant ; cf ... [ref. as in entry[11 ]].

[Seized goods& chattels]12

[13] The same Richard . . [etc.] . . . owe £5-0-4, which sum . [etc ]... ofGeorgeCooke, recusant ; cf .. [ref as in entry[11 ]]

[Seized goods& chattels]12

[14] The same Richard ... [etc .]... owe £2-12-10, which sum .. [etc ]... of Timothy Browne, recusant cf ... [ref asin entry [11]]

[Seized goods& chattels]12

[15] The same Richard .. . [etc.] ... owe £30-5-4, which sum .. . [etc .]... ofRichard Fitzherbert, gent , recusant&fugitive;cf ... [ref. as in entry[11]]. 13

[Seized goods & chattels]12

[16] The same Richard . . . [etc.] . owe £22-10s , which sum . . [etc.] of William Poker, supposed recusant & fugitive (" supposit' recusan' et fugitivi") ; cf ....[ref. as in entry [11]] 13

[Seized goods & chattels]12

[17] The same Richard . .. [etc.] . . owe £2-18s , which sum [etc.] of Thomas Gretton, supposed recusant & fugitive; cf ... [ref. as inentry[11]].13

[Seized goods& chattels]12

[18] The same Richard ... [etc .]... owe£4, whichsum ... [etc .]... of Thomas Collyer, supposed recusant & fugitive ; cf. . [ref as in entry [11]]. 13

[Seized goods& chattels]12

[19] The same Richard .. . [etc.] . . . owe £7-2-2, which sum . [etc. ] of Margery Wade, supposed recusant & fugutive; cf ... [ref as in entry [11]] 13 ..

[Arrearage of rent]

[20] A Tenants D : Two-thirdsoflands& tenementsinWalsall & Bloxwyche, Staffs ; and of various lands & tenementsin Linley [Lindley], Leics B : Walter Whittall, recusant F : 14£66-13-4, of a certain annual rent of £44-8-10% , viz. the rent due from the above propertyfor 1 year ending at Michaelmas, 33 Eliz [1591] ; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Staff"" 15

J: [Postscripts as under entry [2]]

[Arrearage of rent]

[21] A Tenants B : Francis Gattacre, latelyof Clareley[Claverley], Salop , esq recusant. D : Two-thirds of the manor or demesne ofSwynnerton & ofthe advowson ofthe church there and ofother lands&tenementsof the said Francis F :[ ]14 £6, being part of a certain annual rent of £12 , viz. for the half-year ending at Ladyday, 34 Eliz. [1592]; cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Staff"".16

J: [L. Margin] Not to be written again by warrant of the Chancellor[ofthe Exchequer], untiletc. 17

[Arrearage of rent]

[22] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of lands & tenements in Walsall & Bloxwiche, Staffs. ; and ofvarious lands& tenements in Linley [Lindley], Leics B : Walter Whittall, recusant. F: £44-8-10% for Thomas Leveson, esq., lately sheriff of the year 33 Eliz (as stated in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under Res' Staff" ), being the rent due from the above

148 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) STAFFS

propertyfor onewhole year ending Michaelmas, 34 Eliz [1592]; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Staff""

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], because Thomas Hill & anotherperson answers above18for this & other rents in a certain annual sum of £47-2-2 & two-thirds of d. from 15 Dec., 34 Eliz [1591], since which date they [Hill & wife] have been answerable to the Queen by another commission ; as stated above . 18 And they [tenants] are quit.

[Statement ofsheriff'sarrears]

[23]A : The same sheriff, viz. Sir Edward Litleton, knt.

B : [2] £30 (Greysley) ; [4] £45-1-6 (Cuffe) ; [5] £17-3-11 (Worthe) ; [6] £31 (Thorne) ; [7] £7-15-7 (Chetwinde's tenants) ; [8] £141-6-7 (T. & E. Hill) ; [9] £3 (Higgenson and another) ; [20] £66-13-4(Whittall's tenants).

C : £342-0-11 .

D : [9] On 1 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £1 (of the debt of£3) was paid into the Treasury, under the name of Thomas Higginson & another And on 5 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £1 (of the debt of £3) was paid . . . [etc. as above]

[2] Greysleyanswers for £15 ofhis debt of£30 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under "Staff"" , after hisfarm . 19

[5] Worthe answers for his debt of £17-3-11 in thesame roll (loc cit ), afterhisfarm . 19

[6] Thorneanswers for his debtof£31 in same roll(loc cit), after hisfarm . 19

[7] Chetwinde'stenants answer for their debt of £7-15-7 in same roll(loc cit), after theirfarm . 19

[8] T. & E. Hill answer for £138-13-4 of their debt of £141-6-7, in same roll(loc cit.), after theirfarm . 19

[9] Higgenson etc. answer for the remaining £1 of their debt of£3 in same roll (loc cit), aftertheirfarm . 19

[20] Whittall's tenants answer for their debt of £66-13-4 in same roll (loc cit ) 19

E : And he [sheriff] owes £62-14-10. And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under "Staff"" .

[rotulet 20, dorse]

[Record of annual fine-payment due]20

[24]A John Draycote, esq C. D : £140 H. E: From ult. Sept., 37 Eliz. [1595] to 13 April, 38 Eliz. [1596], i.e. for 7

[lunar] months K. G.

P: But he ought not to be summonedforthis [debt], byconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz, Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he is quit.

[Enrolments ofestreated convictions for recusancy] 21 [25] A

John Comberford, lately of Wednesbury, Staffs, gent. B. D : £80. F £60 G. H. J: For 3 months following 1 May, 37 Eliz. [1595] L : £20 M : Monday, 22 March, 38 Eliz [1595/6] N : From date of conviction to 19 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

LadyAnn Butler, wife ofJohn Draycote of Chedull [Cheadle], in the parish of Chedull, Staffs, esq .

George Litleton of Swynford Regis [Kingswinford], gent.

Alban Draycott ofWolstanton, gent.

Ellen Draycott , his wife

Dorothy Walker, wife ofSamsonWalker ofWeston, gent

George CockeramofPattington [Pattingham ?], gent ..

EdmundConweyofHanbury, "yoman"

Ellen Dorrington, wife of Thomas Dorrington of Muckleston [Muxon], "yoman"

Margaret Willington of the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, "spinster"

Joan Wright, wife of John Wright of Stowe, "yoman" .

Jane Acton, wife of Robert Acton of Muckleston, "yoman"

Joan Bolte alias Stone of Churcheaton [Church Eaton], "spinster"

MargeryLoune23 ofthe same, "spinster"

Robert Hamlyn of Meere [Maer], "yoman" owes

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summonedforthis

debt], for a reasonreferred to in another debt of his [recorded]in [Recusant] Roll, 41 Eliz., under" Staff"" . Andheis quit.

William Faldringe ofLeighe, "laborer"

FrancisConweyofthe same, "laborer"

JoanGreene, wife of Thomas Greene of Roceter [Rocester]

Margaret Madley, wife of Thomas Madleyof the same, "yoman" .

Joyce Rowley of Norton in le Mores [Moors], widow

Joan BouldeofChedulton [Cheddleton], widow

RalphLeigheofthe same , "yoman"

James Fourde of Ipstons [Ipstones], "yoman"

80 for the like.

PhilippaFourde, hiswife

John Sutton, alias Pyncke, of Leeke , "yoman"

JaneRiddyard ofthe same , "spinster"

Joan Johnson of "spinster"

[ ] £80 for the like

Shene [Sheen],

Joan Shemans, wife of John Shemans of

Tamworth , "yoman"

Joan Sadler, alias Nucklyn, ofthe same , "spinster"

[Record of annual fine-payment due]20

[26]A John Draycote, esq C. D.: £ 140 H. E : From From 13 April, 38 Eliz [1596] to 26 Oct., Eliz [1596], i.e. for 7 months. K. G.

P : But he oughtnot tobe summoned for this [debt],byconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. Andheis quit.

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]24

[27]A George Lyttleton of Swinford Regis [Kingswinford]

Staffs , esq B. D: £80 F: £60 G. H. J: For 3 months following 1 Dec., 38 Eliz [1595] L : £20 M : Monday, 22 March, 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. N: From date ofconviction to 19 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month O.

John Gifford ofChillyngton, esq. . owes £80 for the like. [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned forthis [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 11 James I, under " Salopp'" , in thefarm of the tenants of the land & tenements ofthe said John Gifford Andheisquit.

JoyceGifford,wife ofthe aforesaidJohn [ ] £80 forthelike.

Ann Heveningham , wife ofWalterHeveningham of Clyston Camvile [Clifton Campville], Staffs , esq ..

Philip Draycott of Chedull [Cheadle], esq.

LadyAnnButler ,wifeofthe said Philip .

William Robertes of Dreewood [?Brewood], Staffs., "yoman"

JoanDale ofthe same,widow

Dorothy Smithe ofthesame, "spinster"

John Sotherneof the same, "laborer"

Simon Ryder of Westbromwich, Staffs , [ ] "yoman"

Margaret Ryder, wife ofthe said Simon .

Alice Sheppard , wife of William Sheppard of the same

Elizabeth Harper, lately of Chesardu' in the parish of Bysshebury [Bushbury], Staffs , "spinster"

John Simondes ofTamworth, "Draper"

[ ] £80 for the like

Grace Simondes of the same, "spinster" [

Margaret Dey, wife of Thomas Dey of the same

Elizabeth Tomlinson of the same, "spinster"

Joan Sadler, alias Nicklin, of the same , "spinster"

John Freemanofthe same, "laborer"

John Keelinge of the same, "laborer"

Richard GardenofWallsall, "laborer"

Cassandra Holland, wife of Thomas Holland ofthe same , "yoman"

WalterWhitall ofthe same , gent

And he is quit

Hill & another [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt],for areason referredto in [Recusant] Roll, 6 James I, under " Leic"" , in the farm of Thomas [" & al'"] [ ]25Whitall, wife of the said Walter . [ ] ) £80 forthelike

Edward Byrche ofthe same, "yoman" owes

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for areasonreferred to in [Recusant] Roll, 2James I, under "Staff" , in another debt of the same Edward. And he is quit

Rose Byrche, wife ofthe said Edward [ ] £80 forthe like.

Elizabeth Turner, wife ofWilliam Turner of Pemkriche [Penkridge]

Isabel Hartofthe same , widow .

Thomas James of Dunston within the parish of Pemkriche [Penkridge], Staffs., "laborer" , [ ] [ ] " ,, owes

" " "

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 42 Eliz., Michaelmas term , "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ] And he is quit.

Edward Lynes of Copnall [Coppenhall], Staffs., "weaver" [ ] £80 for thelike. owes

Margaret Lane of Horborne [Harborne , Warwicks], widow

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ;

cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 7 James I, Easter term , Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And she is quit.

MaryComerford,wife ofWilliam Comerford of Wednesbury, Staffs. , esq. [ ] £80 forthe like.

EdwardBreggeofthe same, "weaver" .. [ ] £80forthelike.

Thomasina Harris , wife of John Harris of Typton [Tipton], "laborer" .

WilliamStafford ofWeeford, "laborer"

Margery Lee, wife of William Lee of Hynce [Hints], Staffs.

Margery26ofthe same, "spinster"

KatherineChetwynofthesame, widow [ ] 25Serjaunt ofthe same , gent

Thomas 26 of the same, "laborer"

John Fonte [? or Foute] of the parish of St.Chad ["Sancti Cedde"), Stafford, Staffs., "Buttonmaker"

William Stapleton of Frodeswall [Fradswell], Staffs., gent.

Margaret Stapleton, wife of the said William

Erasmus Worseley of Colwich, Staffs., gent. [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for

debt

for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 3 James I, under Staff"" , in thefarm ofErasmus Wolsley, esq Andheisquit.

JohnWinockle ofthe same , "laborer" .

Isabel , his wife

Joan,wifeofThomas Plant ofColwiche, Staffs., "laborer"

RalphUppinghamofthe same, "laborer"

Alice Blythe of the same, "spinster"

Joan Snowe of Berkeswiche [Berkham Sytch?], Staffs., "spinster"

Isabel Stapleton, wife of George Stapleton of the same , gent.

Isabel Stapleton of the same , widow

William Minoo' 27ofthe same , gent.

Alice Dickensonofthe same, "spinster"

same,

William Barnesley of the "laborer" [ ]25Smyth ofWolverhampton , Staffs., widow

MargaretSmytheofthe same, "spinster"

Elizabeth Wylkes of Bilson [Bilston], in the parish of Wolverhampton , widow

Humphrey Hall of Hylton [Hilton], in the same parish, "laborer"

Alice James of Gnosall, "spinster"

Felicia Lane of the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, "spinster" .

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

William Willington of the same , "laborer"

Ellen , wifeofthe aforesaidWilliam [rotulet 10, dorse] • [ (" Res' Staff'")28

£80 for the like.

A MargaretWillington of the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, Staffs., "spinster" . B. D : £80 F : £60 G. H. J: For 3 months following 1 Dec., 38 Eliz [1595]. L : £20

M: Monday, 22 March, 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. N: From date ofconvictionto 19 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month O.

Francis Thornebury of the same, "yoman"

[ ]25his wife

John Yateof the same, "laborer" [ ]25 his wife 22£80 for the like.

JohnMargeram ofthe same, "laborer"

RalphByddulpheofHorton, Staffs., gent [ ] Ann, his wife

FrancesWood ofthe same, "spinster"

Christopher[ ]26 ofthe same , "laborer"

Joan Gould of Chedulton [Cheddleton], Staffs. , widow

Alban DraycottofWolstanton, Staffs., gent

Ellen , his wife

Ranulph ("Ranulphus") Drett of the same , gent

ThomasBurne ofthe same, "yoman"

[Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in a debt ofWilliam Crompton, esq., sheriff, in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under "Staff""

Joan Wright of Hixon, in the parish of Stoue [Stowe] Staffs , wife of William Wright

Elizabeth Goodwyn, wife of John Goodwyn ofSwynnerton, Staffs , "blacksmith"

Alice Tully, wife of Henry Tully of Stafford, within the parish of CastleChurch, nearStafford29

And he is quit. [ ] £80 for thelike.

Frances Bolt, wife of Hugh Bolt of Churcheyton [Church Eaton], Staffs [

Joan Stonner ofthe same .

Margery Sherrott, alias Lymer, of the same , "spinster" .

Katherine Maxfeild of Trentham , Staffs., "spinster"

William Maxefeild of Meare [Maer], Staffs ., gent. [

[ ] £80 for thelike. . Owes " وو دو "

Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summonedforthis[debt], for a reasonreferred to immediately below, in another debt of the same William . And he is quit

WilliamMaxefeild ofTrentham, Staffs ... owes £80 forthe like. [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned forthis [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 43 Eliz., under " Item Staff"" , in anotherdebt ofthesame WilliamMaxfeild And he is quit.

John Maxefeildof the same , gent

Ursula, wife of William Maxefeild of Meare .

Margaret Maxfeild of the same , "spinster"

AndrewMaxfeildofBradley,Staffs.,gent

Ann, his wife

Humphrey Maxfeild of the same, gent ..

JoyceStapleton of the same , "spinster"

Joan Amyes of the same, "spinster"

JoanAdderley, wife ofRichard Adderley ofthe same , "yoman"

MichaelBroxton of Ellenhall, "laborer"

Ellen Vise of Staunden "spinster"

] £80 forthelike

] [Standon], [ ]

Edmund Draycott of Stone [? or Stoue (Stowe)], Staffs, gent. [ ], 25 hiswife

GraceVyse ofthesame , widow

William Morrysofthe same, "carpenter" ( )

Ranulf ("Ranulphus")

Grosvenor of Muckleston [Muxon], Staffs , gent

Jane , hiswife

Robert Grosvenorof the same , gent.

Cecily Grosvenorofthe same, "spinster"

Ellen 26 ofthe same, "spinster"

William Claxton ofthe same , gent.

Elizabeth, his wife

Ellen Dorrington , wife of Thomas Dorrington ofthesame , gent.

Elizabeth Dorrington

Mary Dorrington

Ann Dorrington

LucyDorrington ofthe same, "spinster"

William Dorrington of the same , "yoman"

Margaret Gryme, wife of John Gryme of Hopton, Staffs., " husb'" . owes £80 for thelike. [Postscript] But she oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R. , 5 James I, Easterterm, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And she is quit

Humphrey Henner ofthe same, " husb

widow

Alice Faldringe of Leighe, in the parish of Faldringe, Staffs., widow

EdwardFaldringeofthe same , "laborer" [

WilliamFaldringeofthe same, "laborer"

Margaret Walhowe of Tutbury, Staffs , [ ] £80 for thelike. [ ] [ ]] " [ ]

Ellen Conwey, ofthe same,widow

John Conweyofthesame , husb'

[ ]

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, I CharlesI, in thefarm of the tenantsofthe lands ofthe same John

And he is

.

ThomasConweyofthe same, " husb'" owes 30£80 for the like.

Alice Conwey ofthe same, "spinster"

Alice Ryley, wife of Edward Ryley .

Francis Alte of the same, "laborer"

Margaret , his wife "

Agnes Ley of the same , widow

Francis Ley of thesame , husb'

George Ley of the same , " husb'

John Ley ofthesame , husb'" "

AliceLey of the same, "spinster"

Elizabeth Ley ofthe same

James Fourde of Ipstons [Ipstones], Staffs., " husb'""

"Philadelphia" , his wife

Francis Fourde ofthe same, "laborer" [ ] ,,

Philip Trevyn of the same, "yoman"

Matilda Poker of Hampstall Ridware, wife ofWilliam Poker

MargaretEke of the same, widow

Katherine Eke of the same, "spinster"

MargeryArnold , wife ofThomas Arnold of the same, "yoman"

Eleanor Burgesofthe same, "spinster" ( 1

Eleanor Yate, wife of Richard Yate of Kinson [? Kingston], Staffs ., "yoman"

Elizabeth Draycott, wife of John Dray-

] cott ofDraycott, "yoman" . .

Elizabeth Trevyn, wife of John Trevyn ofthe same , "yoman"

Mary Warrilowe, wife of John Warrylowe ofthe same , "yoman" .

Ellen Hancockes, wife of John Hancockesofthe same , "yoman"

Joan Gallymore of the same , widow

Isabel Hallam ofthe same , widow

Edmund Hallam ofthe same, "laborer"

Humphrey Browneofthe same , "laborer"

A: JohnCumberfortofWednesbury,Staffs., gent.

the

F : £480 G. J For 2 years following 1 March, 36 Eliz. [1593/4]. L. M, N and O : as under Margaret Willington above

William Cumberfort, jun , of the same , gent.

Dorothy Cumberfort of the same , [ ]

gentlewoman31

A: Elizabeth Hansonof the same, "spinster" .

500 for thelike.

.

F : £20. G. J: For 1 month following 1 Feb. , 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. L : £20. M : Monday, 22 March, 38 Eliz [1595/6]

N: From date of convictionto 19 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

A: DorothyWollescrofte of the same, widow B. D : £500 .

F : £480. G. J : For 2 years following 1 March, 36 Eliz [1593/4]. L, M, N and O : as in precedingitem.

Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 295, l 15 seq (with variant phrasings)

pore'" "

2Cf . entry [23], D. Text as op. cit , p 295, 1. 35 seq (with variant phrasings) to equales porc'" . *Text as op cit, p 296, 1. 19 seq (with variant phrasings ) to " equales porc"" Text as op cit ,p 298 , 1. 5 seq (withvariant phrasings)to"equales 6Text as op cit , p 298, 1. 20 seq. (with variant phrasings) to" in Res' Staff'" . 7"predict' Ls . " in MS The word "predict" is confusing Thesum, £2-10s , is the combined yearlyrent from the properties of Agnes and John Knowles (unspecified in the text) In the following Recusant Rolls these properties are omitted from Thorne's farm, and the yearly rent, stated as being due from him, is £10-6-8 8Text as op cit , p 298, 1. 37 seq to" capt' et seisit'" op, cit.. p 299, 1. 30 seq. 10Cf. op cit , p 301 , 1. 40 seq 11Sic in MS : not "Edward" , as in Rec Roll No. 1 (op. cit.). 12Entries [10] to [19] inclus , are bracketed , R., with the note : Total of these 10 debts : £125-13-8 . But they [Bagott, Leighe& Duporte] ought not to be summonedfor these [debts], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 32 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ], where it is considered that the aforesaid Richard Bagott, Edward Leyghe, esqs , & Henry Duporte, gent , should be exonerated & quit of the said debts [totalling] £125-13-8, as regards the Queen, and that EdwardThorne should answer to the Queen for the said several debts, taken & seized by him And he [Thorne] answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Staff"" . 13Cf. Introd, p. xxxix , n. 14A blank space is left in MSfortheword

Cf.

" deb'" (owes)

16Cf. 15Cf . op. cit , p 296, 1. 37 seq . 17"Non scri per warran' Cancellar' op cit , p 299, 1. 8 seq. quamdiuetc." inMS 18Cf.entry[8], above 19[L margin] Itis answered("r[espondet]ur") Thesheriff[Litleton] was therefore discharged of this amount. 20For Draycote's case, see Introd. , p lxxxvi 21The items underthis heading, toJoan Sadler inclus, are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued("fi[at] Commissio") 22The brackets here & in items belowindicatea space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word deb'" (owes) Cf. Introd p xcix 23Possibly "Louve" or "Lonne" . 24The items underthis heading , to EllenWillington inclus., are bracketed , L., withtheNote : Let a commission be issued. 25The brackets indicate a space left in MS for Christian name 26The bracketsindicate a space left in MS for surname 27Sic in MS , for Minors In the Recusant Roll of 1600 (E . 377/9], "Res" Staff ") the name is given as "William Miners" . 28The items underthis headingare bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued 29 de Staff' infra paroch' Castri prope Staff"" in MS. 30The insertion of the word " deb'" here is obviously a clerical error 31"generos' in MS. A rare example of the feminine"generosa" : see otherexamples under" Res' Suff"" p, 168.

[rotulet 21]

[Preamble]

SUFFOLK ("

Suff"")

[1] Robert Forthe, esq., sheriff of this countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich , 36 Eliz , renders ... [etc. as Berkshire [1]]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]¹

[2] farm . A : William Dunston [lessee] C : £15-6-8. D : Two-thirds of the lands, tenements & hereditaments, called "Charsfeild Close" , with apps., situated, lying & existing in Charsfeild, Suff, of which a certain John Bedingfeild is seised for the term of his life, with reversion after the death of the said John to a certain Thomas Bedingfeild, esq , for an annual sum exceeding £40, payable to the said Thomas, and now in the tenure of John Bedingfeild or his assigns B : John Bedingfeild of Redlingefeild,² Suff., esq., recusant H(a) : William Dunston, his executors & assigns H(b): From 14 June, 30 Eliz [1588] H(c) : "for the satisfaction ofa debt of £70,3owed by the said John Bedingfeild, esq " H(d) : as C. H(e). H(g). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Suff"

J: On 20 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £7-13-4 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. And on 15 Oct., 36Eliz. [1594], £7-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]l And he [Dunston] is quit.

[Seized land Rental]4

[3] farm . A Tenants C : £8-17-91. D : One tenement &

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other property [unspecified] B : ThomasStone, alias Oliver, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140, by virtue of the aforesaid Act.5 E(d) as in entry [2], H(k). F: £8-17-9 from preceding year G : £17-15-6 . J: For whichthe sheriffanswers on the dorse ofthis rotulet .

[Lease of seized land Rental]?

[4] farm .

A John Forrest, gent [lessee] C : £30 D : Twothirds of the manor of Milles [? Mells], with all its rights, membersand appurtenances; also ofthe various othermanors, mills, messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Suff., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz., under " Item Suff' B : Walter Norton, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Forrest, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From Ladyday, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2].

J: But he [Forrest] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged from 16 March, 36 Eliz. [1593/4], because Thomas Webber answers on the dorse ofthe present rotulet for £36-13-4 per ann , as rent for the same premises from the said 16 March, 36 Eliz.; and thereafter he [Webber] is answerable to the Queen by another commission . And he [Forrest] isquit.

[Lease ofseized land Rental]

[5] farm .

A Edward Androwes [lessee] C : £20 D : Twothirds of a lease of certain lands & tenementsin the village of Dynnyngton [? Dennington], Suff B : Ann Rowse of Dynnyngton, Suff. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Edward Androwes & his assigns. H(b) : From 28 Jan., 31 Eliz [1588/9]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2] F : £20 from precedingyear G : £40. J : [Postscript as under entry[3]].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]10

[6] farm . A Thomas Keys & Thomas Stowe [lessees] C : £77-2-9 , being part [of an original rent] of £179-17-33 . D : Two-thirds of the fixed rents of the free-holders of the manor ("manerii") of Overhall & Netherhall, in the parish of Stansted [Stanstead], Suff.; also two-thirds of the demesne lands of the said manor, and of the various other manors , messuages, mills, lands, tenements & hereditaments , with apps., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under " Item Suff" . B : Roger Marten, latelyof Melford [Long Melford], esq., recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Keys & Thomas Stowe, their executors & assigns. H(b) : From Michaelmas, 31 Eliz [1589] H (c ) H (d): £77-2-9 % H (e ) H (f). H (k ): as in entry [2].

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SUFFOLK 159

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £38-11-5 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 30 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £38-11-5 was paid ... [etc. as above]

And they [Keys & Stowe] are quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]10

[7] farm . A Thomas Keys & Thomas Stowe [lessees ] C : £102-14-6, being part [of an original rent] of £179-17-32 . D : Two-thirds of a capital messuage, commonly called "Coldhamhall "[Coldham Hall], in Staningfeld [Stanningfield], Suff.; and ofthe various other messuages, lands, tenements& hereditaments, with appurtenances, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Item Suff " . B : Robert Rookewood, lately of Staningfeild aforesaid, esq , recusant. H(a), (b), (c), (e), (f) and (k) : as in entry[6]. H(d) : £102-14-6.

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £51-7-3 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on ult Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £51-7-3 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And they [Keys & Stowe] are quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental] [8] farm . A Matthew Cripes [lessee] C : £30, being the remainder [ofan originalrent] of £32-17-9 & two-thirdsof d. D.1 Two-thirds of lands, tenements & hereditaments in Acton, Coverth12 Magna [Great Cornard] & Melford [Long Melford], Suff., ofthe yearly value of £26-13-4 . B.1 : John Daniell, gent , recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of a certain house & lands in Acton aforesaid, let to a certain [ ]13 Hall, ofthe yearly value of£3-6-8 B.2 : William Danyell, gent , recusant H(a) Aforesaid Matthew Cripes, his executors & assigns. H(d) £30 H(b), (c), (e), (f) and (k) : as in entry [6]

J: On 19 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £15 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on ult Oct., 35 Eliz . 14 [1594], £15 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Cripes] isquit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]15

[9] farm . A Henry Marwood [lessee] C : £2-13-4. D : Two-thirds of various lands & tenements, with apps, in Kirley [Kirkley, South Lowestoft], Kesingland [Kessingland], Packefeild [Pakefield] & Carleton Colvile [Carlton Colville], Suff., B : Henry Hubert, gent, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Henry Marwood & his assigns H(b) From 20 March, 32 Eliz [1589/90]. H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry[2]. F : £2-13-4from preceding year. G : £5-6-8.

J : [Postscript as under entry [3]]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]16

[10]farm. A George Lee [lessee] C : £22-17-9 D : Two-

160 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SUFFOLK

thirds of the manor of Cawstons, alias Caxtons, with apps., in Corneard Parva [Little Cornard] ; and of the various other lands & tenements, with apps., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under " Res' Suff"" . B : Robert de Grey, esq. , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid George Lee& his assigns H(b) : From 2 May17, 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) as in entry [2] F £22-17-9 for Nicholas Garnyshe, esq., sheriff of the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Item Suff""), viz. the rentdue from this farm for the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Suff "). G : £45-15-6. :

J And he [Lee] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under "Suff'" , after hisfarm.

[Lease of seized land Rental]18

[11]farm . A Lawrence Hussey, a groom of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £33-19-21 & a half d D : Two-thirds of a tenement called " Bagges" , & 66 acres of freehold land in Linsted Parva, Suff.; and of the various other lands & tenements, with apps. , in Suff , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Res' Suff'" B : Henry Everard, gent. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Lawrence Hussey & his assigns. H(b) From Michaelmas, 32 Eliz. [1590] H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [2] F : £33-19-21 & a half d. from precedingyear G : £67-18-42 . :

J : [Postscript as under entry[3]].

[Further postscript] On 2 May, 36 Eliz [1594], (£16-19-8 deleted) was paid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 25 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], (£16-19-8 deleted),19 was paid . . . [etc. as above].

[Lease of seized land. Rental]20

[12]farm . A Richard Brewster [lessee] C : £40. D : The manor called"Abbas Hall" ,in Cornerd Magna [Great Cornard], alias the manor of Cornerd Magna, Suff.; and the various other messuages, lands, tenements , rectories & hereditaments , with apps., in Suff., specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Res' Suff"": being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of .. B : John Danyell, esq. H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Brewster, his executors & assigns. H(b) From 16 July, 32 Eliz. [1590]. "tothe end ofthe term&forthe term of21 years next following & fully completed " H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) . "during the said period" . H(k) : as in entry [2]. F : £40 for Nicholas Garnyshe, esq., sheriff of the year 33 Eliz. (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Suff'"), viz the rent due from this property for the year 33 Eliz. (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Suff"") And £40 from preceding year [i.e. 34 Eliz.]. G : £120.

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SUFFOLK 161

J: But he [Brewster] ought not to be summoned for £100, i.e. the rent due from this property from Ladyday, 34 Eliz [1592], nor oughtthe said rent to be chargedhenceforth, because Thomas Felton, gent., answers for [a rent of] £43-6-8 per ann. for the same property from the said Ladyday, 34 Eliz. from which date he [Felton] is answerable to the Queen by another commission : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Res' Suff"21 & the dorse of the present rotulet 22 And he [Brewster] owes £20. And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Suff"" .

[Lease of seized land. Rental]23

[13]farm . A Matthew Crippes [lessee] C : £2-17-9 & twothirds of d., being part [of an original rent] of £32-17-9 & two-thirdsof d. D: Two-thirdsofcertain lands& tenements , with apps, in Mellis, of the yearly value of £2-4-5 & twothirds of d.; also of certain lands & tenements, by copyof court-roll, of the yearly value of 13s. 4d B : Christopher Toftwood, gent., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Matthew Crippes, his executors & assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d) : £2-17-9 & two-thirds of d. H(e) H(f). H(k) as in entry [2]. F : £3-11-1 & two-thirdsof d. from previous years. G : £6-8-11 .

J : [Postscript as under entry[3]].

[Seized land Rental]24

[14]farm . A Tenants C : £38-16-0 , being the remainder [of an original rent] of £63-18-32 . D : One tenement & other property[unspecified] B : Robert Jettor, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £1,500, by virtue of a certain Act25 of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) as in entry [2], H(k). F : £38-16-0 from preceding year F £77-12-13d

J: On 16 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £19-8s was paidfrom thisfarm intotheTreasury And on 22 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1593], £19-8s was paid ... [etc. as above]. Andon 2 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £19-8s. was paid ... [etc. as above] Andon 30 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £19-8s. was paid ... [etc. as above]

And they [tenants] have a surplus of 9s . 11 d., which is allowed to the same tenants of this farm for the following year ; cf. following [Recusant] Roll, under "Suff"" . And the account is balanced . 26

[Lease of seized land Rental]27

[15]farm. A William Hunnys, a gentleman of the chapel royal [lessee]. C : £ 10 D : Two-thirds of a certain lease of the manor of Lawshall, Suff , with appurtenances . B : Elizabeth Drurye, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Hunnys, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 11 Nov., 33 Eliz. [1591] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry[2].

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J On 3 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paidfrom thisfarm into theTreasury. And on 7 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Hunnys] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]28

[16]farm. A : Tenants C: £20. D : Two-thirds of a certain annuity of £30 per ann. , issuing from certain lands lying & existing betweenthe townships ofBecclis [Beccles]& Lowstofte [Lowestoft], Suff. B : Richard Norton, gent , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by reason of his recusancy. E(a) : Sir Charles Framlingham, knt , & others

E(b) 1 Oct., 33 Eliz [1591]. E(d) : Cf. preceding[Recusant] Roll, under "Suff'" F : £40 from previous years G : £60

J : [Postscript as under entry[3]]

[Seized land Rental]29

[17]farm . A Tenants C : £33-6-8 D : Two-thirds of the manor of Lawsull[Lawshall] & Wheltham [Welnetham], Suff, with appurtenances. B : Henry Drewrye, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £240, by reason of his recusancy. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [16]. F: £66-13-4 from previous years. G : £100.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £50 , viz. the rent duefrom the above propertyfor this year & the last part of the previous year, nor ought the said rentto be charged after 2 July, 35 Eliz. [1593], because ThomasLee, alias Webber answers for [a rent of] £36 per ann. for the same propertyfrom the said 2 July, 35 Eliz., from which date he [Lee] is answerable to the Queen by another commission ; cf. the dorse ofthepresent rotulet . 30 And they owe £50 . But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [£50], fora reason referred to in thefarm ofThomasLee, alias Webber , farmer of the same property ; cf. dorse of the presentrotulet. 30 And they [tenants] are quit.

[rotulet 21, dorse]

[Seized land. Rental]31

[18]farm. A: Tenants. C : 17s. 9d. & two-thirds of d D : Two-thirds of one tenement & 8 acres of arable, meadow & pasture land in Hicham [Hitcham] B : John Rookewood , gent., recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by reason of his recusancy. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [16] F : £1-15-6 & two-thirds of d. from previous years. G : £2-13-4.

J: [Postscript]Forwhich the sheriffanswers below . 32

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[19]farm . A Ralph Lathome , gent [lessee] C : £21-3-4.

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) SUFFOLK 163

D : The whole manor of Pountney Hall, alias Lancasters, alias Warkes, withall its rights, members& apps , lying& existing in Melles [? Mellis], Burgatt [Burgate], Yaxley, Great Thorneham [Thornham Magna], Little Thorneham [Thornham Parva] & Gislingham, Suff.; together with various other manors, messuages, lands & tenements specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Suff""33 : being two-thirds of the lands & possessions of . B Eve Yaxley, lately of Yaxley, Suff., widow, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid RalphLathome , his executors & assigns H(b) : From 5 July 33 Eliz, [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Suff"" . :

J : On 25 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £10-11-8 was paid from this farm into the Treasury And on 28 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £10-11-8 waspaid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Lathome] is quit.

[Arrearage of rent]34

[20] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a tenement called "Bagges , " and other property F : £32-16-51, ofa certain annual rent of £33-8-2 , viz. the rent due from this propertyfor the year 29 Eliz., ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Res' Suff"" . B : Henry Everard, who is indebted to the Queenin thesum of £1,500, by virtue of the aforesaid Act. 35

J: [Postscript as under entry[18]].

†[Lease of seized land. Rental]36

[21]farm A Thomas Webber, of the Queen's private kitchen [lessee]. C : £36-13-4. D : The whole manor of Milles [? Mells], with all its rights, members & apps , in Suff.; the whole of 2 water-mills, with certain lands & tenements in Milles, Wennesden [? Wenhaston], Walpoole [Walpole], Cookeley & Holton, Suff., or in some of them (" sive eor aliqua"), in the tenure ofWilliam Colston, or his assigns ; and the whole manor of Wrightes, alias Glemhams & Dame Margeries, with all appurtenances , in Cheston [? Chediston], Wissett, Cookeley, Halsworth [Halesworth] & Holton, Suff., (or in some of them), now or lately in the tenure of Cyprian Swallowes & George Meeke, or their assigns, ofwhichWalter Norton, lately of Cheston, Suff , esq , recusant, deceased , was seised in his demesne, in fee-tail ("ut de feodo talliato"), ofthe clear ("ultra omnes repris") yearly value, until Michaelmas , 1595, of£30, and, after the said Michaelmas, ofthe clearyearly value of £50 ; also the whole manor of Blenches & Baventtes, with all its rights, members & apps., in Wissett, Halesworth , Holton & Spexhall, Suff ., (or in some of them), ofthe clear yearly value of £6-13-4 ; [all the above] being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : The said WalterNorton , deceased , whowas indebted to the Queenin various sums ofmoney, viz.

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inthe sum of £180, because he, WalterNorton, forthespaceof 9 months, i.e. between 29 Sept. , 23 Eliz. [1581] & 18 July, 24 Eliz [1582], did not attend any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer on Sundays & other days appointed & usually observedas festivals ("pro diebus fer"") at the time of common prayer & of the celebration of divine service , but abstainedfrom the same , againstthe form ofthestatute in that case made & provided ; and in the sum of £520, for [similar recusancylasting] 26 months, between 1 April, 25 Eliz [1583] & 13 June, 27 Eliz. [1585] ; also in the sum of £120, for another 6 months, between 21 March, 28 Eliz [1585/6] & 12 Sept., next following E(b) : 5 Feb., 36 Eliz. [1593/4]. E(a) : Robert Forth, esq., sheriffofSuffolk E(c) : Forthe satisfaction ofthe said severaldebts ofWalterNorton H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Webber, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 16 March, 36 Eliz. [1593/4] H(c) H(d) : £30 until Michaelmas 1595,& thereafter, £50 (forthe manors ofMilles&Wrightes with the 2 water-mills) according to the terms of this present grant and £6-13-4 (for the manor of Blenches & Baventtes). H(e) H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz. , under " Suff " .

J: On 27 April, 36 Eliz [1594],

£18-6-8 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. Andon 7 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £18-6-8 was paid from this farm, under the title " Norff"" 37 And he [Webber] is quit.

†[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[22]farm . A

Thomas Lee, alias Webber, of the Queen's private kitchen [lessee]. C : £36. D : The whole manor ofMagna Weltham [Great Welnetham] ; the whole messuage ortenement called "Benndes" , with apps, in Magna Wheltham aforesaid ; the whole tenement, with apps , in Magna Wheltham aforesaid, called "Oldhall" , alias "Oldhalls" ; the whole manor of Lawshall, with all apps , in Lawshall & Stanfeild [Stanningfield] & other places & villages in Suff.; also the whole tenement, with apps., called "Hawkyns" , in Lawshall & Stanfeild aforesaid ; [allthe above] being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B : Henry Drewyre, lately of Lawshall, Suff., esq., recusant, deceased. E(b) : 22 Sept., 34 Eliz [1592] E(a) : Nicholas Garnisshe, esq , sheriff of Suffolk. E(c) : For the satisfaction of the same Henry's debt of £220.38 H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Lee, alias Webber his executors & assigns. H(b) From 2 July, 35 Eliz [1593] H(c) H(d) : £20 (for Gt. Welnetham manor) ; £4 (for Benndes property) ; £3 (for Oldhallproperty) ; £4 (for Lawshall manor) ; £5 (for Hawkyns property). H(e). H(k) : Cf. Roll ofthe Enrolment of Leases , 35Eliz., under"Suff " . F : £18 from precedingyear. G : £54. J: But he [Lee, alias Webber] ought not to be summoned for

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SUFFOLK 165 this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz , Hilary_term, "Recorda" section . rotulet[ ] And he [Lee, alias Webber] is quit.

†[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[23]farm . A George Lee, a yeoman of the Queen's private kitchen [lessee]. C : £30. D.1 : Two-thirds of the manor , messuage or farm called "Wrightes" , alias "Glemhams" , in Cheston [? Chediston], Suff., with all appurtenances; of the manor , messuage or farm called "Bavens" , in Cheston aforesaid, with all apps.; of 2 farms, with apps , in Wenhaston & Milles Ende, Suff ., (in one or the other of them), latelyin the tenure ofRobert Denny& John Dowsinge or their assigns ; of the late monastery of Sypton [Sibton], with apps., latelyin the tenure of Edward Chapman, alias Barker, or his assigns ; of the manor, messuage or farm, with apps, called "Frostendenhall" , Suff., lately in the tenure of Thomas Mosse or his assigns ; also of 2 water-mills & of various arable lands, tenements, meadow, grazing & pasture lands, with apps, in Wenhaston, Milles Ende, Cookeley, Holton & Walpoole [Walpole], Suff , latelyin the tenure of William Colson or his assigns. B.1 : HenryNorton, latelyofChaddeston [Chediston] Suff . , gent., recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of the manor, messuage or farm of Milles [? Mells], with apps , in Suff, and of the messuage or farm [called] "Dame Margeries" , with apps, in Hallisworth [Halesworth], Suff B.2 : Katherine Norton, latelyofChaddeston, widow, recusant E(b) : 7 July, 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) John Browne, esq., & others. H(a) : Aforesaid George Lee, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 3 Aug., 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c) H(d) : £5-6-8 (for Wrightes manor) ; £1-6-8 (for Bavens manor) ; £3-6-8 (for the 2 farms in Wenhaston etc.) ; 13s 4d (for Sypton monastery) ; £1-6-8 (for Frostenden Hall) ; £8-13-4 (for the 2 mills etc. in Wenhaston etc.) ; £8 (for Milles manor) ; £1-6-8(for"Dame Margeries") H(e). H(k) as in entry[22] F : £15 from precedingyear G : £45

J: But he [Lee] ought not to be summoned for £30 (the rentfor this year), nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth , because Thomas Webber answers for £36-13-4 per ann as rent for the same property from 16 March, 36 Eliz [1593/4], from which date he [Webber] is answerable to the Queen by another commission, as stated above 39 And he [Lee] owes £15 , for the last part of the precedingyear. But he [Lee] ought not to be summoned for this [debt] because answer has been made to the Queen for the said £15 by John Forrest, esq. , farmer of the same property, by a tally allowed

166 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) SUFFOLK

(" per talliam allocat'") [& recorded] in the farm ofthe same John in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Suff33340 And he [Lee] is quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[24]farm . A

Thomas Felton, gent [lessee ] C : £43-6-8 .

D : The whole manor called by the name of "Abbas Hall" , otherwise called "the manor of Cornard Magna" [Great Cornard], with all its rights, members & apps., in Suff.; and all the messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , inCornardMagna, Waldingefeild Parva [LittleWaldingfield], Myldinge [? Milden], Sudburye, Cornerd Parva [Little Cornard] & Acton, in Suffolk ; and in Wymbysse [Wimbish] near Walden, Horneden [Horndon] & Childerwick , alias Childerdick [Childerditch ] near Horneden, in Essex , together with the various other lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Res" Suff ".41 H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Felton, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 24 May, 34 Eliz [1592], "for a term of 245years next following" H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f). H(k): Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Res' Suff'" .

J: On 3 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £21-13-4 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury, under the name of Peter Whyte. And on 5 Nov., 36Eliz. [1594], £21-13-4 was paid ... [etc. asabove]. And he [Felton] is quit.

[Record ofannual fine paid]

[25] A Edward Rookewood, esq

D : £240 H. E : From 30 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593] to 1 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], i.e. for 1342 [lunar] months

K. G.

P : On 11 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £120 was paid intotheTreasury. And on 7 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £120 was paid into the Treasury. And he is quit.

[Record ofannual finepaid]

[26] A Edward Sullyard, esq C. D : £260. H. E : From 18 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] to 17 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. for 13 [lunar] months K. G.

P : On 3 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £120 was paidinto the Treasury. Andon 18 Nov., 37 Eliz [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. And he is quit.

[Record of annual fine paid]

[27]A Michael Hare, esq C. D : £260 H. E : From 1 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593] to ult Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], i.e. for 13 [lunar] months. K. G.

P : On 15 April, 36Eliz. [1594], £120 was paid into theTreasury. And on 22 Oct., 36Eliz [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. Andhe is quit

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[28] A The same sheriff, viz Robert Forthe, esq

B : [3] £17-15-6 (Stone's tenants) ; [5] £40 (Androwes)

[9] £5-6-8 (Marwood) ; [11] £67-18-4 (Hussey)

[13] £6-8-11 (Crippes) ; [16] £60 (Norton's tenants) ; [18] £2-13-4 (Rookewood's tenants) ; [20] £32-16-5 (Everard's tenants)

C : £232-19-3

D : [3] Stone's tenants answer for £8-17-9 of their above debt of £17-15-6 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under "Suff"" , after theirfarm . 43

[5] Androwes answers for his above debt in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Suff"" , after his farm . 43

[9] Marwood answers for £2-13-4 of his above debt of £5-6-8 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under "Suff"" , afterhisfarm . 43

[13] Crippes answers for his above debt in same roll(loc cit) after hisfarm . 43

[16] Norton's tenants answer for their above debt in same roll (loc. cit.), aftertheirfarm . 43

[18] Rookewood's tenants answer for their above debt in same roll (loc cit), after theirfarm . 45 43

[20] Everard's tenants answer for their above debt in same roll(loc cit), aftertheirfarm . 43

[11] On 16 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £16-19-8 was paid (of a debt of£67-18-43) into theTreasury, underthe nameof Lawrence Hussey. And on 22 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1593], £16-19-8 waspaid ... [etc. as above]. And on 2 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £16-19-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 25 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £16-19-8 was paid .... [etc. as above].

E : And on 4 Dec. , 38 Eliz. [1595], £11-11-2 was paid intothe Treasury by the said sheriff, that being the remainder of his accountfor the [above] recusants . And he [sheriff] has [a surplus].44

[rotulet 5, dorse] (" Res' Suff'") [Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]45

[29]A Mary Sherman, lately of Yaxley, Suff., wife of Anthony Shermanofthesame, gent B. D : £300 F : £240. G. H. J : For 12 months following 1 March, 37 Eliz. [1594/5]. L: £60. M : Tuesday, 6 July, 38 Eliz [1596] N : From date of convictionto 28 Sept. next following, i.e. for 3 [lunar] months

0.

JohnSewell, latelyofthe same , "yoman" [ ]46£300 forthelike. Katherine Hall, wife of John Hall, lately of Fynbarowe [Finborough ], Suff, gent [ ]

168 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

Nicholas Everard, lately of Eye, gent

SUFFOLK owes £300 forthelike. [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in another debt of the said Nicholas Everard, in the following [Recusant] Roll, under"Suff"" . And he is quit.

John Smithe, lately of Redlingfeld [Redlingfield], "husbandman"

John Lyntall, lately of Hawley [Haughley], gent ..

Ann Mannock, lately of Grundesburghe [Grundisburgh], gentlewoman47

Margaret Tunstall, lately of the same , "spinster"

RichardSullyard, latelyofthe same , gent.

Mary Tymperley, lately of Mycklefeild [Mickfield], gentlewoman ?

Ann Tymperley, lately of the same, gentlewoman47

John Dunne, latelyofIpswiche, gent

Joan Bales, lately of Wilby, wife of Thomas Bales of the same , gent

Alex' Foster, lately ofCopdock, gent.

Henry Parker, lately of Dynnyngton [Dennington], "yoman"

Bridget Browne, lately of the same ,

"spinster"

Bridget Moulton, lately of the same , "spinster"

Robert Woodward , lately of Syleham, "yoman"

] £300 for the like

Samuel Dunne, lately of Acton B. D : £180 F :"£120. G. H. J : For 6 months following 1 Aug., 37 Eliz [1595] L, M, N and O as under Mary Sherman, above. John Moulton of Stoake juxta Nayland [Stoke by Nayland], "yoman" . B. D: £80. F: £20. G. H. J : For 1 month following 1 Jan., 38 Eliz [1595/6] L, M, N and O : as under Mary Sherman, above

Thomas Bragge, alias Tynkes, lately of Melford [Long Melford], "yoman"

Henry Daniell, latelyofActon, gent

MargaretDaniell, his wife

Margaret Marten, lately of Melford, "spinster" £80 for the like.

GeorgeFord, latelyofthe same, "yoman"

Elizabeth Drurye ofLawshull [Lawshall], widow

William Knappinge, lately of the same , "yoman"

Bridget Browne, lately of the same , "spinster"

Ann Rolffe, latelyofthe same, "spinster" ( )

] £80 for the like

Edmund Talkett, lately of Bury St. Edmunds ; parishofSt. James

William Tyller, lately of Stanyngfeld [Stanningfield], "yoman"

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 6 James I, under " Item Suff"" , in another debt of the same William

Ann Ludbrocke, lately of the same , "spinster"

Dorothy Flower, lately of the same , "spinster" And he isquit.

] £80 for the like.

Nicholas Rookwood, lately of Ewston [Euston], gent. [Postscript]But he oughtnotto be summonedforthis [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 2 James I, under " Item Suff"" , in another debt ofthe same Nicholas

Elizabeth Knapton, lately of Melford "spinster" Andhe isquit. [ ] £80 for thelike.

Clemence Payne, lately of the same , "spinster" [ ] Owen Mighell, lately of Ewston, "laborer" . "B. "D" : £80

F: £20. G. H. J: For 1 monthfollowing 1 June, 38 Eliz. [1596] L, M, N and O : as under Mary Sherman, above .

'Text as C.R.S. ,XVIII, p 309, 1. 14 seq to"Regine huiusinSuff'" "Not "Bedingfeld" , as in Rec Roll, No. 1. (op cit). 3"septuagint' librar' in MS ; probably an error for "septingentarum librarum" (£700) as in Rec Roll, No. 1 (op cit)

4Text as op. cit., p 310, 1. 13 seq to " Act' pred' 51.e. , the Act 28 Eliz , cap . 6. Cf. entry [28], D. The marginal note "oni" ([thesheriff]is charged unless, ... ) is missingthroughout this Suffolk Text as op. cit., p 310 , 1. 17 seq to "equales porc' 8Cf . entry [21], below Text as op . cit , p. 310 , 10Cf . op. cit., p. 311, 1. 4 seq 11Text as op cit., 12Sic in MS , for

account ibid'" . 1. 33 seq p 311 , 1. 36 seq. to "equales porc' ibid" . "Conerth" . Christian name

15Text as 16Text as op. cit , p 312, 1. 23 seq to 17Not "March" , as in Rec Roll, No. 1 19It will be 18Text as op cit , p. 312, 1. 40 seq.

13The brackets indicate a space left in MS for 14Sic in MS, for "36 Eliz" . op cit., p 312 , 1. 10seq "equales porc' ibid'" . (op cit).

21Cf . op cit , p. 321, 1. 35 seq . 23Text as op. cit , p 313, 1. 28 seq. to 24Text as op cit, p 314, 1. 1 seq

26"Et eq'" in MS ; an abbreviationof 27Text as op. cit., p 314 , 1. 7 seq. to 28Text as op. cit , p 314, 1. 20 seq.

20Text found that these deleted sums have been transferredto the sheriff's arrears (entry [28], D) andtheir paymentenrolledthere as op cit , p 313, 1. 13 seq. 22See entry [24], below "equales porc' ibid'" 251.e. , 28 Eliz ., cap 6. "Et equivalens est" . "equales porc' ibid'"

170 ROLL2. MICH. 35-36ELIZ (1593-4)

to " capt' & seisit'" " sicut cont' ibid'" . op. cit., p 315, 1.1 seq to " capt' & seisit' ibid'" 33Cf. op. cit., p 315, 1. 10 seq

entry [28], D. op cit, p 309, 1. 44seq [4], above.

&SUSSEX

29Text as op cit, p. 314, 1. 32 seq to 30See entry [22], below.

35Cf. entry [14], B.

31Text as 32Cf . 34Cf

36Cf. entry

37The word " Norff'" here possibly repeats an 38Sic in MS :

39See entry [21], above 40Cf . error in the records of the Clerk of the Pells. cf. "£240" in entry [17]B op cit , p 310, 1. 17 (postscript). 41Cf . op cit , p 321, 1. 35 seq. The recusant (not named in text) is John Danyell, esq.; cf. entry [12], above 42"Tresdecim" in MS, for "duodecim" (twelve). 43Note in L. margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur") Thesheriff (Forthe) was thereforedischarged of this amount 44"Et hab'" in MS The surplus amountsto 2 d 45All the items under this heading are bracketed , L., inMSwiththenote : Let a commission be issued("fi[at]Commissio"). 46The brackets here & in items below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word " deb'" (owes) Cf. Introd, p xcix 47 generos'" in MS : cf. p 157 , note 31

[rotulet22]

[Preamble]

SURREY and SUSSEX

("Surr' Sussex'"')¹

[1] Sir Nicholas Parker, knt , sheriff ofthis county (" huius Com'") from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., to Mich. , 36 Eliz. , renders . . . [etc. as Berks [1]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[2] farm . A RichardBellingham, gent [lessee] C : £55-11-2. D: Two-thirds of the manor of Horton [in Upper Beeding, Sussex], with all its rights, members & appurtenances, of the yearly valueof40marks ; togetherwiththevarious other manors , messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in the said county, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz , under "Surr' Sussex'" . B : Edward Banister , gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid RichardBellingham, his executors& assigns. H(b) : From 6 March, 31 Eliz [1588/9] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Surr' Sussex'" "

J: On 26 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £27-15-7 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £27-15-7 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Bellingham] is quit.

[Seized land Rental]³

[3] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of fresh marshland in Wessham [Westham , Sussex] C : £2-6-8. B : Henry Norton, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue of the aforesaid Act E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Surr' Sussex'" . F : £2-6-8 from precedingyear G : £4-13-4.

[Seized land. Rental]5

[4] farm. A : Tenants. D : Two-thirds of a certain annuity or annual rent of £4 issuing from certain lands in Hoe [Hooe , Sussex], in the tenure of Thomas Hais. C : £2-13-4 B : Agnes Pilcher, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of£80, byvirtue ofthe aforesaid Act.4 E(d) : as in entry [3]. F £2-13-4from preceding year G : £5-6-8.

J: For whichthe sheriffanswers on the dorse ofthepresentrotulet." [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged unless ,.

[Seized land. Rental]8

[5] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a messuage & 80 acres of land in Aysshington [Ashington , Sussex], Worminghurst [Warminghurst , Sussex], & Thackham [Thakeham , Sussex] ; and of various other lands & tenementsin "the said county" . C6 £15-11-11 . B : Nicholas Wolff, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue of the aforesaid Act. E(d): as in entry [3] F: £15-11-1 d. from preceding year G : £31-2-2 .

J : [Postscripts as under entry [4]]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]⁹

[6] farm . A Edward Gage, esq [lessee ] C : £75-6-8 D : Two-thirds of the manor of Marisfeld [Maresfield, Sussex], with all its rights, members & apps., in Sussex ; together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., specifiedin the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under "AdhucItem Sussex'" . B: LadyElizabeth Gage, widow, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Edward Gage, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 4 Aug., 32 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) as in entry[3], E(d) F : £75-6-8from preceding year. G : £150-13-4. :

J: On 18 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £37-13-4 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. And on 8 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £37-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 8 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £37-13-4was paid . . . [etc. as above] And he [Edw Gage] owes £37-13-4 . But he [Gage] ought not to be summoned for this [sum] nor ought the said rent to be chargedhenceforth, by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz. , Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he [Gage] is quit

[Lease of seized land. Rental]10 [7] farm . A Richard Olyve, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £20-16-8 D : Two-thirds of the manor of Dichelinge Garden, estimated to contain 120 acres, lying &

172 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) SURREY AND SUSSEX

existing in Dichelinge [Ditchling, Sussex], in the countyofSurrey & Sussex, togetherwiththe various other manors, lands & tenements, with apps , in the said county, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Adhuc Item Sussex'" . B : Thomas Gage of Alceston [Alciston, Sussex], gent , recusant.

H(a) Aforesaid Richard Olyve, his executors & assigns. H(b) From 21 May, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c). H(d) : as C.

H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [3], E(d) F : £20-16-8 from preceding year. G : £41-13-4.

J: [Postscripts as under entry[4]]

[Lease of seized land

Rental]¹¹ [8] farm . A: John Wattes [lessee ] C : £66-3-11 & twothirds of d. D : Two-thirds of a capital messuage & park, estimated to contain 100 acres of land, in Horssham [Horsham , Sussex] ; together with the various other manors, messuages, lands & tenements, with apps, in Sussex, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under "Adhuc Item Sussex'" . B : Katherine , Lady Copley, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid John Wattes, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 29 July, 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c). H(d) as C . 12 H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry[3], E(d). F : £66-3-11 & two-thirdsof d .from preceding year. G: £132-7-10d. & two-thirds of d.

66

J: And he [Wattes] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz. , under Surr' Sussex " , afterhisfarm .

[Lease of seized land

Rental]13

[9] farm . A: Thomas Palgrave& John Murfyne[lessees] C : £10.

D: Two-thirds of certain lands, with apps. , in Brightlinge or Burwasshe [Burwash], Sussex ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps. , in Sussex. B : William Assheborneham , esq. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Palgrave & John Murfyne, their executors & assigns

H(b) From 2 Dec., 32 Eliz [1589] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : as in entry [3], E(d). F : £10 from preceding year. G : £20.

J : But they [Palgrave& Murfyne] oughtnot to besummoned for £10, i.e. the rentfor part of this year & of the preceding year (£5foreach year), nor be chargedhenceforthwith £5 ofthe said £10 per ann. (for a moiety ofthe aforesaidproperty), by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they owe £10

[Furtherpostscripts as under entry[4]]

[Seized land Rental]14

[10]farm. A Tenants. B : Elizabeth, Lady Gage, recusant .

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36ELIZ. (1593-4) SURREY AND SUSSEX 173

C : £26-13-4. D: Two-thirds of certain lands in Alciston [Sussex], ofthe yearly value of £40. E(a) : Henry Nevell, esq., & others E(b) : 1 Oct., 34 Eliz [1592]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz., Hilary term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. F : £26-13-4from precedingyear. G: £53-6-8.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, for a reason referred to in thefarm ofEdward Gage, esq . 15

And they [tenants] are quit.

[Seized land. Rental]16

[11]farm . A Tenants B : Lancelot Gildridge, gent , recusant

C : £5-6-8. D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenementsin Bedingham [Beddingham, Sussex], of the yearly value of £8 E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[10]. F : £5-6-8 frompreceding year G : £10-13-4 .

J: [Postscripts as under entry[4]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]17

[12]farm. A : John Johnson, gent [lessee] C : £3-6-8 D: Two-thirds of a messuage or tenement, and of certain lands in Arlington, Sussex, called "Cobles" , estimated to contain, inall, 30 acres, ofthe yearly value of£5 B : Thomas Tyndall of Arlington, Sussex, "yoman" , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Johnson, his executors & assigns H(b): From 2 March, 34 Eliz. [1591/92] H(c). H(d) : as C.

H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under 66 Sussex'" .

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[13]farm . A William Cordell, master cook of the Queen's kitchen [lessee ]. C : £106-8-10 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of the manor of Assheborneham [Ashburnham, Sussex], with appurtenances; together with the various other lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in Sussex , specifiedin the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Sussex'" 18

B : John Assheborneham , esq., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Cordell, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 30 Nov., 33 Eliz , [1590]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) as in entry [12]. F : £319-6-8 from previous years.

G : £425-15-7 & two-thirds of d.

J : [Postscripts as under entry[4]].

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]

[14]farm. A William Cordell, master cook of the royal kitchen [lessee] C : £10. D : The whole manor ofAssheborneham ,

174 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) SURREY AND SUSSEX

with all its rights, members& apps , in Sussex ; togetherwith the various other manors, lands & tenements, with apps. , in Sussex , specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Sussex' 19 being a parcel ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : John Assheborneham , esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Cordell, his executors & assigns H(b): From 12 May, 34 Eliz. [1592] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry [12] F : £15 from previous years . G : £25.

J: On 8 Nov., 34 Eliz [1592], £5 was paid from thisfarm into the treasury. And on 4 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £5 waspaid.

[etc. as above]. And on 8 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £5 was paid .. [etc. as above]. And on 19 June, 36 Eliz [1594], £5 was paid [etc. as above]. And on 15 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £5 was paid.. [etc. as above] And he [Cordell] is quit

[Lease ofseized land. Rental] [15]farm A Thomas Henslowe, esq. [lessee]. C : £74-1-61 , a half d. & two-thirdsof 1d. D : Two-thirdsofthemanorof Wiltinge, Sussex, with apps , containing 300 acres ; together with the various other manors, lands & tenements, with apps, in Sussex, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Sussex'" , 20 also two-thirds of a capital messuage & certain lands called "Beamondes" , inthe parish ofFarlington, Hants., together with the various other manors, messuages, lands tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in Hants , similarly specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Sussex'"20

B : Thomas Pownde of Farlington, Hants., gent , recusant. H(a) Aforesaid Thomas Henslowe, his executors & assigns.

H(b) From 15 Feb., 35 Eliz. [1592/3]. H(c). H(d) : as C.

H(e). H(k) as inentry[12].

J : On 24 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £36 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury And on 7 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £38-1-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Henslowe] is quit.

[Lease of seized land. Rental]21 [16]farm . A John Salysbury, one ofthe Queen'sservants [lessee].

C : £13-6-8 . D : Two-thirds of a third part ofthe manorof Eastborne [Eastbourne], [East] Sussex. B : Alice Gildridge, lately of Eastborne aforesaid, "spinster" , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Salisbury, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 3 Oct., 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e)

H(f). H(k) as in entry[3], E(d). F : £13-6-8 from preceding year G : £26-13-4. :

J : [Postscripts as under entry[4]].

*[Arrearage ofrent]

[17] A Tenants B : Mary Scotte of Iden, "spinster" . F : £6-13-4, being part[ofan annual rent] of£13-6-8, viz the rent due from the date of seizure until Michaelmas next following, i.e., 35 Eliz. [1593] D : Two-thirdsof the manor ofRyver& Flott, with apps , in Playden [Sussex], in the tenure of Ann Martyn, widow ; of a messuage, with apps , in the tenure22 of Thomas Austen ; of a messuage, with apps., in Peasemarshe [Peasmarsh ], in the tenure of Thomas Baker ; and ofvarious parcels of fresh marsh-land in Peasemarshe aforesaid, in the tenure ofJohn Haukyns [or Hankyns ?], gent E(b) : 25 Aug., 35 Eliz. [1593]. E(a) : Edmund Pelham, esq., & others E(c) Recusancy of the same Mary E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz, Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] J: [Postscripts as under entry [4]]

[rotulet 22, dorse]

*[Seized land. Rental] [18]farm . A Tenants B : George Faukes of Hartynge [Harting], Sussex, gent C : £16 D : Two-thirds of certain lands, tenements& hereditaments in Kingston[-upon-Thames], Surrey, of the yearly value of£4 ; and of a certain lease of a messuage & 120 acres of arable & pasture land, with apps, called "Holtfarme" , in the parish of Hartynge aforesaid, ofthe value of £20. E(b) : 2 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(a) : Thomas Bisshoppe, esq., & others E(c) : Recusancy of the same George E(d) : as in entry [17] [L. Margin] Supersedeas23

[Seized goods & chattels]

[19] Sir Walter Covert, knt., sheriff, owes £9-18-4, charged upon himself , and by him received ("et per ipsum recept'"), for the price or value of the goods & chattels of the aforesaid George Faukes, recusant, taken into the Queen's hands and returned (" & retornat'") by the aforesaid commissioners, as statedabove.24

[Postscripts] And he [Covert] answers in thefollowing [Recusant] Roll, under " Surr' Sussex'" . [L. Margin] Supersedeas 23

*[Seized land. Rental]

[20]farm . A: Tenants B : Joan Ockenden of Westfirles [West Firle, Sussex], "spinster" C : £3-6-8 D : Twothirds of various customary lands (" terr' custum'") in West-

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furle E(b) 5 Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593] E(a) : Edmund Pelham , esq., & others. E(c) : Recusancy of the same Joan E(d) : as in entry [17]

J: For which the sheriffanswers below. 25 [L. Margin] [Thesheriff] is charged, unless . ...

*[Seized land. Rental]

[21]farm . A

Tenants. B : William Assheborneham , gent. C : 13s. 4d D : Two-thirdsoflands & tenementsin Asheborneham aforesaid E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [20]. E(c): Recusancy ofthe same William

J : [Postscripts as under entry[20]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[22]farm . A

Tenants B : ThomasAsheborneham . C : 13s 4d

D: Two-thirds of lands & tenements in Asheborneham aforesaid. E(b), (a) and (d) : as in entry [20] E(c) : Recusancyof the same Thomas .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[20]].

[†Lease of seized land. Rental]

[23]farm . A: Walter Windesor, esq [lessee ]. C : £13-6-8. D : The whole manor of Ryver & Flott, with all its rights, members & appurtenances in Sussex, and a messuage & barn built within & upon the said manor ; also all the 12 acres of fresh marsh-land & the 10 acres of wood-land belonging & pertaining (" spectan' & pertinen'") to the same manor , messuage & barn in the parish of Playdon [Pleyden], Sussex , now in the tenure of Ann Martin, widow, or her assigns, of which Mary Scotte of Iden Sussex , "spinster" , recusant, is is seised in her demesne, freehold (" ut de libero tenemento"), forthe term of her life ; of the clear yearlyvalue of £4 : the whole of another messuage & 12 acres of pasture land , with apps., in the parish of Iden aforesaid, in the tenure ofThomas Austen, being a parcel of the manor of Mott, of the clear yearly value (charges deducted) of £1 the wholeof another messuage, [with] an orchard, a garden, 10 acres of pasture land, 7 acres offresh marsh-land and 15 acres ofwood-land, with apps., in the parish ofPeasemarsshe [Peasmarsh ], Sussex , now in the tenure of Thomas Baker, or his assigns, being a parcel of the said manor of Mott, of the clear yearly value (charges deducted) of £1-13-4. Also the whole of a parcel of fresh marsh-land, with apps , estimated to contain 20 acres : the whole of another parcel of fresh marsh-land, with apps., estimated to contain 11 acres the whole of6 pieces or parcels of pasture and brookland (" terr' pastur' & brocianglice voc' brookes"), known by the name or names of"Le Ripes" ; of

ROLL2. MICH 35-36ELIZ (1593-4)

another parcel of brookland ("terr' broci"), estimated to contain 9 acres ; of another parcel of brook-land, called "Brewers Brooke" ; of another parcel of brook-land , called "The Milpine Brooke" the whole of 2 parcels of pasture land, called "Le Strakes" ; ofthe wood called "Copwood"& ofthe wood called "The Milpine Wood" , all in thesaid parish of Peasemarshe, being a parcel ofthe said manor ofMott, and now in the tenure of John Haukins [or Hankins ?], gent ; of the clear yearly value (charges deducted) of £6-13-4: all the above propertybeing two-thirds of the lands & possessions of ... B : The aforesaid Mary Scotte of Iden aforesaid, Sussex, "spinster" , recusant. E(b) : 25 Aug. , 35 Eliz [1593]. E(a) Edmund Pelham, esq. , & others H(a) : Aforesaid Walter Windesor, his executors & assigns. H(b): From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz, under Sussex'" . " :

J: On 3 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £6-13-4 was paid from thisfarm into the treasury. And on 22 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £6-13-4 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Windesor] is quit.

[Seized goods& chattels]

[24] Thomas Bowyer, Richard Lewkenor & John Savile, esqs , owe £13 for Thomas Pelham, esq., late sheriff(cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Item Sussex'"), viz a sum which they have taken ("quas [libras] ceperunt") of the goods & chattels of Nicholas Wolffe, recusant ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz. , under "Adhuc Item Sussex' [Postscripts as under entry[20]]

[Seized goods & chattels]

[25] The same Thomas, Richard & John owe £21-6-8for the same late sheriff[ref as in entry[24]], which sum ("quos" [denarios]) theyhavetakenofthe goods & chattels of Elizabeth Croucher , recusant ; cf .. [ref as in entry [24]]. [Postscripts as under entry[20]].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[26] The same Thomas, Richard & John owe £1-13-4 for the same latesheriff, which sum theyhave taken ofthe goods& chattels ofHenry Chadderton, recusant; cf .. [ref as in entry[24]]

[Seized goods & chattels]26

[27] William Chaderton of Garneley [Earnley], Sussex , gent , owes £10 for the same late sheriff [Pelham] . . [ref as in entry[24]], which he [William] owes to Henry Chaderton, recusant , and

178 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36ELIZ (1593-4) SURREY AND SUSSEX

[which] is due to the Queen by reason ofthe recusancyofthe same Henry; cf .. [ref. as in entry[24]]. [Postscripts as under entry[20]].

[Record of annual finepaid]

[28] A John Gage, esq C. D : £260 H. E : From ult Oct., 35 Eliz. [1593] to 30 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. for 13 [lunar] months. K. G.

P : On 8 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £120 was paid into theTreasury. Andon 15 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £140 was paid into theTreasury. And he is quit

[Statement ofsheriff'sarrears]

[29] A The same sheriff, viz . Sir Nicholas Parker, knt.

B : [4] £5-6-8 (Pilcher's tenants) : [5] £31-2-2 (Wolff's tenants) ; [7] £41-13-4 (Olyve) ; [9] £10 (Palgrave & Murfyne) ; [11] £10-13-4 (Gildridge's tenants) ; [13] £425-15-7 & two-thirds of d. (Cordell) ; [16] £26-13-4 (Salysbury) ; [17] £6-13-4(Scott'stenants) ; [20] £3-6-8 (Ockenden'stenants) ; [21] 13s 4d (Will Asheborneham's tenants) ; [22] 13s 4d (Thos Asheborneham's tenants) ; [24] £13 (Bowyer etc.) ; [25] £21-6-8 (Bowyer etc.)

C : £608-11-11 & two-thirdsof d.

[26] £1-13-4 (Bowyer etc.) ; [27] £10 (Will . Chaderton)

D : [7] Olyve answers below27 for £33-13-4 of his debt of £41-13-4.28

[13] Cordellanswers for his above debt in [Recusant] Roll, 37Eliz , under " Surr' Sussex"" , after hisfarm. 28

[20] Ockenden's tenants answer for their above debt in same roll (loc cit.) after their farm. 28

[21] Will. Asheborneham's tenants answer for their above debtin same roll(loc cit.), after theirfarm. 28

[22]Thos Asheborneham's tenants answer for their above debt in same roll (loc cit.), after theirfarm. 28

[24] [25], [26] Bowyer etc. answer for £36 [i.e. the sum of their 3 above debts] in same roll [loc cit ), in three separate particulars . 28

[27] Will. Chadertonanswers for his above debt in same roll (loc. cit ) 28

[5] Wolff'stenantsanswer for their above debt in same roll (loc cit.), after theirfarm 28

[11] Gildridge's tenantsanswer for their above debt in same roll (loc cit.) aftertheirfarm. 28

E : And he [sheriff] owes £56-13-4 . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under" Surr' Sussex'" .

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[30]farm. A Francis Cotton, esq [lessee] C : £22-16-8 .

D : Two-thirdsof the manors of Weltinge & Hollington, with appurtenances , in Sussex, together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements specified in the preceding ; [Recusant] Roll, under " Sussex' B : Thomas Pownde , latelyofFarlington, Hants , gent , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Francis Cotton, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 20 Feb., 33 Eliz. [1590/91]. H(c) H(d): as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Sussex"" . F : £45-13-4 from previous years . G : £68-10-1 .

J: But he [Cotton] ought not to be summoned for £45-13-5 , being the rent for this & the precedingyear nor ought the said rent to be charged after 15 Feb., 35 Eliz [1592/3], because Thomas Henslowe , esq., answers in another part of the present rotulet30 for an annual rent of £74-1-6 , a half-farthing and two-thirds of 1 pennyfor the same premises, togetherwith other property,from thesaid 15 Feb., 35Eliz, andis thenceforthanswerable to the Queen by another commission . And he [Cotton] owes £22-16-8 . And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz, under "Surr' Sussex'" .

[Arrearage ofrent]

[31]A Richard Olyve, a yeoman of the chamber royal [lessee], owes £33-13-4 for the sheriff, as stated above, 31 viz. of a certain annual rent of£20-16-8 D : Two-thirdsofthe manor of Dichelinge Garden, and of a moiety of all the lands, tenements & profits of the manor of Ersham, alias Hailesham , in Harlesham [Hailsham], Sussex B : Thomas Gage, gent., recusant F : The above rent [£33-13-4] being the part due from the manor of Ersham, alias Hailesham aforesaid, for this year, 36 Eliz ,& the preceding year, as may be seen in another part of the present rotulet ; 31 cf. also the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Adhuc Item Sussex'" .

J: But he [Olyve] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz , Michaelmas term , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] And he [Olyve] is quit.

[rotulet2, dorse]

(" Res' Sussex'")

[Enrolments of estreatedconvictions for recusancy]

[32] 32A James Lynacre of the parish of St. Mary Overyes, in Southwarke, Surrey, esq. B. D : £60 F : £20. G. H.

J: For 1 monthfollowing 1 Jan. , 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. L : £40.

M : Monday, 16 Feb., 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. N: From date of convictionto 12 April next following i.e., for 2 [lunar] months. 0.

William Cooke of the same parish and county, gent.

Robert Adyne ofthe same , gent..

Edward Cottrington of the same , gent.

Richard Dowse ofthe same , "yoman"

David Ryngsted, "yoman"

Ralph Emerson , "yoman"

John Brigges of the same , "yoman"

John Moore of the same, "yoman" .

William Thornbury of the same, "yoman"

John Lillye ofthe same , "yoman"

Thomas Bassett of the "yoman"

William Lokyer of the "yoman"

ClementHale ofthe same , "yoman"

John Ayre of the same , "yoman"

,

] same , ]

Ann Glascock, of the same, "spynster"

Alice Cole ofthe same, "spynster" "Christiana" Ringwood of the same , "spynster"

Ann Byrde ofthesame, "spynster"

JaneClitterbuck of the same, "spynster"

JoanTwyneofthe same"spynster"

A: Richard Page ofNewicke, Sussex, "yoman" . B. D: £60.

F: £40.34 G. H. J : For 1 month following 1 June, 37 Eliz. [1595]. L : £40. M : Monday, 23 Feb. , 38 Eliz. [1595/6]. N : From date of conviction to 19 April next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months O.

"Licia" Temple of Estgrinsted [East Grinstead], Sussex , "spinster" [ ] £60 forthelike.

Alice Quested of Westham, Sussex, "spynster"

Thomas Abrooke of Alfriston, Sussex , [ ] [ ]

gent

35A: Anthony Copley, lately of Horsham, Sussex, gent B. D : £80 F: £20 G. H. J: For 1 monthfollowing 1 Jan. , 38 Eliz [1595/6] L : £60 M : Friday, 9 July, 38 Eliz [1596]. N : From date of conviction to 1 Oct. next following, i.e. for 3 [lunar]months O.

John Copley, latelyof the same , gent.

Elizabeth Woodward of Lodsworth, Sussex, "spinster"

Katherine Diggins, lately of the same , "spinster"

Thomas Brooke , lately of Alfriston, Sussex, "yoman" [ ] £80 for thelike.

]

2. MICH. 35-36ELIZ. (1593-4)

ThomasinaMathiman36wife ofCustance ("Custancie") Mathiman, lately of Pevensey, Sussex , "spinster"

Alice Anested ,37 wife of Daniel Anested,37 lately of Westham , Sussex, "spinster"

Richard Page ,lately ofNewick , Sussex , "yoman"

] £80 for the like. [ ] , 22 [ ]

Ann Showsewell , lately of Echingham [Etchingham] Sussex, "spinster" [ ]

William Malham of Wartlinge, Sussex , "laborer" .

Joan Alcherne [? or Altherne], wife of Thomas Alcherne, lately of Pyecombe, Sussex , "spinster"

] [ ] ,

Surrey& Sussexformeda single sheriffwickuntil1635 XVIII, p 325, 1. 31 seq. "virtute Act' pred'" . as op cit., p 327, 1. 1 seq. in this roll (omitted in Rec [29], D. or E.

op cit , p 327, 1. 28 seq. as op cit, p. 328 , 1. 27 seq. omitted in the present roll

3Text as op cit , p 326, 1. 27 seq. to I.e., Act 28 Eliz., cap 6. 5Text "The word "deb'" (owes) is present

Roll, No. 1 : op cit)

Cf.C.R.S. , Cf. entry °Cf. 11Text

8Text as op cit , p 327, 1. 21 seq. 10Cfop. cit., p. 328, 1. 8 seq 12" unum ob " (loc. cit. , 1. 38) is 13Cf. op cit., p 328, 1. 43 seq. 15Entry [6], above. 16Text

17Cf . op cit , p 330, 1. 43 seq . 20Cf op cit, p. 333, 1. 33 seq. 22The words "in tenura" are

14Cf op cit., p 329, 1. 29 seq . as op cit, p 329 , 1. 34 seq. 18Cf. op cit , p 332, 1. 33 seq 21Cf . op. cit , p 335, 1. 25 seq. repeated in MS : probably the location of this messuage (i.e. Iden, Sussex ; cf. entry [23], below) has thus been omitted by a clerical oversight 23Title of a writ for stay ofproceedings 25Cf.entry[29], D. or E. 24Cf. 26Text

30See entry[18], E(b), (a)& (d) of this entry : "Willelmus Chaderton de Garneleyin Com' pred' generos' deb' £10 pro eodem nupervic' ibidemviz, quas deb' Henr' Chaderton Recusan' & Regine debit' racione Recusanc' eiusdem Henr' ibidem :" apparently, an instance (rare) of assignment to the crown of a financial debt owed to a recusant and includedin his "personalchattels" (cf.Wharton,LawLexicon"personal property") 27See entry [31]. 28Note in L. margin : It is answered ("respondet]ur"). The sheriff (Parker) was therefore discharged of this amount. 29Cf. op cit , p 329, 1. 39 seq. entry [15], above . 31See entry [29], D. 32This & the following items, to Thomas Abrooke, inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). 33The bracketshere & in items belowindicatea space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word " deb'" (owes) Cf. Introd. , p. xcix 34Sic in MS, for£20. 35This & the remaining items are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued 36"Mathewman" in later rolls "Quested" ? Cf. item above .

37Sic : for

182 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) WARWICKS

[rotulet23]

[Preamble]

WARWICKSHIRE("Warr"")

[1] George Devereux, esq , sheriffofthis countyfrom Michaelmas , 35 Eliz.,toMich, 36Eliz. , renders ... [etc. as Berkshire[1]]

[Seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Tenants C : £6-13-4

D : A messuage, with appurtenances, in Barkeswell [Berkswell], and other property: ofthe lands& tenementsof ... B : Thomas Higginson, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260 , by virtue of a certain Act2 of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under Warr'" . " . F £6-13-4 from preceding year G : £13-6-8. "

[Seized land. Rental]

[3] farm . A Tenants C : £6-13-4

D : Two-thirds of one tenement & of 4 cottages in Barkeswell, Warwicks B : Thomas Higgenson, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by reason of his recusancy E(a) : Thomas Dabrigcourt, esq , & others E(b) : 20 Oct., 33 Eliz [1591]. E(d) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Warr""3 F : £13-6-8 from previous years G : £20

[Seized land. Rental]4

[4] farm. A Tenants C : £6-13-4 D : Two-thirds of one tenement& ofvarious landsin Tanworthe. B : ThomasGreene of Tamworthe [Tanworth], "yoman" , recusant,who is indebted tothe Queen in the sum of£40, byreasonof his recusancy E(a), (b)and (d): as in entry [3]. F : £6-13-4 from precedingyear. G : £13-6-8.

[Seized land. Rental]5

[5] farm . A Tenants C : £3-6-8 D : Two-thirdsof certain customary lands in Rowington B : Margaret Atwood , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £40 , by reason of her recusancy E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [3]. F : £6-13-4from previous years. G : £10.

[Seized land. Rental]6

[6] farm. A: Tenants. C : £9-8-10. D : Two-thirds of various lands and tenements, with appurtenances, in Wood Bevington. B : Elizabeth Ferrers, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £40, by reason of her recusancy. E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry[3]. F : £18-17-8 from previous years. G : £28-6-6 .

The Act 28 Eliz. , 5Text 'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 344, 1. 15 seq. cap 6. Text as op cit., p 344, 1. 23 seq. to" capt' et seisit"" "Text as op cit , p. 344 , 1. 34 seq to" sicut cont' ibid' as op. cit., p 344, 1. 42 seq to " capt' & seisit' ibid'" . op cit , p 345, 1. 7 to " capt' & seisit' ibid"" .

Text as

[rotulet 26]

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

WESTMORLAND

("Westmorland")

[Seized land Rental]¹

[1] farm. A Tenants C : £2 D : Various lands & tenements lying & existing in the manor of Burton [in Warcop], Westmld.; ofthe lands & tenementsof ... B : Andrew Hilton , gent., of the city of Karlion' [Carlisle], Cumberland, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £300, by virtue ofa certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct. , 28 Eliz. E(d): Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Westmorl'" , where the above rent is demanded ("exigitur") under thenameofGeoffrey Lawson & others F : £ 17 from previous years. G: £19

J: For £2 of which the sheriff answers below . And they [tenants] owe £17

[L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedfor this year's rent only, unless .... 4

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[2] farm . A John Budgell [lessee ] C : £11-10-10. D.1 : Two-thirds of the manor of Helbeck [? Hillbeck ], with all its rights & appurtenances; together with the other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Westmld , specified in preceding[Recusant] Roll, under" Westmorl'".5 B.1 : Henry Blinkinsopp of Burghe subtus Staynemore [Brough-underStainmore], Westmld , esq., recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of the manor of Burton [in Warcop], with all its rights& apps., and of various other messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in Burtonand Hilton [in Murton], Westmld B.2 Andrew Hilton of Burton, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Budgell H(b) : From Michaelmas, 34 Eliz [1592] H(c). H(d) as C., i.e. £7-10-10for Blinkinsopp's property, and £4 for Hilton's property. H(e). H(f). H(k): Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Westmorland" . F: £11-10-10 from preceding year G : £23-1-8. :

[3]

[Arrearage ofrent]

A : Tenants. B: Henry Blenkynsoppe, esq , recusant . D : Two-thirds of the manor of Helbecke, with apps., and of one watermill there ; together with various other messuages , mills, lands & tenementsin BurghtsubtusStannymore [Broughunder-Stainmore], Racebeck [Raisbeck], Southvegin & elsewhere ("et al""), Westmld F : £7-10-10, being the rentfor one full year ending at Michaelmas, 34 Eliz [1592] E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Westmorl'".6

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 37 Eliz , Easter term, "Recorda" section , rotulet[ ]. And they [tenants] are quit

[4]

-

[Arrearage of rent]

A : Tenants B : Andrew Hilton, gent., recusant D :

D : Two-thirds of the manor of Burton, with apps , F : 7£4, being the rentfor one full year ending at Michaelmas, 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Westmorl'"8

J: For which the sheriffanswers below.⁹

[Statement of sheriff's arrears].

[5] A The same sheriff, viz George, Earl ("Comes") of Cumberland

B : [1] £2 (Hilton's tenants) : [4] £4 (Hilton's tenants).

C : £6.

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under " Westmorl'" .

[Enrolment of estreated conviction for recusancy]

[6] A: Thomas Pickeringe, latelyofCrosthwayte, gent B. D:£60

F: £20 G. H. J: For 1 monthfollowing 3 May, 30Eliz

[1588]. L : £40 M : 8 Aug., 30 Eliz [1588] N: From date of conviction to 3 Oct. next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months . 10 0.

P : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz., under. " Westmorl""

[L. Margin]. Leta commissionbeissued . 11

'Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p. 370, 1. 8 seq to"et aliorum" Act 28 Eliz ., cap 6 3Cf entry [5], E. "Text 4" Oni De Anno" in MS i.e. the sheriff is charged to collect the rent for the current year only, omitting arrears Cf. op cit , p 371 , 1. 34 seq. Cf. op cit, p 370, 1. 19 seq "Theword "debet" (owes) is omitted in MS : by clerical oversight 8Cf op cit , p 371, 1. 1 seq . Cf. entry [5], E. The left-hand margin is damaged here, obliterating the note "oni" . 10The MS heregives, erroneously, "pro uno mense" . "fi[at] Commissio" 11

[rotulet 24] [Preamble]

WILTSHIRE

(" Wiltes"")

[1] John Thynne, esq., sheriff of this county from Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich , 36 Eliz., renders ... [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease ofseized land Rental]¹

[2] farm. A Sir James Marvin, knt [lessee] C : £55-6-8. D : Two-thirds ofvarious lands & tenementsin Laverstock & Tidworthe, Wilts., of the yearly value of £83, excluding the £30 assured& granted to Edith Fawkenor, the naturaldaughter of William Fawkoner of Eastmeane [East Meon], Hants , gent.

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) WILTS 185

B : The said William Fawkoner, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid James Marvin, his executors& assigns H(b) : FromMichaelmas, 30 Eliz [1588]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Wiltes"" . : J: On 29 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £27-13-4 was paid from this farm intotheTreasury And on23 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £27-13-4 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Marvin] isquit.

[Seized land Rental]2

[3] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a third part of a certain farm called "Burry Courte" [Berry Court Farm], in Dunhedd [Donhead] St. Andrew . C: £17-15-62 . B : John Grove, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue of a certain Act³ of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) : as in entry[2], H(k). F : £35-11-1 from previous years G : £53-6-81. J: For which the sheriffanswers below . [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is chargedunless ...

[Seized land Rental]5

[4] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements in Compton Chamberlayne & elsewhere. C : £66-13-4. B : John Codrington, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £80, by virtue ofthe aforesaid Act.³ E(d) as in entry[2], H(k) F: £333-6-8 G: £400.

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[5] farm . A "Fremanus" Yonge [lessee] C : £13-6-8 D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Alborne [Aldbourne], Wilts , let to a certain Thomas Walrand. B : GeorgeWalrand, gent , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid "Fremanus" Yonge & his assigns H(b) : From 5 May, 31 Eliz [1589] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry[2]. J: On 1 May, 36 Eliz [1594], £6-13-4 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 7 Nov. , 36 Eliz. [1594], £6-13-4 was paid .. [etc. as above] And he [Yonge] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[6] farm . A: Robert Penruddocke [lessee] C : £13-6-8 . D: Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements in Compton Chamberlayne, inthe tenureofEdward Frowd& John Nicholas, senior. B John Codrington, gent., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Penruddock, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 13 July, 32 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d) as C.8 H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry[2]. :

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4 ) WILTS

J: But he [Penruddocke] ought not to be summoned for£4-8-10 & two-thirds of 1d ., being part of the above rentfor this year, i.e. for a moiety of one messuage or tenement , with apps., in Compton Chamberlayneaforesaid, a copyholdby grant of John Nicholas senior , (" tent' per copiam cur' exconcession ' Johannis Nicholas senior'"), nor ought the said £4-8-10 & two-thirdsof 1d . to be charged henceforth, by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 36 Eliz, Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ]. And on ult. April, 36 Eliz [1594], £4-8-11 was paidfrom this farm intotheTreasury. And on 28 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £4-8-11 waspaid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Penruddocke] isquit.

[Lease ofseized land. Rental] [7] farm . A John Gregorye [lessee] C : £10-13-4. D :

Two-thirds of a purparty & portion ("purpartis & porc'")10 of the manor of Buryeblunsdon alias Burytowne [in Broad Blunsdon], Wilts., beinga parcel ofthe goods& chattels of¹ .. B : Richard Warneford of the city of Winton [Winchester], Hants., gent., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid John Gregorye, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 22 March, 33 Eliz. [1590/91]. H(c) H(d): as C. H(f) H(k): as in entry[2]. J: On 22 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £5-6-8 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £5-6-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Gregorye] is quit.

[Lease of seized land Rental]12

[8] farm . A John Carpenter, gent [lessee] C : £28-4-5 & two-thirds of d. D : Two-thirds of the manor ofNorington [Norrington], and of the other messuages, lands, tenements& hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Trowe, Semleighe [Semley], Hurcotte[Hurdcott], Barford St. Martin, Brodchalke [Broadchalk], Burchalke [Bowerchalk] & Ebbesbornewak [Ebbesborne Wake], Wilts , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under "Item Wiltes' B : ThomasGawen , recusant H(b) From 4 Feb., 34 Eliz [1591/2]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Item Wiltes'" . :

J: On 15 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £14-2-3 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. And on 28 Oct., 36Eliz [1594], £14-2-3 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Carpenter] is quit

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]13

[9] farm. A Edward Stone [lessee] C : £16-5-4 . D : Twothirds of the manor of Eston, alias Eston Bassett [Easton Bassett], & ofthe manor or"graung"" [grange] called"Lucies" , in the parishes of Donhedd [Donhead] & Barwick St. John [Berwick St. John], Wilts ; together with the various other

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) WILTS 187

manors, messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Sussex , specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under "Item Wiltes'" . B : John Shelley, gent , recusant. H(b) : From 12 Nov., 33 Eliz., [1591] H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry [8]

J : On 23 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £8-2-8 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury And on 7 Nov. , 36 Eliz [1594], £8-2-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Stone] isquit.

*[Seized land Rental]

[10]farm. A : Tenants B : David Grove of West Marten, "yoman" . C : £12 D : Two-thirds of a tenement, with apps, in West Marten aforesaid, being a copyhold for the term of the life of the said David (" tent' per copiam pro termino vite pred' David"), in the occupation of Thomas Grove & John Harrys. E(b) : 13 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] E(a) : Sir William Bruncker, knt. & others E(c) : Recusancy of the same David E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[11]A: The same sheriff, viz John Thynne, esq.

B [3] £53-6-8 (John Grove's tenants) ; [10] £12 (David Grove's tenants)

C : £65-6-81 .

D : [10] DavidGrove's tenants answer for their above debt in the following [Recusant] Roll, under " Wiltes"" , after theirfarm . 14

[3] John Grove's tenants answer for £35-11-1 of their above debt in the same roll (loc cit.) 14

And on 29 Nov., 38 Eliz. [1595] £17-15-8 of the above sum of £53-6-8 was paid into the Treasury under the name of John Grove.

E : And he [sheriff] has a surplus of 1d., which heremits to And he [sheriff] is quit. theQueen .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]

[12] 15A Robert Barnes , lately of Knoyle, Wilts , "yoman" C.

D : £220 F : £180 G. H. J: For 9 months following 30 Sept., 36 Eliz [1594]. L : £40 M : Thursday, 26 Feb. , 38 Eliz [1595/6]. N: From date of conviction to 22 April next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months. O.

P : But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred toin [Recusant] Roll, 13James 1 , under"Wiltes"" , in thefarm of Walter Fifeild, gent. And heis quit.

T

John Grindle of Fovente [Fovant], "yoman"

Edward Scanmell of Burzer [Bridzor], in the parish of Tysburye [Tisbury], "yoman"

John FezardeofTysbury"yoman"

]16£220forthelike.

[Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 9 James I, under " Wiltes"" , in thefarm ofWalter Scamell Andheisquit.

Robert Damneck17 of Chidlade, [Chicklade], "yoman"

David Brooke ofDunhedd [Donhead St. Andrew], "yoman"

John Davys of Tevante [Teffont],

]

forthelike.

William Browne of Semblye [Semley], "yoman" "yoman" aforesaid, "spinster"

Denyse ("Dionisia") Carde of Tisburye

18A: David Brooke of Dunhedd St. Andrew, Wilts ,"yoman"

B. D: £220. F: £180 G. H. J: For 9 months following 30 Mar., 37 Eliz [1595] L, M, N and O : as under Barnes above "Phillida" Brooke of the same , "spinster" ,wife of the said David . [ ] £220 for thelike.

ElizabethBrooke ofthe same , "spinster"

MaryBrooke ofthe same , "spinster"

"Text 'Text as C.R.S. ,XVIII, p. 352, 1. 8 seq. to "equaliter" as op cit , p 352, 1. 24 seq. to " Regine ibid'" 3The Act 28 Eliz , cap . 6 Cf. entry [11], D. "Text as op cit., 6Text as op cit, "Text as op cit., SMS here gives 10"purText

p 352, 1. 35 seq. to " Act' pred' ibid'" p 353 , 1. 1 seq to " tempore existen' ibid' p 353 , 1. 27 seq to" tempore existen' ibid'" . rent, erroneously , as "tresdecim solid' & octo denar' " asop cit., p. 354, 1. 9 seq to"tempore existen'ibid'" party" (theLatin is not "proprietatis" , as in op cit.) a share ,esp.in an inheritance: "portion" that part of a person's estate which is given or left to a child . (Wharton : Law Lexicon) 11An instance of the seizure & farming of "chattels real" . The term implies certain rights connected immediately with real estate, e.g. an interest in leaseholds, advowsons , etc.

p 355, 1. 3 seq to " Item Wiltes'" (1. 15)

p. 355, 1. 19 seq to" sicut cont' ibid'" Itis answered("r[espondet]ur") The sheriff(Thynne) was therefore discharged of this amount 15This & the following items , to 12Text as op cit. , 13Text as op cit, 14Note in L.margin : "Denyse Carde" inclus , are bracketed , L., with the note: Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio") 16The brackets here & initems below indicatea spaceleft in MSforthelaterinsertion (when required) of the word "deb'" (owes). See Introd. p. xcix. 17"Dominick" in later rolls 18This & the remainingitems are bracketed , L., with thenote : Let a commission be issued .

rotulet25]

[Preamble]

WORCESTERSHIRE

("Wigorn'")

[1] Thomas Bigges, esq., sheriffof this countyfrom Michaelmas, 35 Eliz.,toMich., 36 Eliz , renders ...[etc. as Berkshire[1]]

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A: James Wilcockes [lessee]. C : £51-6-8. D : Two-thirds of the site of the manor or mansion-house of Alvechurche, and of the park there ; together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 30 Eliz , under " Wigorn"" . B : William Heathe , junior, recusant H(a) : Aforesaid James Wilcockes, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 1 Mar., 31 Eliz [1588/9]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(f). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Wigorn'" . F : £51-6-8 from preceding year G : £102-13-4. :

J: But he [Wilcockes] ought not to be summoned for £76 (part [ofthe arrears] of thesaid rent of £51-6-8), being the rentfora piece of land called"le launde" in Alvechurche , within the park of Alvechurche , and for one barn,for a meadow called"le newe Poole Meadowe" ,for a park called "le great parke" , andfora certain house , withorchard (" gardin'"), garden ("horto") &4 virgates of land called "le Chauntrye landes" , adjacent to the aforesaid house in Fladbury, of the lands & tenements of the said William Heathe, from Michaelmas, 34 Eliz. [1592], to Mich., 36 Eliz., viz for the space of2 years, nor ought£38 ofthe said annual rent of £51-6-8 to be charged henceforth by considerationof the Barons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 33 Eliz , Hilary term, "Recorda" section,rotulet[ ]. And he [Wilcockes] owes £26-13-4for two-thirds ofa certain annual rent of £20, of andfrom the aforesaid site, park & other premises , granted to a certain Dorothy Heathe, widow, recusant, during her life. For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the present rotulet.2

[Lease of seized land. Rental]³ [3] farm . A Henry Middlemore , esq. [lessee] C : £18-6s. D : Two-thirds of a capital messuage or mansion-house called "Hawkeslowe" , with appurtenances, in the parish of Kingesnorton [Kings Norton], Worcs % ; together with the various other manors, messuages, lands & tenementsspecified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Wigorn"" . B: John Middlemore, esq , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Henry Middlemore & his assigns. H(b) : From 22 June, 30 Eliz. [1588]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry[2]

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

J: On 20 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £9-3s was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury, underthe names ofthe tenantsofthepremises. And on 12 Oct., 36Eliz. [1594], £9-3s. waspaid ... [etc. asabove] And he [H. Middlemore ] is quit.

[Seized land. Rental]4

[4] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a certain annual rent of £2, issuing from a certain messuage & from various lands, with apps , in the parish of ( ) on Severn , 5 Worcs

C: £1-6-8. B : Richard Hill, recusant, who is indebted to the Queenin the sum of £260, by virtue of a certain Act ofthe Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz E(d) as in entry[2], H(k) F : £1-6-8 from preceding year. G : £2-13-4

J: For which the sheriff answers on the dorse of the present rotulet.2

[Seized land. Rental]

[5] farm. A : Tenants. D: Two-thirds of a certain annual rent issuing & reserved from one messuage & from various lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Hanley Castle, Worcs

C : £1-6-8. B : Hugh Ligon, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £260, by virtue of the aforesaid Act.

F: £1-6-8 from preceding year

G : £2-13-4.

J : On 12 Feb. , 37 Eliz. [1594/5], £1-6-8 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 4 Nov. 36 Eliz. [1594], 13s 4d. of the sum of £1-6-8 was paid . . . [etc. as above]. Andthey[tenants] owe 13s .4d. [Further postscript as under entry [4]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]8

[6] farm. A: John Chare [lessee] C : £12 D : Two-thirdsof two messuages or tenementscalled"Woodend" & "Pleistowe"; together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements in Worcs., specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Res' Wigorn'" B : John Bradstock, recusant H(a): Aforesaid John Chare, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 3 April, 32 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d): as C. H(e). H(f). H(k) as in entry[2] F : £24 from previous years G : £36

J: On 2 May, 34 Eliz [1592], £6 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury, under the names of the tenants of the premises. And on 13 Nov., 34 Eliz. [1592], £6 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 23 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £6 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury, under the name of the said John Chare. And he [Chare] owes £18 . But he [Chare] ought not to be summoned for this [sum], nor ought the said rent to be chargedhenceforth, by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" , section rotulet [ ]. And he [Chare] is quit.

2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

[Seized land Rental]⁹

[7] farm. A

Tenants C : £3-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a certain annuityor annual rent of £5, issuing from the lands & tenements ofa certain Thomas Follyatt, esq., of Pirton, Worcs. B : MichaelFollyatt, recusant, who is indebted totheQueenin the sumof£280, byreasonofhis recusancy E(a) : "Griffinus" Lewis & others E(b) : 12 Jan. , 32 Eliz [1589/90] E(d) :

Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Wigorn'" . F: £13-6-8 from previous years G : £16-13-4.

J: [Postscript as under entry [4]].

[Seized land. Rental]10

[8] farm . A

Tenants. C : £7-11-4. D : Two-thirds of 4 messuages & of other lands, woods & rents, with apps., in Staunton [? Gloucs.] & Eldersfeild, Worcs.; of a certain tenement, with apps., in Corse, Gloucs.; and ofthemoietyof a certain messuage & certain lands in Hanley Castle, Worcs.

B : William Bradstock, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of£280, by reason of his recusancy. E(a), (b) and (d) as in entry [7] F : £30-5-4 from previous years.

G: £37-16-8. :

[Lease of seized land Rental]"

[9] farm. A: Thomas Cole, gent [lessee]. C : £8-13-4.

D: Two-thirds of the manor of Glasshampton ; with the various messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Worcs. specifiedinthe preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Wigorn'" . "

B : ThomasBlunt, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Cole, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 23 Nov., 33 Eliz [1590] H(c) H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry[7], E(d).

J: But he [Cole] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, for a reason referred to in preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Wigorn"" , in thefarm of the aforesaidThomas Cole . 12 And he [Cole] is quit.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[10]farm. A: Tenants B : Giles Nanfan, esq , recusant C : £26-13-4 D : Two-thirds of the manors of Brutes Morton, alias Birchemorton [Birtsmorton], Borrowe [Berrow] & Pendock, with appurtenances ; and of a messuage or tenement called "Marshe Farme" , with apps , in Longdon, Worcs. E(a) Sir Henry Bromeley, knt. , & others. E(b) : 10 Oct., 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] F : £26-13-4 from preceding year. G : £53-6-8.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned forthis[rent], nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth , by consideration

192 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) WORCS

of the Barons [ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 36 Eliz , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And they [tenants] are quit

[Arrearage ofrent]

[11] A Tenants B : John Brodstock, recusant D : Two-thirds of2 messuages ortenementscalled "Woodend" & "Pleystowe" , with apps , in Quennill [Queenhill], in the parish of Rypple [Ripple]; and of certain lands & tenements in Ombersley, Worcs. F : £6, being part of a certain rent of £12 , viz. the rent for the half-year ending Ladyday, 32 Eliz [1590] E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Wigorn'"13 J: [Postscript as under entry[4]].

[Record of annual finepaid]

[12] A: John Talbott, esq C. D : £260 H. E : From 5 Oct., 35 Eliz [1593] to 4 Oct., 36 Eliz , i.e. for 13 [lunar] months K. G.

P : On 11 May, 36Eliz. [1594], £140 was paid intotheTreasury. And on 28 Nov., 37Eliz. [1594], £120 was paidinto theTreasury. And he is quit.

†[Lease of seized land Rental]

[13]farm. A Thomas Willyams [lessee] C : £2-6-8, due at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594], being part of an annual rent of £4-13-4. D : Two-thirds of a messuage or tenement in Upton-on-Severn, Worcs. , called "Grenefyld" , and of certain lands & tenementsin Upton aforesaid, belonging & pertaining to the said messuage, with their apps , in the tenure or occupation of a certain Thomas Bracye B : Richard Hill, recusant E(b) 16 March, 36Eliz. [1593/4]. E(a) : Sir Henry Bromeley, knt. , & others H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Williams, his executors & assigns H(b) : From 7 Aug., 36 Eliz. [1594]. H(c). H(d) £4-13-4. H(e) H(k) : Cf. Roll ofthe Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz., under " Wigorn'" . J: On 9 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], he [Willyams ] deliveredthis sum in the Treasury, underthe name ofJohn Grene . And he [Willyams] is quit. †[Lease ofseized land. Rental] [14]farm. A Thomas Willyams [lessee]. C : 13s 4d , due at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594], being part of an annual rent of £1-6-8. D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements in Hanley Castle, Worcs , in the tenure of William Suffeyld, by a lease of the same property ("per dimissionem inde") B : Hugh Lygon, gent., recusant E(b) and (a) : as in entry [13]. H(a) Aforesaid Thomas Willyams , his executors & assigns H(b) : as in entry [13]. H(c). H(d) : £1-6-8. H(e). H(k) as in entry [13]

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) WORCS 193

J: On 5 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], he [Willyams] deliveredthis sum in the Treasury. And he [Willyams] is quit.

**[Lease of seized land Rental] [15]farm . A Thomas Willyams [lessee]. C : 13s. 4d , due at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz. [1594], being part of an annual rent of £1-6-8. D : Two-thirds of various lands & tenements , with apps , in the parish of Northfield, Worcs B : Edward Geest , "yeoman" , recusant E(b) and (a) : as in entry [13] H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Willyams , his executors & assigns H(b) : as in entry [13] H(c) H(d) : £1-6-8. H(e). H(k) : as in entry[13].

[Enrolments of estreatedconvictions for recusancy]14 [16] A

Thomas Bluntt of Astlee [Astley], Worcs., gent. C. D :

£80 F : £60 G. H. J : For 3 months next following 1 May, 37 Eliz [1595]. L : £20 M: Thursday, 25 March, 38 Eliz [1596]. N: From date of conviction to 22 April, next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

P : But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to on the dorse of the presentrotulet, in another debt of the same Thomas And he is quit. Bridget Bluntt of Astlee aforesaid, wife ofthe said Thomas Bluntt . . . owes £80 for the like. [Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reasonreferred to in [Recusant] Roll, 43 Eliz, under Wigorn " , in another debt of the same Bridget. And she is quit

A: John Yeernold, lately of Hadsor [Hadzor], "yoman"

C. D

£40 F : £20 G. H. J: For 1 month next following 11 Aug. , 33 Eliz [1591] L : £20 M : Thursday, 9 March, 34 Eliz [1591/2]. N : From date of convictionto 7 April, next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. 0. ,

P: But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], forareason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 12 James I, under " Wigorn ' in thefarm of the tenants of the lands & tenements ofthesame John. And heis quit.

[rotulet 25 , dorse]

[Statement of sheriff's arrears]

[17]A The same sheriff , viz. Thomas Biggs, esq.

B : [2] £26-13-4 (Wilcockes) ; [4] £2-13-4 (Hill's tenants) ; [5] 13s. 4d (Ligon's tenants) ; [7] £16-13-4 (Follyatt's tenants) ; [11] £6 (Brodstock's tenants) ; [15] 13s . 4d. (Willyams).

C : £53-6-8.

E : And he [sheriff] answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz. , under Wigon'" .

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]15 [18]A Thomas Bluntt, lately of Asteley, [Astley], Worcs. , gent. C. D £40 F : £20 G. H. J: For 1 month next following 1 Feb., 38 Eliz [1585/6] L : £20 M : Thursday, 25 March, 38 Eliz [1596] N : From date of convictionto 22 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month O. P : But he oughtnot to besummoned for this[debt],byconsideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 4 James I, Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ]. And he is quit.

Hugh Throgmorton, lately of Kingsnorton, gent

[ ] 16£40 forthelike.

ThomasGreene, latelyofBransford,gent owes [Postscript]But he oughtnotto be summonedfor this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R. , 4 James I, Hilary term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And he is quit. William Colles, latelyofHallowe[North Hallow ], gent owes £40for the like. [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in[Recusant] Roll, 3 James I, under "Wiltes"" , in another debt of the same William

Mary Colles, wife of the said William Edward Goldwyre, lately of the same , "yoman"

HughDaye, lately ofthe same, gent.

MargeryDaye,wife ofthe same Hugh

Dorothy Abington, lately of Hynlipp [Hindlip], "spinster" .

Katherine Sparkes, lately of the same , "spinster"

Lion' Barton, latelyof the same , gent

Nicholas Woodhappe of the "yoman" same,

John Ellys of the same, "yoman"

] £40 for the like.

Ralph Goulde ofthe same, "yoman" And he is quit.

[Postscript]But he oughtnotto be summonedfor this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 4 James I, Hilary term, "Recorda" section [ ].

James Morgan ofthe same , "yoman"

John Hollyman ofthe same, "yoman"

Margaret Smith ofthe same, "spinster"

Alice Collesofthe same , "spinster"

Elizabeth Bradshawe of the same, "spinster"

Thomas Abyngton,latelyofthe same ,esq.

Andheis quit. ] £40 for the like

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

Dorothy Abyngton, wife of the same

Ann Parsons ofthe same, "spinster"

Thomas WORCS 195 [ ] £40 for thelike. [ ] 33

George Harrys,latelyof Halesowen,gent owes [Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by considerationof the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 9 James I, Trinity term , "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ] And he is quit

John Moore ofthe same , "yoman"

JohnCollyns ofthe same , "yoman"

William Higgyns of the same, "yoman"

Richard Reynoldes ofthe same , "yoman"

Mary, his wife [ ] £40 for the like.

Robert Smitheofthesame , "yoman"

Margaret Penne, lately of Hageley [Hagley], wife ofRoger Penne , gent. [ ]

[rotulet 24, dorse] (" Res' Wigorn'") " "د [Enrolments ofestreatedconvictions : continued]15

[19] A Thomas Smithe of Elmeley Lovett, Worcs., " husband'" .

B. D £40 F : £20 G. H. J : For 1 month next following 1 Feb. , 38 Eliz [1595/6] L : £20 M : Thursday, 25 March, 38 Eliz [1596]. N : From date of convictionto 22 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

Elizabeth Smythe ofthe same, "spinster" [ ] £40 for the like.

JoanSmytheofthe same, "spinster" .

Humphrey Smythe of the same, "husb'" owes £40forthesame¹7

Elizabeth Smythe, wife of the same Humphrey , Edward Gest , ' lately of Northfeild

GeorgeGest,latelyofthe same , " husb"" owes

Frances Geste, wife of the same George [ ] £40for the like

DorothyAndros of the same, widow Owes " "

[Postscript]But she oughtnot tobe summoned for this[debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 3 James I, Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. Andshe is quit

Elizabeth Smythe of the same , wife of John Smithe, "yoman"

Ann Greves , lately of Yardley, wife of John Greves , "yoman" [ ] £40 for the like. [ ]

John Smithe, lately of Stoke Priors, "yoman"

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summonedfor this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Res' Wigorn'" , in another debt of the same John . 19 And heis quit.

MargaretSmithe, wife ofthe same John [ ] £40forthe like.

JohnMiddlemore , latelyofKingsnorton, esq.

Jane Middlemore, lately of the same , wifeofGeorgeMiddlemore , gent.

Henry Walderne of the same , "Blacksmithe"

RogerPalmerofthe same, "Taylor"

Daniel Pynnynge of the same , "Blacksmith"

Humphrey Packyngton of Chadsley "

Corbett [ChaddesleyCorbett], gent. owes [Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under London Midd " , in another debt of the same Humphrey. 20 And he is quit.

Ann, wife ofWilliam Mowsillofthe same ( ) £40 for the like

William Walderne of the same, "laborer"

GeorgeBache ofthesame , "husb

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to besummonedfor this

debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 1 James I, under "Res' Wigorn'" , in another debt of the same George. And heis quit.

Alice, wife of George Hornyold of Breedon [Bredon], gent

Katherine Hornyhold of the same, "spinster"

"Radygon" Horwood of Bradforton [Bretforton], "spinster"

WilliamMoore ofRipple, "Fysherman"

Frances ,wife ofJohnWynnall ofthesame

Henry Moore ofthe same, "Fysherman"

John Wolmer, lately of Inckbarrowe , [Inkberrow], gent

] £40 for the like.

[Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 3 Charles I, under " Wigorn'" , in the farm of the tenants ofthe lands & tenements of the same John Woolmore. And heis quit "Rowfe" Woolmer ofthe same , gent

John Wolmer of Kyngton [Kington] gent

] £40 forthelike.

[Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summonedfor this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 5 James I, under " Wigorn'" , in the farm of the tenantsof the landsofthe same John Wollmer. Andheisquit.

Mary Woolmer, lately ofthe same , wife of William Woolmer, gent.

forthelike.

Ann Byssell, latelyof Yardley, wife of John Byssell

Jane Waldern of the same, wife of Roger Waldern

Dorothy Wrenford of Longdon, wife of ThomasWrenford, gent.

Frances Wrenford ofthe same , "spinster"

Elizabeth, wife of Edmund Courte, alias Smithe, of Ouldbarrowe [? Oldberrow, Warwicks]

for the like.

John Hill, lately of Castle Morton, "yoman" . "B. "D : £40

F £20. G. H. J : For 1 month next following 5 Sept., 37 Eliz [1595] L : £20 M : Thursday, 25 March, 38 Eliz [1596]. N : From date of conviction to 22 April nextfollowing, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month O.

Alice Hill, wife of the said John

Richard Hill, sonofthe said John

Alice Hill, daughter ofthe said John

John Smithe, lately of Stoke Priors, "yoman"

[

40 for the like owes

Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summonedfor this [debt], for a reason referred to in preceding[Recusant] Roll, under Res' Wigorn'" , in another debt ofthe same John . 19

Margaret, wife ofthe said John

Elizabeth Sutton, wife of John Sutton, latelyofUpton-on-Severn

Thomas Morrys, lately of Claynes [Claines], " husb'"

Hugh Lygon, lately of Hanley Castell, gent

[

And he is quit. [ ] £40forthelike.

Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Res' Wigorn'" , in another debt of the same Hugh . 21

Barbara Lygon, his wife

Michael Follyott, lately ofthe same ,gent.

Margaret , his wife

John Newport of the same , gent

Margaret, his wife.

Joan Wakeman, wife of Richard Wakeman of the same , "yoman"

Ann Leethe, latelyofthe same, widow

John Greene, latelyofHynlipp[Hindlip] owes

And he is quit.

the like.

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to besummoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 11 James I, under Wigorn'" , in the farm of the tenants of the lands ofthe same John Greene. And he isquit. "

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4)

Margaret , his wife

John Cookes , lately of Hallesowen [Halesowen], "yoman"

Francis Collyns, lately of the same , "yoman"

Agnes, hiswife

Robert Brigges, of Elmelye Lovett, "yoman"

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summonedfor this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., of the 16thyear [ofthe reign] of the present King, 22 Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] And he is quit

Dorothy Heathe, lately of Alchurche [Alvechurch], widow

Ann Haynesofthe same, "spinster"

Jane Sheldonof the same, widow

Ann Byssell, lately of Yardeley ,

"spinster" , wife of John Bissell

Joan Prettye, wife of John Prettye of the same

EdwardAverellofthe same , "laborer"

Mary, hiswife

Joan Greene ofthe same , "spinster"

Richard Avery ofthe same, "Blacksmith"

Eleanor Cowper of the same, widow

Alice, wife of Simon Swifte ofthe same , "yoman"

William Cowperofthe same, "yoman" . Owes

[

Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 6 James I, Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] Andhe is quit

Margaret, his wife

MargaretRigbye,wife ofWilliam Rigbye, lately of Stoke Priors, gent.

Mary, wife of Thomas Sheldon of the same , gent

Richard Reynoldes of the same ,

Isabell , wife of Henry Waldron of the same , "Blacksmith" "wheeler"

William Averell , alias Tailor , of the same , "Baker"

]

40 for the like

Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p. 356, 1. 44 seq (with variant phrasings)

*Cf . entry [17], É . Themarginal note"oni" ([Thesheriff]ischarged unless ...)is notdiscernibleonthisrotulet Themarginisratherworn

3Text as op cit, p 357, 1. 14 seq (with variant phrasings) to "sicut

2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

"Text as op cit , p. 357, 1. 29 seq

199 5Nameof "The 8Text Textasop.cit .,

cont' ibid' parish omitted : ?Upton-on-Severn (cf. entry [13], below). Act 28 Eliz , cap 6. 7Text as op cit , p 357, 1. 36 seq as op cit., p. 358, 1. 11 seq to" existen'ibid"" p 358, 1. 22 seq to" capt' et seisit'" 10Text as op cit, p 359 , 1. 10 seq to "capt' et seisit"" 11Cf . op. cit., p 359, 1. 35 seq 12The reference is theregiven to Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section . 13Cf. op cit, p 358 , 1.34seq. 14Thefirst two items underthis heading are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a Commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio") 15All the items underthis headingare bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued 16The brackets here & in items below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required)oftheword " deb"" (owes) Cf. Introd, p.xcix 17These twoitemsare bracketed , R., withthenote : Sum ofthese2 debts-£80 . But they ought not to be summoned for these debts, for a reason referredto in thepreceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Wigorn'" , in another debt ofthe aforesaid Humphrey Andtheyarequit 18These two items are bracketed , R., with the note : Sum of these 2 debts£80 . But they ought not to be summonedfor thesedebts, for a reason referredto in [Recusant] Roll, 3 Charles I, under " Wigorn"" , in the farm of the tenants of the lands & tenements of George Gest. And they are quit 19Op cit., p 368, 1. 31 : "Sed non debet" etc. 20Op cit , p 145, 1. 24 : "Sed non debet" etc. 21Op cit, p 369 (last line) : "Sed non debet" etc. 22 de Anno xvjto Regis nunc" in MS, almost certainly a reference to James I. The handwriting and ink are the same as in other similar Jacobean postscripts on this rotulet

[rotulet 4] [Preamble]

YORKSHIRE

("Ebor"")

[1] Ralph, Lord Ewre, sheriff of this county from Michaelmas , 35 Eliz., to Mich. , 36 Eliz., renders . . . [etc. as Berkshire [1]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]¹

[2] farm . A Lawrence Dutton, an usher-in-ordinary of the chamber royal [lessee] C : £4-8-10 ; D : Two-thirds of various lands lying & existing in Moreton, Yorks B : John Rookeby of Moreton [? Mortham], in the parish of Rookeby [Rokeby], Yorks , esq., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Lawrence Dutton & his assigns. H(b) : From 4 April, 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f). H(k): Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Ebor"" F : £4-8-10% from preceding year. G : £8-17-9 . : J: For £8 of which the sheriff answers under " Res' Ebor"".2 And he [Dutton] owes 17s . 9 d., which is chargedto the same farmer within a sum of £8-17-9 , as is shown in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz. , under" Adhuc Res' Ebor'" [L. Margin] [The sheriff] is charged, unless ....

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) YORKS

[Seized land Rental]³

[3] farm .

A : Tenants D : Two-thirds of the manor of Cauthorne [Cawthorne], with certain iron-mills (" molend' ferr""), lands & tenements in Mensthorpe, in the parish of Southkirkebye [South Kirkby], Yorks C : £34-3-4. B : Mary Waterton, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen inthe sum of £140, by virtue ofa certain Act of the Parliament [begun] at Westminster on 29 Oct., 28 Eliz. E(d) as in entry [2], H(k). F £34-3-4 from preceding year G : £68-6-8.

J: For which the sheriffanswers under " Res' Ebor'"2.

[L.Margin] [The sheriff] is charged , unless. . ..

[Seized land. Rental]5 :

[4] farm . A : Tenants D : Two-thirds of certain lands & tenements in Kykesboroughe [Kexbrough ], Yorks., and of a certain [wood]usually [called]"le springewood" C: £28-17-9. B : Mary Savile, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140, but virtue of the aforesaid Act.4 E(d) as in entry [2], H(k) F : £28-17-9from preceding year G: £57-15-6.

[Seized land. Rental]6

[5] farm . A Tenants Ď : Two-thirds of a certain annuity or annual rent of 20 marks, issuing yearly from the lands & tenements of Thomas Procter or John Procter, or either of them C : £8-17-10 B : Alice Procter, widow, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140, by virtue of the aforesaid Act. E(d) : as in entry [2], H(k) F : £8-17-10 from preceding year. G : £ 17-15-8 .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

[Seized land. Rental]?

[6] farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a certain annuity or annual rent of 20 marks, issuing yearly from certain lands & tenements in Bretton [Bretton West], Yorks C : £8-17-10. B: Matilda Wentworth, recusant, who is indebted totheQueen in the sum of£140 , by virtue of the aforesaid Act.4 E(d): as in entry [2], H(k) F : £8-17-10 from preceding year G : £17-15-8.

J: [Postscripts as under entry [3]].

[Seized land. Rental]8

[7] farm. A : Tenants. D : Two-thirds of a parcel of arable & meadow land in Bentham, Yorks C : 8s B : William Granger of Bentham aforesaid, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £ 140, by virtue of the aforesaid Act E(d) as in entry [2], H(k) F : 8s. from preceding year. G: 16s .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Seized land. Rental]

[8] farm. A Tenants D : Two-thirdsofa capital messuage in Northmillfurthe [NorthMilford], and ofvarious lands pertainingto the same in Yorks C : £17-6-8 B : ThomasLeedes , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140 , by virtue of the aforesaid Act.4 E(d) : as in entry [2], H(k). F : £5-8-4 for Richard Goodrick, esq , sheriff of the year 33 Eliz. (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under " Item Ebor""), viz. the rent due from this propertyfor the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Ebor" "). G : £22-15s. [Further arrears] £17-6-8 from preceding year [Total debt] £40-1-8

J: On 22 May, 35Eliz. [1593], £5-6-8 was paid from thisfarm into the Treasury. And on 12 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £5-6-8 was paid ...[etc. as above] And on 2 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £5-6-8 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz . , [1594], £5-19-2 was paid .. [etc. as above]. And they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £18-2-6, by considerationofthe Barons[ofthe Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 32 Eliz., Easterterm,"Recorda" section ,rotulet [ ]. And they [tenants] are quit

[Seized land. Rental]10

[9] farm. A : Tenants D : Two-thirds of a certain annual rent of £40, issuing from the lands of Francis Metham . C : £26-13-4. B : Katherine Bowmer, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140, by virtue of the aforesaid Act . E(d) as in entry [2], H(k). F : £26-13-4 from precedingyear. G : £53-6-8. :

[Lease of seized land Rental]11

[10]farm. A : William Stere [lessee] C : £47-15-6 & farthing, being part [of an original rent] of £87-15-6 & farthing D : Two-thirds of certain lands in Carleton, with appurtenances , in Yorks., of the yearlyvalue of £44-8-10 & farthing ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Estlayton [East Layton], Yorks. B : George Cattrick, gent , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid William Stere, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 11 Oct. , 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c) H(d) : £47-15-6% & farthing. H(e) H(f) H(k) : as in entry [2]. F : £47-15-6 & farthing, from preceding year G : £95-11-12 . J : [Postscripts as under entry [3]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[11]farm. A William Stere[lessee] C : £40, beingtheremainder [of an original rent] of £87-15-6 & farthing. D: Various messuages, lands & tenements, with apps., in Barforth.

B : Elizabeth Pudsey, widow, recusant H(a) : as in entry [10]. H(b) From 11 Oct., 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c). H(d): £40 H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [2]. F : £40 from preceding year. G : £80.

J: On 22 May, 35 Eliz. [1593] £20 was paid from thisfarm into theTreasury. And on 15 April, 36Eliz [1594], £20was paid ... [etc. as above] And on 12 Oct., 36 Eliz [1594], £20 was paid ...[etc. as above]. And he [Stere] owes £20 . [Other postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Lease of seized land

Rental]12

[12]farm . A Richard Maunsell [lessee ] C : £2. D : Twothirds of certain lands lying & existing in Calverley, Burghley [Burley] & Pudsey, Yorks. B : William Calverley, gent. , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Richard Mansell, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 11 July, 32 Eliz [1590] H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e) H(f) H(k) as in entry [2] F : £2 from precedingyear. G : £4.

[Lease of seized land Rental]13

[13]farm . A: James Bellamy, one of the Queen's servants [lessee]. C: £2-13-4, being part [of an original rent] of £19-12-6 . D : Two-thirds of a messuage and 11 oxgangs of land, with apps , in Thornton, Yorks B : Dorothy Hunter , widow , recusant H(a) : Aforesaid James Bellamye, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From 3 Aug., 32 Eliz. [1590]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : as in entry [2]. F: £2-13-4 from precedingyear. G : £5-6-8

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]14

[14]farm . A John Twiste & George Hill [lessees]. C : £4-18-4 & two-thirds of1d D.1 : Two-thirds of various lands & tenements, with appurtenances, in Sheffeld [Sheffield], Attercliff, Darnell [Darnall] & Doncaster B.1 : Richard Fenton of Hathersage, Co. Derby, gent., recusant. D.2 Two-thirds of various messuages, lands, tenements, meadow & pasture land in Clayton and elsewhere in Yorks. B.2 : Gervase ("Jervasii") Anne, gent. , recusant H(b) : From Michaelmas , 33 Eliz [1591] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(f) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Res' Ebor'" .

[Lease of seized land Rental]15

[15]farm . A Richard Mussenden, gent [lessee] C : £7-15-9. D.1 Two-thirds of a moiety of one messuage or tenement in Swynflete [Swinefleet] & Rednes [Reedness], in the parish of Whitguifte [Whitgift], called "Westholdinge" , and of one messuage ortenement, with apps., in Ottringham , Yorks B.1 : William Stevenson, gent , recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS 203 various messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Gowle [Goole], in the parish of Snaythe [Snaith], Yorks. B.2 : Robert Stevenson, gent , recusant H(b): From 29 Nov. , 34 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry [14]. :

J: On ult April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £1-13-5 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And on 19 Nov., 37 Eliz [1594], £1-13-5 was paid [etc. as above] And he [Mussenden] owes £4-8-10 ; and £2-4-5 from preceding year Total debt : £6-13-3.

[Seized land . Rental]16

[16]farm . A Tenants D : Two-thirds of certain closes & copsewood ("copic' bosci") in Cavell [Cavil] & Burland [? Bennetland, in Eastrington], Yorks C : £24-6-6. B: Christopher Manckton of Cavill, lately of Londesbroughe [Londesborough], esq , recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £100, by reason of his recusancy . E(a) : Sir Christopher Hillyard, knt , & others E(b) : 3 Nov., 31 Eliz [1589]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda, L.T.R., 31 Eliz, Michaelmas term, "Commissiones" section, rotulet [ ] ; and preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Ebor"" . F : £97-6s from previous years G : £121-12-6.

J: [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Seized land. Rental]17

[17]farm . A Tenants B : Robert Ellerker , gent , recusant C : £2 D: Two-thirds of a tenement & certain oxgangs of land, with apps., in Riplingham , in the tenure of Ambrose Huntman , alias Tenent E(a) : John Savile, gent , & others. E(b) 23 Oct., 33 Eliz [1591]. E(c) for the satisfaction of a debt of£140, whichthe said Robert then owed to the Queen by reason of his recusancy. E(d) : as in entry [16]. F : £4 from previous years. G: £6

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Seized land . Rental]18

[18]farm. A : Tenants. B : Janet ("Jenetta") Bellowes , lately of Ledeston [Ledston], "spinster" C : 10s D : Two-thirds ofa certain lease or rent of one messuage & of various lands & tenementsin Ledeston aforesaid ; and ofanother lease or rent ofcertain tithes of hay in the meadows ofAllerton perAquam [Allerton Bywater] E(a), (b) and (d) : as in entry [17] F : £ 1 from previous years G : £1-10s

J : [Postscripts as under entry [3]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[19]farm . A : Ann Twiste, laundress to the Queen [lessee] C: £39-13-4 . D.1 : Two-thirds of a moiety or half-part

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS

ofa manor or capital messuage, withappurtenances, in Reston in Holdernes [Long Riston, in Holderness], Yorks, called "le hall garthe" ; and ofa moiety or half-part of a close pertaining tothe saidmessuage ; together withthe various other messuages , and arable, meadow, grazing & pasture land and hereditaments, with apps., in Yorks , specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Ebor'".19 B.1 ; Thomas Barnebye of Barnebye [Barnby, W.R.], Yorks , esq , recusant. D.2 : Two-thirds of themanoror capital messuage of Roall, with apps , in Yorks., and of all the messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments in Roall aforesaid, belongingto the saidmanor orcapital messuage. B.2 George Anne, lately of Frickley, Yorks. , esq , recusant H(a) Aforesaid Ann Twiste, her executors& assigns H(b) : From 26 May, 34 Eliz [1592]. H(c) H(d) : £26-6-8 (for Barnebye's property) ; £13-6-8 (for George Anne's property).

H(e). H(f). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Ebor'" 19

J: And she [Twiste] answers on the dorse ofthepresentrotulet20 for £26-6-8 , i.e. the rent of two-thirds ofa moietyorhalf-part of the manor or capital messuage, with apps , in Reston in Holdernes, & of the other lands & tenements of the aforesaid Thomas Barneby, esq. And she owes £13-6-8 [for George Anne's property], and £2021 from previous years. Total debt : £33-6-8.

[Further postscripts as under entry[3]].

[rotulet4, dorse]

[Lease of seized land. Rental]

[20]farm . A Thomas Bayley, gent. , & Thomas Thorney [lessees ] C : £17-13-4. D.1 : All tithes of wool & lambs belonging to the rectoryof Rudbye [in Cleveland], Yorks , and the tithes of grain- & hay-sheaves in Potto, being a parcel of the said rectory; together with the various other tithes [? and] arable , meadow , grazing & pasture land, with apps , Yorks, specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Ebor"" 22 ; being a parcel of the lands & possessions of ... B.1 : John Inglebyof London, gent , recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of the manor of Clapham, with apps , in Yorks. ; and of various other lands & tenementswithin the aforesaid parish. B.2 : ThomasIngleby, gent., recusant H(a) : Aforesaid Thomas Bayley & Thomas Thorney, their executors & assigns H(b) : From 30 June, 34 Eliz [1592]. H(c). H(d) : £13-13-4 (for John Ingleby's property) ; £4 (for Thomas Ingleby's property). H(e). H(k) Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Ebor"".22

J: On 25 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £2 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury, under the name of Robert Lawson . And on 25 April, 36 Eliz., £6-16-8 was paid ... [etc.], under the name of Robert Oglethorpe And on 6 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1594], £8-16-8

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS 205 was paid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 4 Nov. , 36 Eliz., [£8-13-3 deleted] was paid . . [etc. as above]. Andheisquit23

[Lease of seized land. Rental]24 :

[21]farm . A James Bellamye, one of the Queen's servants [lessee]. C:

£15-12-51 & farthing, being the remainder [of an original rent] of £ 19-12-6.25 D : Two-thirds of a mansion-house, withvarious lands pertaining to it,inSharleston , and ofvarious other lands & tenementsin Yorks B : Francis Jackson, recusant. H(b) : From 3 Aug., 32 Eliz [1590].

H(c). H(d)

£15-12-5 & farthing. H(e) H(f). H(k): Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Ebor " (dorse of the rotulet)24. F: £15-12-5 & farthing from preceding year. G : £31-4-10 % .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

[Seized land Rental]26 "

[22]farm. A Tenants. D : Two-thirds of an apartment or house, called "a chambre" , in Pountfrett [Pontefract], and of a messuage or tenement, called "HampallStubbes" or"Stubbes Hampall" [Hamphall Stubbs], with apps , in Yorks C : £6-16-8. B : Edward Royston, lately of Kridlinge [Cridling Stubbs], gent., recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of£160, byvirtueofthe aforesaid Act.4 E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Res Ebor"".26 F: £10-5s . for Richard Goodrick, esq , sheriff of the year 33 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under " Item Ebor""), viz the rent for the year 33 Eliz , & its arrears (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz, under " Item Ebor'") ; and £6-16-8 from preceding year. (34–35 Eliz . ) . G : £ 23–18–4

J:For £6-16-8ofwhichthesheriffanswers under"Res'Ebor""27 . And they [tenants] owe £17-1-8 . [L. Margin]. [The sheriff] is charged, unless ....

[Lease of seized land Rental]28

[23]farm. A: Brian Metcalff, gent [lessee] C : £4-8-10. D : Two-thirds of the manor or lordship ("dominii") of Ugthorpe, Yorks., and of 2 messuages, with various arable , meadow & pasture lands, with appurtenances, in Westbarneby [West Barnby], Yorks B : Katherine Radcliff of Ugthorpe in the parish of Lyeth [Lythe], Yorks , "spinster" , recusant. E(b) 22 May, 35 Eliz [1593] E(a) : Ralph Rookeby , esq., & others H(a) : Aforesaid Brian Metcalf, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From Ladyday, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Res' Ebor'".28 F : £2-4-5 from last partof preceding year G : £6-13-3. : :

206 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS

J: On 27 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1593], £2-4-5 was paid from this farm into the Treasury. And on 27 April, 36 Eliz [1594], £2-4-5 was paid. . . [etc. as above] And on 12 Nov. , 36 Eliz [1594], £2-4-5 was paid ... [etc. as above]. And he [Metcalff] is quit.

[Seized land . Rental]29

[24]farm. A Tenants. B : John Smytheson , "yoman" , recusant C: 10s 10d D: Two-thirdsofcertain landsinSkeby[Skeeby], Yorks E(b) : "[Seized] into the Queen's hands by reason of awritofthis Exchequer, returned into this courtin thequindene ofSt. Martin, 33 Eliz. [1591]" . E(d) : as in entry[22].

J : [Postscripts as under entry [3]].

*[Seized land. Rental]

[25]farm . A Tenants. B : Margaret Scroope , widow, recusant.

C : £17-6-7 . D : Two-thirds of various lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in DanbyYore[Danbyupon Yore], of the yearly value of £10-11-1 ; and of various lands, tenements & hereditaments in Staynton [Stainton, N.R.], of the yearly value of £6-15-6. E(a) : Talbott Bowes, esq., & others. E(b) : 3 July, 35Eliz. [1593]. E(d) : Cf.Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz., Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F : £8-13-3 from last part ofpreceding year.

G : £25-19-10 .

J:

But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £17-6-7 (the rent for this year), nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth from Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593], because John Pepper answers below30for the same rent from the said Michaelmas, 35 Eliz., and thereafter is answerable to the Queen by another commission . And they [tenants] owe £8-13-3 .

On4Nov., 36Eliz. [1594], theydeliveredthis sum intheTreasury. And they [tenants] are quit.

*[Seized land. Rental] [26]farm . A: Tenants. B: John Talbott, gent. , recusant C : £8 D : Two-thirds of the lands in Otteringham [South Otterington , N.R.] let to farm to Roger Talbott, his brother, for an annual rent of £5-10s , they being ofthe yearly value of £12 (so found by the verdict of Christopher Bowes & others, jurors, taken on 17April, 34 Eliz [1592] before RobertRookeby & other commissioners assigned for this inquiry) E(d) : as in entry [25]. F : £ 12 from previous years. G: £20.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £10-16-8 (i.e. part oftheabove rent duefrom theaforesaiddateofseizure³¹ to Michaelmas this year, 36 Eliz), nor ought £4-6-8 (viz. part of the said annual rent of £8) to be charged henceforth until 25 March, A.D. 1611 ; by considerationofthe Barons [of the

Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 36 Eliz., Trinity term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And they [tenants] owe £9-3-4.

On 8 Feb., 37 Eliz. [1594/5], they delivered this sum in the Treasury. And they [tenants] are quit.

*[Seized land. Rental]

[27]farm A: Tenants. B :

Robert Bowes , recusant C : £2-8-8. D : Two-thirds of a farm in Appleton [Appleton Wiske], of the yearly value of £ 1 ; and of certain lands at Angram Graunge [in Welbury, N.R. Yorks], of the yearly value of £2-13s.; the rent payable to the Queen being 7s. more than as was found & certified on the day & year aforesaid.32 E(d) as in entry [25]. F : £3-13s from previous years. G : £6-1-8.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for £2-8-8 (i.e. the rent due for this year), nor ought the said rent to be charged henceforth, because John Pepper answers below³3for the same rentfrom Michaelmas, 35Eliz [1593], andthereafter is answerable to the Queen by another commission . And they [tenants] owe £3-13s. [Further postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Seized goods & chattels]

[28] Christopher Danby of Scruton, gent, owes £3 , forthe price or value of 2 horses ("duor' equor"") of the same Christopher ; found & certified as above : 32 [ref. as in entry [25], E(d)] [Postscript] And he answers in the following [Recusant] Roll, under" Res' Ebor"" .

*[Seized land Rental]

[29]farm. A : Tenants B : Katherine Radcliffe, recusant C: £2-19-2 & two-thirds of 1d D : Two-thirds of the lordshipor manor of Ugthorpe,with apps ; and of2 messuages in West Barneby, with apps E(a) : Ralph Rookeby, esq., & others. E(b) : 22 May, 35 Eliz [1593]. E(d) : cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Trinityterm, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] F £1-9-7 & one-third of 1d . from preceding year.

G : £4-8-10.

J: But they [tenants] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], nor ought the said rent to be chargedhenceforth, because Brian Metcalfe, gent , answers above34 for £4-8-10 per ann . for this farm [as] from Ladyday, 35 Eliz [1593], and thereafter is answerableto the Queen by another commission

And they [tenants] arequit.

[Seized goods & chattels]

[30] Katherine Radclyff, "spinster" , lately of Ugthorpe in the parish of Lyethe [Lythe], recusant, owes £3-6-8, charged upon

208 ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) YORKS

herself, for the price or value of the goods & chattels ofthe same Katherine ; returned & certified by the aforesaid commissioners, as stated above . 35 [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

*[Seized land. Rental]

[31]farm. A Tenants. B : Grace Lamberte, widow , recusant. C : £1-6-8. D : Two-thirds of a tenement or messuage within the city of Durham, called "Shacklock Hall" . E(a) : Thomas Chaiter, esq , & others E(b) : 25 April, 35 Eliz. [1593] E(d) Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 35 Eliz , Easter term , "Recorda" section rotulet [ ] F : 13s 4d from preceding year. G : £2

[Lease of seized land Rental]36

[32]farm . A Cuthbert Stillingflette , an usher of the chamber royal [lessee]. C : £4-17-9 & farthing D : Two-thirds of certain lands in Bretton, alias Westbretton [Bretton West], Yorks., together with the various other messuages, lands & tenements in Dewsbury & elsewhere in Yorks, specified in the Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz , under " Res' Ebor' " . B : John Bretton, "yoman" , recusant H(b) : From Ladyday, 32 Eliz [1590]. H(c) H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Ebor'" . F: £4-17-9 & 1 farthing from preceding year G : £9-15-7 . J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Lease of seized land Rental]37

[33]farm A: John Sotherne, gent [lessee] C : £10-0-4. D: Two-thirds of the manor of Baronburgh [Barnbrough], and ofother messuages, lands, tenements& hereditaments, with appurtenances, in Baronburgh, Moseley Tyltes, & elsewhere in Yorks B : ThomasMoore, lately of Layton [Leyton], Essex , gent , recusant E(b) : 9 Dec., 33 Eliz [1590]. E(a) : William West, gent , & others H(b) : From Ladyday, 33 Eliz. [1591]. H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) : Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz , under " Adhuc Item Ebor"" . F : £25-0-10from previous years G : £35-1-2

J : On 15 April, 36Eliz [1594], £5-0-2 was paidfrom thisfarm into the Treasury, under the name of Robert Scrope, gent. And on 11 Oct., 36 Eliz. [1594], £5-0-2 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Southerne] owes £25-0-10 . And on 22 May, 35 Eliz. [1593], £5-0-2 was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury And on 12 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £5-0-2 was paid . .. [etc. as above]. And he [Sotherne] owes £15-0-6. But he [Sotherne] ought not to be summoned for this [sum], because answer has been made to the Queen for the said £15-0-6, within a certain total of £20-0-8 levied ("exact")

under the name of the tenants of two-thirds of the aforesaid manor, lands& tenements by Richard Goodderycke , esq , sheriff of this county for the year 33 Eliz cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33Eliz , under"Item Ebor"" . And he [Sotherne] is quit

[Seized land Rental]

[34]farm . A William Hunnis, a gentleman of the chapel royal [lessee ]. C : £8-17-9 & farthing, being part [ofan original rent]of £30-4-5. D : Two-thirdsofanannual rentof£13-6-8 , issuing from a grange called "Branton" , from two-thirds ofa grange called "Barrobie" , and from a grange called "Migtelwhite" [? Micklethwaite], Yorks B : Ann Paver, widow, recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid William Hunnys H(b) : From 26 March, 33 Eliz. [1591] H(d) : £8-17-9 & farthing. H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [33] F : £22-4-5 & two-thirdsof d. from previous years G : £31-2-3 .

[Lease of seized land Rental]

[35]farm . A: William Hunnis .. [etc. as entry[34]]. C: £12-8-10 & farthing, being part [of an original rent] of £30-4-5.

D: Two-thirds of a close called "Bayne landes" of others called "Mylvescott " & "Belvens" ; and of a house , with apps., in Assheton [? Eshton] B : Alice Martin, widow , recusant.

H(a) Aforesaid William Hunnys H(b) : From 26 March, 33 Eliz. [1591] H(c). H(d) : £12-8-10 & farthing

H(e). H(f). H(k) : as in entry [33] F : £31-2-2 from previous years. G : £43-11-0 .

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]].

[Lease of seized land

Rental]

[36]farm . A Ann Twiste, laundress to the Queen [lessee] C : £26-6-8 , being part [of an original rent] of £39-13-4 .

D : Two-thirds of the moiety of a manor or capital messuage, with apps, in Restonin Holdernes [LongRiston, inHolderness] Yorks., called "le hall garthe" ; and of a moiety ofall closes pertaining to the said messuage ; together with the various other messuages, arable, meadow, grazing & pasture land, and hereditaments, with apps , in Yorks, specifiedin thepreceding [Recusant] Roll, under Ebor'" 38 B : Thomas Barnebye of Barnebye [Barnby , W.R.], Yorks. , esq , recusant. H(a) : Aforesaid Ann Twiste her executors & assigns. H(b) : From 26 May, 34 Eliz. [1592]. H(c). H(d) : £26-6-8 . H(e). H(f). H(k) Cf. another part of the present rotulet.39 F: £39-10-0 from previous years. G: £65-16-91.

J: On 8 Nov., 34Eliz [1592], £13-3-4 , ofa totalof£19-16-9 , was paidfrom this farm into the Treasury. And she [Twiste] owes £52-13-5. And she answers under " Res' Ebor " . [L. Margin] Paid for Michaelmas, 34 [Eliz.], by tally raisedon 8 Nov., 34 [Eliz .], £13-3-4 ofa totalof£19-16-9.40

t[Lease of seized land

[37]farm.

Rental]

A: John Pepper, gent [lessee ]. C : £2-8-8 . D:

Two-thirds of a certain farm in Appleton, Yorks , of which Robert Bowes was possessed at the time of his conviction, of the yearly value of £1 (of which the two thirds due to the Queen amount to 13s 4d.) ; and two-thirdsoflandat("apud")

Angram Graunge [later Ingram Grange, Welbury, N.R., Yorks], with apps , of which the said Robert was seized atthe time of his conviction , of which the yearly value (charges deducted) is £2 13s. (£1-15-4 per ann due to the Queen). B : Robert Bowes ofAppleton, Yorks, gent , recusant E(b): 17 April, 34 Eliz. [1592] E(a) : Robert Rookesby & others. H(a) Aforesaid John Pepper, his executors& assigns H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz , under "Ebor'" . :

J : [Postscripts as under entry[3]]

†[Lease ofseized land Rental] [38]farm . A: John Pepper, gent [lessee ] C : £17-6-7 . D :

All the various lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps. , in Danby Yore [Danby upon Yore], in Northriddinge[North Riding], Yorks , of which Margaret Scroope , lately of Danby Yore in the parish of Thorneton Steward, widow, recusant, is seised in her demesne as of freehold estate ("ut de libero tenemento"), of the value, in all issues, charges deducted ("valen' in omnibus exit' ultra repris""), of £10-11-1 ; also all the various lands, tenements & hereditaments in Staynton [Stainton], Yorks., of which the said Margaret is seised as above, oftheclearyearly value("valen'per ann'inomnibusexit' ultra repris'") of £6-15-6; the above being two-thirds ofthe lands & possessions of ... B : The said MargaretScroope of Danby Yore aforesaid, recusant E(b) : 3 July, 35 Eliz. [1593] E(a) : Talbott Bowes, gent , & others H(a) : as in entry [37]. H(b) : From Michaelmas, 35 Eliz [1593]. H(c). H(d) as C. H(e). H(k) : as in entry[37]. : J: On 29 April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £8-13-3 was paidfrom this farm into theTreasury. Andon4 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £8-13-31 was paid ... [etc. as above] And he [Pepper] isquit.

[rotulet 8, dorse]

[Arrearage ofrent]

(" Res' Ebor'")

[39] A Tenants of two-thirds of the lands & tenements of .. B : John Ingleby of London, gent , recusant D : The tithes ofwool & lambs belonging to the rectory of Rudbie [Rudby-inCleveland], and the tithes of grain & hay in Pottoe, being a parcel of the said rectory; also other lands, tenements & hereditaments, with apps , in Yorks, & in the city of York.

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS 211

F : £6-16-8, being part of a rent of £13-13-4 , viz. the rent due from this property for the half-year ending Ladyday, 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Ebor'" 41

J: Andthey [tenants] answer in thefollowing [Recusant] Roll, under" Res' Ebor'" .

[Arrearage ofrent]

[40] A Tenants of two-thirds of the lands & tenements of . B : Thomas Ingleby of London, gent , recusant. D : The manor of Clapham, & lands & tenements in "le Eldrothe" & Landshawe [Lanshaw], with apps , in Yorks. F : £2, being part of a certain rent of £4, viz the rent due from this property forthe half-year ending Ladyday, 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : as in entry [39].41

[Record ofannual finepaid]

[41] A JohnSayer, esq Ĉ D : £260 H. E : From 12 Sept., 35 Eliz., [1593] to 11 Sept. 36 Eliz [1594], i.e. for 13 [lunar] months K. G.

O : On ult. April, 36 Eliz. [1594], £140 waspaid into theTreasury. And on 6 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £120was paid .... [etc. as above]. And he is quit

* [Lease ofseized land Rental]

[42]farm . A Roger Gifford, esq , doctor of medicine [lessee]. C: £7-15-6 for Michaelmas, 36 Eliz [1594], being part ofan annual rent of £15-11s. from the farm of ... D : The manors of Dalden [? Dalton le Dale], Magna Chilton and Coxhowe [Coxhoe], lands & tenements in Thorpe Thewles, Darlyngton and Elton, and the whole manor of Blackeston ; with alltheir rights, members & appurtenances in the Bishopric ofDurham (" in episcopatu Dunolm'") : that is to say,42 two-thirds of the manors of Blackeston & Magna Chilton, Coxhowe and Dalden, in Co. Durham(" in com' Dunolm'") aforesaid, and of various messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments in Blakeston, Magna Chilton, Coxhowe, Dalden, Thorpe Thewles, Darlyngton & Dinsdale [Low Dinsdale], or in some of these places (" seu in ear' aliqua"), in Co. Durham aforesaid : the above being two-thirds of the lands & possessions of . .. B : William Blackiston, esq., recusant. E(b) : 27 June 35 Eliz. [1593] E(a) Ralph Bowes, esq , & others. H(a) : Aforesaid Roger Gifford, his executors & assigns. H(b) : From Ladyday, 36 Eliz [1594]. H(c). H(d) : £15-11s. H(e). H(k) Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 36 Eliz, under 'Episcopatus Dunolm'" . "

[Statement ofsheriff's arrears]

[43] A The same sheriff, viz. Ralph, Lord Ewre. B [2] £8 (Dutton) ; [3] £68-6-8 (Waterton's tenants) ;

ROLL 2. MICH. 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4) YORKS

[5] £17-15-8 (Procter's tenants) ; [6] £17-15-8 (Wentworth's tenants) ; [7] 16s. (Granger's tenants) ; [10] £95-11-1 (Stere) ; [11] £20 (Stere) ; [16] £ 121-12-6 (Manckton's tenants) ; [17] £6 (Ellerker's tenants) ; [18] £1-10s (Bellowes' tenants) ; [19] £33-6-8 (Twiste) ; [21] £31-4-10 (Bellamye) ; [22] £6-16-8 (Royston's tenants) ; [24] 10s 10d. (Smythson's tenants) ; [27] £3-13s. (Bowes' tenants) ; [30] £3-6-8 (Radcliffe); (32) £9-15-7 (Stillingflette) ; [35] £43-11-0 (Hunnis) ; [37] £2-8-8 (Pepper).

C : £492-1-8 .

D [11] On 28 May, 37 Eliz. [1595], £20 was paid into the Treasury under the name of William Stere.

[10] On 22 May, 35 Eliz [1593], £23-17-10 (ofa debt of £95-11-12) was paid ... [etc. as above], underthename of William Stere.

[3] On 12 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £17-1-8 (of a debt of £68-6-8) was paid ... [etc.], for Waterton's tenants , under the name ofEdward Byrde & others . And on May, 36 Eliz [1594], £12-1-8 was paid ..

[etc.], under the name ofEdwardByrde& others. And on 4 Nov., 36 Eliz [1594], £22-1-8 was paid .. [etc], under the name of the tenantsof Mary Waterton.

[21] On 12 Nov., 35 Eliz [1593], £7-16-4 (of a debt of £31-4-10 ) was paid ...[etc.] under the name ofJames Bellamye.

[30] On4 Nov., 36Eliz [1594], £3-6-8 was paid ... [etc.], under the name ofKatherine Radclyffe.

[10] On 22 Nov., 36 Eliz. [1593], £23-17-10 was paid . .. [etc.], under the name ofWilliam Stere.

Andon ult May 37Eliz [1595], £23-17-10 waspaid .

[etc.], under the name ofWilliam Stere.

Andon 20 Nov., 37Eliz [1594], £23-17-10 was paid ...

[etc.], under the name of WilliamStere.

[21] On2 May, 36Eliz [1594], £7-16-4 was paid ... [etc.], under the name ofJames Bellamye.

[19] On 2 May, 36 Eliz. [1594], £6-13-4 (of a debt of £31-6-8 [sic]) was paid ... [etc.], under the name of Ann Twiste

[22]The tenants of Edward Royston answer for their debt of £6-16-8 in the following [Recusant] Roll, under Ebor"" , after theirfarm . 43 "

[6] The tenants of Matilda Wentworth answer for their debt of £17-15-8 in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz., under " Ebor"" , after their farm 43

[16] The tenants of Christopher Manckton answerfor their debt of £121-12-6 in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under Ebor " , after their farm. 43 "

[44]

E : And he [sheriff] owes £153-7-10% .

And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz., under " Res" Ebor'" .

[Arrearage ofrent]

A William Steare [lessee ] D.1 : Two-thirds of certain lands in Carleton [Carlton], with appurtenances, in Yorks. , ofthe yearlyvalue of £44-8-10 & farthing ; together with various other messuages, lands & tenements, with apps , in Eastlayton, Yorks. B.1 : George Cattrick, gent , recusant D.2 Two-thirds of various messuages, lands & tenements , with apps., in Barforth B.2 : Elizabeth Pudsey, widow , recusant F : £87-15-6 & farthing, for Philip Constable, esq., sheriffofthe year 32 Eliz (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 32 Eliz, under " Item Ebor'"), viz the rent for the said propertyfor one whole year ending at Michaelmas, 32 Eliz. [1590] (cf. Great [Pipe]Roll, 32 Eliz , under " Ebor"")

J: But he [Steare] ought not to be summoned for this [rent], because answer has beenmadeto theQueenfor thesaid£87-15-6 & farthingby Sir John Dawney, knt , sheriffofthis countyfor the year 31 Eliz , in 2 parcels, under the name of the tenants of two-thirds of the lands & tenements of the aforesaid separate recusants ; cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz., under " Item Ebor"" . And he [Steare] is quit

[Arrearage ofrent]

[45] A Ann Twiste, laundress to the Queen [lessee] D : Twothirds ofa moiety of a manor or capitalmessuage, with apps., in Reston in Holdernes, Yorks , called "le hall garthe" , and of a moiety of all closes pertaining to the said messuage ; together with the various other messuages, and arable, meadow , grazing & pasture land, and hereditaments, with apps., in Yorks., specified in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under 'Ebor 38 B : ThomasBarneby of Barneby [Barnby, W.R.], Yorks , esq. , recusant F : £52-13-5, of a certain annual rent of £26-6-8 , viz. the rent due from this property for 2 whole years ending at Michaelmas, 36 Eliz. [1594] : cf. preceding rotulet for this county . 44 £12-13-545 to be rendered to the Queen in the Michaelmas term following the 26th day of May, 37 Eliz [1595], and thereafter £13-6-8 in each Michaelmas term, untilfull satisfaction & payment shall have been made to the Queen for the said debt of £52-13-5, without further delay; for which payment Thomas Barneby of Barneby Hall, Yorks , esq., Thomas Twiste ofEltham , Kent , esq, & Thomas Barneby of Selby, Yorks. , gent. , are bound by recognisance;46 cf. Memoranda Roll, Q.R., 37 Eliz, Easter term, "Recogniciones" section, rotulet ( ). J: And she [Twiste] answers in the following [Recusant] Roll , under " Res' Ebor'" .

[Arrearage ofrent]

[46] A Tenants D : Two-thirds of a messuage & 11 oxgangs of land in Thorneton , Yorks. F : £2-13-4 for Richard Goodricke , esq , sheriff of the year 33 Eliz. (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz., under " Item Ebor" "), viz the rent duefrom this property for the year 33 Eliz. (cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 33 Eliz. , under Ebor "). B : Dorothy Hunter, recusant, who is indebted to the Queen in the sum of £140 , by virtue of the aforesaid Act.4

J : But they [tenants] ought not to be summonedfor this [rent], because James Bellamy answers in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Ebor""47for an annual rent of £19-12-6 for this & otherfarms from 3 Aug., 32 Eliz [1590] ; and thereafter has been answerable to the Queen by another commission . And they [tenants] are quit.

[rotulet26] ("Adhuc Res' Ebor"")

[Enrolments of estreated convictions for recusancy]48 [47] A Elizabeth Lawson of Broughe in the parish of Cattericke, North Riding, Yorks. , alias Elizabeth Lawson, wife of Ralph Lawson, esq. B. D : £ 120 F : £60. G. H. J : For 3 months next following 1 April, 36 Eliz [1594] L : £60 .

M : Monday, 15 July, 36 Eliz [1594] N : From date of convictionto7Oct. nextfollowing, i.e. for 3 [lunar] months. O.

Ursula Cholmeley, wife of Marmaduke Cholmeley, lately of Brandesby [Brandsby], esq .. owes £120forthelike.

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 13 Charles I, Easter term , "Recorda" section, rotulet[ ] Andshe is quit.

Katherine Metham, wife of Thomas Metham ofWigginthorpe [Wigganthorpe], esq.

Joan Gascoigne , wife of Richard Gascoigne ofSedbury, esq.

Margaret Francke, wife of Henry Francke ofMiddletonTyas, esq.

Jane Wraye, wife of William Wraye of "St. Nicholas juxta Richemonde"

[par. of St. Nicholas, Richmond], esq

Ann Smith, wife of Richard Smith of Exton [Egton], "yoman"

Dorothy Salvyn, wife ofRalphSalvyn of Newbiggin , esq .

Winifred Mennell , wife of Thomas Mennell of Kilvington, esq.

]49£120forthelike.

Mary Greene , wife of James Greene of Lanmouth[Landmoth] esq.

owes £120forthe like.

[Postscript] But she oughtnot to besummonedforthis [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 40 Eliz. , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And she is quit.

Jane Danby, wife of Thomas Danby ofLeake , esq.

Mary Strangewishe, wife of William Strangewishe of Aclam [Acklam], gent.

Bridget Beaseley, wife of Edward Beaseley ofSkelton , gent.

ThomasMennell ofKilvington,esq.

Richard Talbott of Thornton in le Streete , gent

Richard Danby of Newparke in the parish of Waffam [? Masham], gent

120 for thelike

[Postscript]But heoughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Item AdhucItem Item Item Res' Ebor"" , in another debt of the same Richard . 50 And he isquit.

William Sawden of Fowbrise [?Foulrice] "yoman" .

John Lockwood ofSowerbye, gent

John Sayer ofWorsall, esq

[Postscript] And he answers in [Recusant] Roll, 37 Eliz , under Res' Ebor'" .

John Hodgeson of Gromonde [Grosmont], "yoman" .

WilliamPhillippeofDanby,"yoman" [ ]

Isabel Taylor, lately of Staythes [Staithes], widow

Robert Bowes , lately of Appleton [on Wiske], "yoman"

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 12 James I, under" Ebor"" , in thefarm ofJames Sisson And heis quit

Jane Stockton, lately of Potta [? Potto], widow . [ ] £ 120 for thelike.

Katherine Ratcliffe, lately of Ugthorpe, "spinster"

[Postscript] But she ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 3 James I, under " Adhuc Res' Ebor'" , in another debt of the same

Katherine Radcliff . And she is quit.

Francis Aslaby of Mowgrave [Hutton Mulgrave], gent. .

Henry Thorney, lately of Mowgrave, gent

Wilstropp Redman, lately of Borowby [Borrowby] gent.

[ ] £120 for thelike. [ ] » " " " owes

John Fowlthorpe of Barnaby, gent.

John Bowes of Ellerbeck, gent

[Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Item Adhuc Item Res' Ebor"" , in another debt of the same Welstroppe . 51 And he is quit [ ] £120 for thelike.

Christopher Conyers , lately of Huton Benvell [Hutton Bonville] esq.

]

[Postscript] But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt]. for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Item AdhucItem Item Item Res' Ebor"" , in another debt of the same Christopher Conyers 55 And he is quit.

Margaret Mennell, lately of North Kilvington, widow

owes £120 forthelike.

[Postscript] But she oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 4 James I, Easterterm , "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ]. And she is quit.

John Ingleby, lately of Huton [Hutton] Rudby, esq. owes £120forthelike.

[Postscript]But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in another part of the present rotulet , 53 in another debt ofJohn Ingleby of Ripley

Margaret Scroope, lately of Danby on Yore, widow

Christopher Scroope, lately ofthe same , gent

Margaret Catterick , lately of Carleton , widow .

Thomas Tanckard, lately of Branton [Brampton, N.R.], gent ..

] £120 for thelike.

Andhe is quit. "

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Item Adhuc Item Res' Ebor " , in another debt of the same 54 And he is quit.

Christopher Awderson of Swinton , "yoman"

Christopher Nicholsonlate ofAudbrough [Aldbrough], "yoman"

Gilbert Metcalffe, lately of Hoodegraunge[Hoodgrange], gent

A: Thomas Barnabye of Cawthorne [W.R.], esq. C. D :

£140. F : £80 G. H. J : For 4 months next following 18 March, 36 Eliz [1593/4]. L, M, N and O: as under Elizabeth Lawson above . P: Buthe oughtnot to besummoned forthis [debt], forareason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 40 Eliz., under " Item Adhuc Res' Ebor"" , in thefarm of Robert Redhead. And he is quit

Beatrice Barmbye, his wife

Lady Ann Wodroffe , wife of Richardof Wolley[Woolley in Royston], gent [

George Anne of Frickley, esq.

Richard Fenton ofAttercliffe

Jervase Anne of Frickley, gent.

Richard Fenton of the same , gent

William Rawson of Sheffeld [Sheffield], "yom'"

[rotulet 26, dorse]

LaurenceClayton ofAttercliffe

Ann Clayton, his wife

JohnEveringhamofKnottingley, gent

William Stephenson ofSwynflete [Swinefleet], "yoman"

Grace Lunde, wife of Robert Lunde of the same

Thomas Heptenstall ofDarryngton .

Helen Heptenstall, his wife

Ann Rawson ofWomersley, widow

Margaret Sale, wife of Thomas Sale of the same

[ ]55 Methame, wife of Gregory Methame of Pollington, gent.

Owes

for the like

ThomasLeedes , senior ofNorthmylfurth [North Milford], gent [Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under" Item Aduc Res' Ebor'" , in another debt ofthe same Thomas . 56 And he is quit.

Thomas Leedes,junior, ofthe same, gent [ ] £ 140 forthelike.

Mary Leedes , his wife

Elizabeth Stapleton, wife of Richard Stapleton of Carleton [Carlton], gent

Dorothy Walker, wife of John Walker of the same , "yoman"

Francis Baxter of Draxe, gent.

[ ]

55 Baxter , hiswife

. owes £140 forthe like.

[Postscript] 57Total of these two debts=£280 . But they ought not to be summoned for these debts, for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under " Res Ebor"" , in another debt of the aforesaidFrancis Baxter . 58 And they are quit.

John Trimingham, junior, of the same , . [ ] £140 for the like.

gent

Margaret Hungate, wife of William Hungate of Huddleston , esq.

Ann Rawson of Shereborne [Sherburn] widow .

[

Postscript] But she oughtnot tobesummoned for this [debt], for a reasonreferred to in [Recusant] Roll, 42 Eliz., under " Item Adhuc Res' Ebor'" , in another debt of the same

Ann . Owes 33

Peter Witham ofLedsham , gent.

Elizabeth Cowpeland ofthe same, widow

John Bretton of Sandall, gent.

Frances Bretton, his wife .

And she is quit

] £140 for thelike.

[Postscript]But she oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in the preceding [Recusant] Roll, under Adhuc Res' Ebor"" , in another debt of the same . 59 And she is quit. "

Francis Jackson of Sharleston , gent.

Jane Jackson, hiswife

William Gascoigne of Thorpe super Montem [Thorpe-on-the-Hill], gent. [ ]

Christopher Milburne of Rodwell [Rothwell], "yoman"

Eleanor Parker, wife ofEdmund Parker ofthe same , "yoman"

Anthony West of Leedes [Leeds], "yoman" . Jane Lee , wife of Gilbert Lee of the same , gent.

William Calverley ofCalverley,gent.

£140 for the like

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 2 James I, under "Ebor"" , in the farm of Ambrose Astell, gent. And heisquit.

Katherine Calverley, hiswife . owes £140forthelike. [Postscript]But she oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reasonreferred to below , in another debt ofthesame . And she is quit.

Isabel Draxe, wife of Gamaliel of Middleton , esq.

Thomas Gelstroppeof Kirkeby, gent. [ ] £140 forthelike owes60

ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ (1593-4)

John Ingleby ofRipley, gent. YORKS 219 owes £140forthe like. [Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer]; cf. Memoranda Roll, "on the side ofthe Second Remembrancer in the Exchequer" , 61 A.D. 1649, Hilary term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ] And he is quit.

Elizabeth Yorke ofthe same , widow [ ] £ 140 for thelike.

Frances Watson of Kyllinghall [Killinghall], "spinster"

Robert Beane ofthe same , "clothier"

Jane Withes, wife of Simon Withes of Clint

Eleanor Atkynson of the same, widow

Elizabeth Eglesthroppe, wife of Michael Eglesthroppe ofThorner,gent.

George Suttill of Hampsthwayte, gent

Ann Burton, wife of Cuthbert Burton of the same, "yoman"

Jane Beckwythe of Burrowbrigges [Boroughbridge], "spinster"

Jane Tanckard, wife of William Tanckard of the same , gent

James Tanckard, junior, of the same , gent.

Barbara Mease , wife of Marmaduke Mease of Kirkestanley [North Stainley], "tanner"

ThomasAtkynson ofthe same, "taylor"

Jane Bickerdick , wife ofEdward Bicker-

dike ofFarneham [Farnham], gent. [

Mary Bickerdike ofthe same , "spinster"

Mary Knarisbrough, wife of Walter Knarisbrough of

[Ferrensby], gent.

Fermsbie

Peter Knarisbrough of Knaresbrough

[Knaresborough], gent

Katherine Knarisbrough, his wife

William Wilson of the same , "Mason" . [

John Casse of the same , "draper"

Marmaduke Redman of Thorneton , esq

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 7 James I, under Ebor'" , in the farm of the tenants of the lands of the aforesaid Marmaduke. And he is quit.

Thomas Redman of the same , gent. [ ] £140 for the like.

MargeryRedman of the same, "spinster" [ ]

Richard Cholmeley of Bentham , gent. owes

,,

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt],

220 ROLL 2. MICH 35-36 ELIZ. (1593-4) YORKS by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 40 Eliz., Trinity term , "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. Andhe isquit.

Katherine Constable, wife of Robert Constable of the same , gent.

Isabel Yorke of Burnesall [Burnsall], widow .

Katherine Tempest, wife of Stephen Tempest of Broughton, gent. [ ] £140 for thelike

Isabel Tempest, wife of Henry Tempest [ ] "

" " " [ ] 29 " " " [ ]

Henry Tempest ofthe same, gent. 33

Frances Breers, wife of Oliver Breers of

Easington, gent. [ ] 23 دو " " ofthe same , esq.

Alice Lyster, wife of Thomas Lysterof owes £140 for thelike. Gisburne , esq.

[

Postscript]But she oughtnot to besummoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 41 Eliz., Hilary term, "Recorda" section , rotulet [ ] And she isquit

Richard Jacksonof Farburne [Fairburn], "yoman"

John Belhouse of Saxton, "yoman" [ ] £140 for thelike. owes

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 40 Eliz, Easter term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. And he is quit

Janet ("Jenetta") Belhouse, hiswife [ ] £140 for thelike.

William Belhouse of the same, "yoman" owes 99

"

[Postscript] But he oughtnot to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 2 James I, under Adhuc Res' Ebor"" , in a debt of John Belhouse . " And he is quit.

62A: Thomasina Gale, lately of Wilberfosse, Yorks , widow. B. D £20 G. H. E : For 1 month next following 28 June, 37 Eliz. [1595]

A Clement Hodgeson , lately of Allerton Graunge, West Riding, Yorks. B. D : £60 G. H. E : For 3 months next following 22 Feb., 38 Eliz [1595/6]

Katherine Hodgeson , wife of the said Clement, lately ofthe same

Elizabeth Oglethorppe, wife of Michael Oglethorppe ofThorner, gent.

Adriana Wetherell, latelyofKelfeild

Elizabeth Read, lately of the same , "spinster"

ThomasLeedes , latelyofMilforde63 [ ] £60 for thelike.

" " " " . [ ] 33 33 33 "

Ann Colthirste, lately of Edesforth, in the parish of Mitton,

Yorks. B. D : £240. E : For 12 months next following 1 Feb., 37 Eliz. [1594/5]. M: 22 May, 38 Eliz. [1596].

64A: William Calverley, lately of Calverley, gent C. D: £160. F £120. G. H. J: For 6 months next following 20 Sept., 32 Eliz. [1590]. L : £40 M : Monday, 26 July, 33 Eliz. [1591]. N : From date of conviction to 20Sept., next following, i.e. for 2 [lunar] months O.

65Katherine, wife of the said William owes £160for thelike. [Postscript] But she oughtnotto be summoned forthis [debt], by consideration of the Barons Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 11 "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]

64A: The same William Calverley. C. D : £40. F : £20 G. H. J For 1 month next following 1 Feb., 34 Eliz. [1591/2]. L : £20. M: Monday in the 4th week of Lent, 34 Eliz [1591/2] N : From date of conviction to 3 April next following, i.e. for 1 [lunar] month. O.

65Katherine , his wife [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Charles I, Hilary term, And she is quit. owes £40for thelike. [Postscript] But she oughtnot to besummoned forthis [debt], for a reason referred to immediately above, in anotherdebt of the same Katherine. And she is quit. Thomas Hopton, lately of Felkirke, Yorks., "yoman" . owes £40 forthe like. [Postscript] But he oughtnotto be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 6James I,under " Ebor"" , in thefarm of William Found And he is quit

Text as C.R.S. , XVIII, p 44, 1. 11 seq.

3Text as op cit , p 45, 1. 6 seq to "cxl.l. virtute"

28 Eliz., cap 6. Text as op cit , p 45, 1. 13 seq as op cit , p 45, 1. 36 seq.

8Text as op . cit , p 46, 1. 28 seq

10Text as op cit , p 47, 1. 28 seq.

2Cf. entry [43] *The Act "Text

12Text as op cit , p 50, 1. 1 seq. "Text as op cit , p 46, 1. 1 seq . Text as op cit , p 47 , 1. 4 seq 11Cf op. cit , p. 49 , 1. 31 seq. 13Cf . op. cit, p. 50 , 1. 13 seq. 15Text

16Textasop. cit,

17Text as op cit, 18Text as op. cit.,

14Text as op. cit., p 50, 1. 44 seq to " in Res' Ebor'" as op cit., p. 51, 1. 22 seq to" in Res' Ebor"" p 51, 1. 44 seq to "Sancti Mich' rotulo" p 53, 1. 32 seq. to " recusancie sue ibid'" p 53, 1. 42 seq to " capt' et seisit' ibid' . 19Cf. op. cit., p 54 , 20See entry [36]. 1. 8 seq 21"£20" (by calculation). Figures illegible in MS 22Cf . op. cit.,p. 56, 1. 45 seq. 23Et quietus est" in MS, for " quieti sunt" (i.e. Bayley& Thorney, the lessee-farmersoftheproperty) 24Text as op. cit., p. 59 , 1.4 seq. to " temporeexisten' 25Cf. op cit,p 50 , 1. 13 seq ., and entry [13] above 26Text as op cit , p. 68, I. 20 seq. to"virtute Act' pred'" . 27Cf. entry [43]. 28Cf. op cit., p 69, 1. 23 seq 29Text as op. cit., p 70, 1. 17 seq. to "xxxiijcio Regine huius" .

30Cf. entry [38]. 311.e., 17th April 1592 (same day as verdict). 33See entry [37].

34Cf. entry [23]. 35Cf. entry [29],

37Cf . op. E(a), (b) and (d) cit., p. 67, 1. 38

36Cf. op cit , p 45, 1. 19 seq seq . 38Cf. op cit, p 54 , 1. 8 seq . postscript 40"Sol pro Festo Mich' 34 No 34: £13-3-4 ob' infra Summam £19-16-9"

39Cf. entry [19], per tall' levat' 8 in MS. 41Cf . 321.e. , on 17 April 1592. Cf. entry [26], D.

op cit , p 52, 1. 13 seq . 42The passage which follows is merely a more precise statement of the preceding part ofthe specification 43Note in L.Margin : It is answered ("r[espondet]ur"). Thesheriff (Ewre) was therefore discharged of this amount. 44Cf. entry [36], postscript 45Text of the following passage : "Reddendo inde domine Regine a xxvjto die Maii Anno xxxvijmo videlicet termino sancti MichaelisArchangeli proxim' futur' xij. 1. xiij.s. v.d. Ac in quolibet termino sancti Michaelis Archangeli tunc proxim' futur' xiij.1. vjs viij.d. quousque eidem domine Regine de dictis lij.1. xiij.s. v.d. plenar fuerit Satisfact' et persolut' sine ulterior' dilacione per manuc' Thome Barneby de Barneby Hall in Com' Ebor Ar Thome Twiste de Eltham in Com' Kanc' Ar' et Thome Barnebyde Selby in Com' Ebor' generos'" . 46Lit.; "by the mainprise (manucaptionem) of Thomas Barneby" etc. 47Cf. op cit , p 50, 1. 13 seq 48All items under this heading, to William Belhouse inclus, are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued ("fi[at] Commissio"). 49The brackets here and in items below indicate a space left in MS for the later insertion (when required) of the word " deb'" (owes) Cf. Introd, p. xcix . 50The reference states: "But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 9 James I, under" Adhuc Res' Ebor'" , in the farmof the tenants of the lands of the same Richard Andhe is quit" (op cit , p 97)

51Thereference states : "But he ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 42 Eliz , Michaelmas term , "Recorda" section . And he is quit " (op. cit, p. 88) 52The reference states : "But he ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by consideration of the Barons [of the Exchequer ] ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 12 James I, Easter term, "Recorda" section And he is quit" . (op cit , p 100). 53See p 219. reference states : "But he ought not to be summoned for this [debt], by consideration of the Barons ; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 40 Eliz, Michaelmasterm, "Recorda" section And he is quit" . (op. cit, p. 86) 55Spaceleft in MSfor Christian name 56The reference states : "But he ought not to be summonedforthis [debt], by consideration of the Barons; cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R. , 4 James I, Hilary term, "Recorda" section . And he is quit' (op cit, p. 82) 57This postscript refers to Baxter & his wife : the items are bracketed , R. , in MS 58The reference states : "But he ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by considerationof the Barons ; cf. MemorandaRoll, L.T.R., 41 Eliz , Easter term, "Recorda" section . And he is quit" (op cit, p 73) 59The reference states : "But she ought not to be summonedfor this [debt], by considerationof the Barons ; cf. Memoranda Roll , L.T.R., 44 Eliz., Hilaryterm, "Recorda" section And she is quit ' " (op cit , p 75) 60Sic in MS : the word "deb'" should have been omitted here, accordingto normal practice 61"ex parte secundi Rem' in Scaccario" in MS : this substitutetitle for the old L.T.R. appears regularly on the rolls of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 62This and the following items, to Ann Colthirste, inclus., are bracketed , L., with the note : Let a commission be issued 63Probably by an oversight, the phrase "lx.1. pro consimili" has been omitted here 64These two items are bracketed, R., with the note : Total of these 2 debts-£200 But he [William Calverley] ought not to be summoned for these debts, for a reason referred to in [Recusant] Roll, 2 James I, under " Ebor"" , in the farm of Ambrose Astell, gent And he is quit 65These

54The 2 items,withtheir postscripts , are later insertionsin the roll by one and the same clerk (probably temp. Charles I)

WALES ("Wallia")

[GLAMORGANSHIRE]

[Lease ofseized land. Rental]¹ [1] farm . A John Griffen, servant to the Queen [lessee] C : £2-19-6 . D.1 : Two-thirds of 40 acres of land in Glam., of the yearlyvalue of £1-6-8 . B.1 : William Thomas, lately of Whitchurch, "yoman" , recusant D.2 : Two-thirds of 122 acres of land in Glam., of the yearly value of £1-4s. B.2 : Robert Thomas, jun , of Colston [? Colwinston], "yoman" , recusant D.3 : Two-thirds of a messuage, with certain lands, at Langwich [Llangewydd], Glam. , ofthe yearly valueof2s.2 d. & two-thirds of d B.3 : "Llen'" John, lately of Haleston [? Laleston], Glam, recusant D.4 : Two-thirds ofa tenement called "Fortche Tom" [? Tonmawr, or Fforchdwm ] in the parish of Michelston [Michaelston] on Avon, of the yearly value of 2s. 2 d. & two-thirds of d.; and of a tenement in the parish of Margan [Margam], Glam., of the yearly value of4s. 5d.& two-thirdsof d B.4 : Edward DioJohn, recusant H(b) From 5 Sept., 32 Eliz [1590] H(c). H(d) : as C. H(e). H(k) Cf. Great [Pipe] Roll, 31 Eliz, under "Item Wallia" . F : £10-8-4 from previousyears G : £13-7-11 d.³

[Lease ofseized land Rental]4 [2] farm . A John Cornewall [lessee]. C : £27-12-3

D.1 : Two-thirds of a farm or grange & one windmill called "Llanvithen" [Llanvethyn], in the parish ofLlancarvan [Llancarfan], Glam , in the separate tenures of Anthony Mauxell [? or Manxell], esq., & another person ("& al""), of the yearly value of £13-6-8 ; also of a farm called "Flexland" [Flaxland] in Llancarvan aforesaid, of the yearly value of £3-6-8 ; and other lands B.1 : William Griffithe of Llancarvan aforesaid, gent., recusant D.2 Two-thirds of a messuage & 30 acres of land, with appurtenances, in Llanbetherne [Llanbethery] in the parish of Llancarvan aforesaid, in the tenure of Mary George, widow, of the yearly value of £2-4-5 B.2 : Lewis Turbervile ofLlancarvan aforesaid, gent., recusant. D.3 : Twothirds of a tenement & lands, with apps , called "Foyghe Thomissa" in the parish of Mighleston [Michaelston] on Avon , Glam . , of the yearly value of 3s 4d B.3 : David ap Jevanof Morgan, Glam , gent , recusant H(b) : From Ladyday, 31 Eliz. [1589]. H(c) H(d) : as C. H(e) H(k) : as in entry[1]. F : £124-4-9 from previous years . G: £151-16-11³

[CARMARTHENSHIRE]

[Seized land. Rental]5

[3] farm . A Tenants B : Erasmus Saunders, lately ofPannyngham [Raveningham], Norfolk, gent , recusant. C : £5-4s. D: Two-thirds of certain lands & tenementsin theparishesof Eglewyskymmyn [Eglwys Cymmin], Pendyne [Pendine] & Laugharne, Co. Carmarthen E(a) : Robert Barrett, gent , & others. E(b) : 26 May, 34 Eliz. [1592]. E(d) : Cf. preceding [Recusant] Roll, under "Wallia" F : £7-16s from previous years. G : £13.3

[PEMBROKESHIRE]

[Seized land. Rental]6

[4] farm. A: Tenants B: Aforesaid Erasmus Saunders , recusant. C : 10s. 8d D : Two-thirds of a water-mill, and of various lands, tenements & hereditaments in the parishes of Cronwer [Crunwere] & Temby [Tenby], Co. Pembroke E(a) : John Price, esq , & others E(b) 24 May, 34 Eliz. [1592] E(d) : as in entry [3] F : 16s from previous years . G : £1-6-8.3

[CARNARVONSHIRE]

*[Seized land Rental]

[5] farm . A : Tenants . B : John Wynn ap Robert. C : 6s 8d D: Two-thirdsofa messuage & certain lands called"Maysog" [Maesog], containing ("contin' in se") 6 acres of land E(a): Robert Wynn ap Eliza, esq., & others E(b): 10 Aug., 34 Eliz [1592]. E(d) : Cf. Memoranda Roll, L.T.R., 34 Eliz. , Michaelmas term, "Recorda" section, rotulet [ ]. F : 10s from previous years. G : 16s 8d.3

†[Lease ofseized land Rental]

[6] farm . A: Robert Griffithe, gent. [lessee ]. C : 6s 8d

D: Two-thirds of a messuage & certain [? lands] and [ ], 7 called "Mayssog" , containing about 6 acres of land ("sive plus sive minus"), of the yearly value of 10s , in the village of Clinnock [Clynnog], Co. Carnarvon, of which John Wynne ap Robert, lately of Clynnock , in the said county, was seised ("seisitus fuit") in his demesne, as of freehold estate, for the term ofhis life. B : The said JohnWynne ap Robert, recusant E(b) 10 Aug., 34 Eliz [1592] E(a) : Robert Wynne ap

Eliza, esq., & others H(a) : Aforesaid Robert Griffithe, his executors & assigns. H(b) From Ladyday, 35 Eliz. [1593] H(c). H(d) as C. H(e) H(k) : Cf. Roll of the Enrolment of Leases, 35 Eliz. , under "Carnarvan" . F : 3s 4d from preceding year. G : 10s.3

1Text as C.R.S., XVIII, p 375, 1. 20 seq to "Item Wallia" 2"xij" in MS : not "xlij" , as in op cit 3This and the other five entries on this rotulet are all bracketed , R., withthe note : And they answer severally in [Recusant] Roll, 38 Eliz , under "Wallia" , for the same separate rents & the arrears . 4Text as op cit., p. 376, 1.3 seq to" sicutcont' ibid'" 5Text as op. cit, p 376 , 1. 26 seq. to " capt' et seisit'" "Text asop.cit , p 376, 1.37 seq to" sicutcont' ibid'" 7 &cert'et [blank]" inMS .

APPENDIX

THE STATUTE OF 1586-7

(28-29 Elizabeth, cap 6)¹

AnActforthe more speedy and dueExecution ofcertain Branches of the Statute made in the twenty-third year of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to retain the Queen'sMajesty's Subjectsin their due Obedience .

For avoiding of all Frauds and Delays heretofore practised, or hereafter to be put in Ure, to the Hindrance ofthe due and speedy Execution of the Statute made in the Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation at Westminster the sixteenth Day of January in the three and twentieth Year of the Reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, intituled, AnActtoretainthe Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience, (2) Be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That every Feoffment, Gift, Grant, Conveyance, Alienation, Estate, Lease, Incumbrance and Limitation of Use, of or out of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever, had or made at any Time since the Beginning of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, or at any Time hereafter to be had or made, by anyPersonwhich hath not repaired or shall not repair to some Church, Chapel or usual Place of Common Prayer, but hath forborn or shall forbearthe same, contraryto the Tenor ofthe said Statute, (3) and whichis or shall be revocable at the PleasureofsuchOffender, (4) or in any wisedirectlyorindirectly meant or intended, to or for the Behoof, Reliefor Maintenance, or atthe Dispositionofany suchOffender, (5) orwherewith orwhereby, or in Consideration whereof, such Offender or his Family shall be maintained, relieved or kept ; (6) shall be deemed and taken to be utterly frustrate and void, as against the Queen's Majesty, for or concerning the levying and paying of such Sums of Money, as any such Persons by the Laws or Statutes of the Realm already made ought to pay or forfeit for not coming or repairing to any Church, Chapel, or usual Place of Common Prayer, or for saying, hearing, or being at any Mass ; (7) and shall also be seized and had to and for her Majesty's Use and Behoof, as hereafter in this Act is mentioned ; any Pretence , Colour, feigned Consideration, or expressing ofanyUse, to the contrarynotwithstanding

II

. And further be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Conviction heretofore recorded for any Offence before mentioned, not already estreated or certified into the Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer, shall, from the Justices before

whom theRecord ofsuchConvictionshall be remaining,beestreated and certified into the Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer before the End of Easter Term next coming, in such convenient Certainty for the Time and other Circumstances, as the Court of Exchequer may thereupon award out Process for Seizure of the Lands and Goods ofevery suchOffender as hathnot paid their said Forfeitures, according to the Laws and Statutesin such Case provided ; (2) And that every Conviction hereafter for any Offence before mentioned shall be in the Court commonly called the King's Bench , or atthe Assizes , or General Gaol-Delivery, and not elsewhere , and shall, from the Justices before whom the Record of such Conviction shall remain, be estreatedand certified into the said Court of Exchequer beforethe End ofthe Term next ensuingafter every suchConviction , in suchconvenient certainty as is aforementioned.

III. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid , That everysuchOffender in not repairing to DivineService, butforbearing the same contrary to the said Estatute, as hath been heretofore convicted for such Offence, and hath not made Submission, and been conformable according to the true Meaning ofthesaidStatute , shall, without any other Indictment or Conviction, pay into the Receipt ofthe said Exchequer all such Sums of Moneyas according to the Rate of twenty Pounds for every Month sithence the same Conviction do yet remain unpaid, in Form as hereafter ensueth; that is to say, The one Moiety thereof before the End of the next Trinity Term, and the other Moiety thereofbefore the End of the next Hillary Term, or at any such other Times as by the Lord Treasurer, Chancellor and Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or any two of them, shall, by Composition , upon good Bond and Surety taken, be limited before the End of the said next Trinity Term , if any such Composition shall happen to be ; (2) and shall also, in every Easter and Michaelmas Term, until such Time as the same Person do make Submission and be conformable according to the true Meaning of the said Statute, pay into the said Receipt of the Exchequer twenty Pounds for every Month which shall incur in all that mean Time.

IV . And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every such Offender, in not repairing to Divine Service, but forbearing the same contrary to the said Estatute, as hereafter shall fortune to be thereof once convicted, shall, in such of the Terms ofEaster or Michaelmas as shall be next after suchConviction , pay into the said Receipt of the Exchequer after the Rate of twenty Pounds for every Month whichshall be contained in the Indictment whereupon such Convictionshall be ; (2) and shall also, for every Month after such Conviction , without any other Indictment or Conviction, pay into the Receipt of the Exchequer aforesaid at two Times in the Year, that is to say, in every Easter Term and Michaelmas Term, as much as then shall remain unpaid, after the

Rate of twenty Pounds for Every Month after such Conviction: (3) And ifDefaultshall be made in any Part ofanyPayment aforesaid, contraryto the Form herein before limited, Thatthenandso often theQueen's Majesty shall and may, by Process out ofthe said Exchequer, take, seize and enjoy all the Goods, and two Parts as well of all the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Leases and Farms of such Offender, as of all other the Lands, Tenementsand Hereditaments liable to such Seizure or to the Penalties aforesaid , by the true Meaning of this Act, leaving the third Part only of the same Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Leases and Farms to and for the Maintenance and Relief of the same Offender, his Wife, Children and Family.

V. And for the more speedy Conviction of such Offender , in not repairing to Divine Service , but forbearing the same contrary to the said Estatute ; (2) Be it enacted bythe Authority aforesaid, That the Indictment of every such Offender, mentioningthe not coming of such Offender to the Church of the Parish where such Person at any Time before suchIndictmentwas or did keep House or Residence , nor to any other Church, Chapel, or usual Place of Common Prayer, shall be sufficient in the Law ; (3) and that it shall not be needful to mention in any such Indictment that the Party Offender was or is inhabitingwithin this Realm of England or any other the Queen's Majesty's Dominions (4) But ifit shall happen any such Offender then not to be within this Realm or other her Majesty's Dominions , that in such Case, the Party shall be relieved by Plea to be put in in that Behalfand, not otherwise ; (5) And that uponthe Indictmentof such Offender, a Proclamation shall be made at the same Assizes or Gaol-delivery in which the Indictment shall be taken (if the same be taken at any Assizes or Gaol-delivery), by which it shall be commanded that the Body of such Offender shall be rendered to the Sheriff of the same County, before the said next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery to be holden in the same County ; (6) And if at the said next Assizes or Gaoldelivery the same Offender so proclaimed shall not makeAppearance of Record, that then, upon suchDefaultrecorded, the same shallbe as sufficient a Convictionin Law of the said Offence whereof the Party so standeth indicted, as is aforesaid, as if upon the same Indictment a Trial by Verdict thereupon had proceeded and been recorded.

VI Provided always, That whensoeveranysuch Offender , asis aforesaid, shall make submission, and becomeconformable, according to theForm limited by the same Estatute made in the three and twentiethYear of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, or shall fortuneto die That then no Forfeiture of twenty Pounds for any Month, or Seizure of the Lands of the same Offender, from and after such Submission and Conformity or Death, and full Satisfaction of all the Arrearages of twenty Pounds Monthly, before such Seizure :

due or payable, shall ensue or be continued against such Offender, so long as the same Person shall continue in coming to Divine Service, according to the Intent ofthe said Estatute.

VII. And where, by the said former Statute, the third Part of the Forfeitures for not coming to Divine Service is limited to the Poor (2) Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer of England, Chancellor and Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the Time being, or two ofthem , to assign and dispose of the full third Part ofthe twentyPounds for every Month paid or to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, as is aforesaid, for the Relief and Maintenance as wellofthe Poor, and ofthe Housesof Correction, as ofimpotent and maimed Soldiers, as the same Lord Treasurer, Chancellor and Chief Baron,or any two of them, shall order or appoint ; anything in the said Estatute made in the said three and twentieth Yearof her Majesty's Reign mentioned to the contrarythereofin any wise notwithstanding

VIII. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend or be construed to make void or impeach any Grant or Lease heretofore made bona fide , without Fraud or Covin, whereupon any yearly Rent or Payment is reserved or payable ; (2) or any Grant or Lease hereafter to be madebona fide, without Fraud or Covin, whereupon the accustomed yearly Rent or more shall bereserved ; (3) orany other Conveyance, Assurance or Assignment whatsoever heretofore made bona fide, upon good Consideration , and without Fraud or Covin, which not or shall not be revokable at the Pleasure of such Offender ; (4) otherwise than to give Benefit and Title to her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, to have, perceive and enjoy such Rents and Paymentsduringthe Continuance of such Lease and Grant, accordingtothetrueMeaningofthis Act.

IX . And provided also, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend or be construed to continue any Seizure of any Lands or Tenements of such Offender in her Majesty's Hands, or in the Hands of her Heirs or Successors, after the said Offender's Death, which Lands or Tenements he shall have or be seized of only for Term of his Life, or in the Right of his Wife ; any Thing in this Act to the contraryin any wise notwithstanding .

1The text below is as printed in Statutes at Large(1770) pp. 656-7 Cf. Introd p x, footnote 13 .

The erroneous reading" ... mentioning not the coming ... " occurs here in the 1770 edition of S. at L. (corrected in later editions)

INDEX

OF PERSONS AND PLACES

An asterisk* signifies more than one entry on a page. "n" indicates a note on the page The addition rec. stands for "recusant " Special sections are included under the titles Authorities and Exchequer .

Abbas Hall, Great Cornard, Suff., 160, 166

Abbot(e)sham, Devon, 21

Abergavenny ,Aburgavennye,Mon. , 95

Abindon ; see Abingdon

Abingdon , Abindon, Berks. , lxxi; 4*

Abingdon , Richard, esq , rec , 48 ; see Abington

Abington, Abyngton, Dorothy, spr , rec , 194 ; wife, rec , 195 ; Richard, rec., 44 , 48 ; Thomas, esq , rec., 194 , 195 ; see Abingdon

Abraham , als Bradman, Eleanor, spr. , rec , 42

Abram , Abraham, Lancs , 64, 65

Abrooke, Thomas , gent , rec., 180

Acklam, Aclam, N.R. Yorks , 215

Acton, Cheshire, 12 ; Suff , 28, 159* , 166, 168*

Acton, Jane, wife, rec., 149 ; Robert, yom., 149

Adam, John, 96 ; Maud, spr.wife, rec ., 96

Adamson, Robert, yom , rec , 57 , 60* , 80, 81

Adderley, Joan, wife rec , 154

Adderley, Richard, yom , 154

Addington , Northants , 116 , 118n

Adresham, Berks., lxxi, lxxvii; 4*

Advent , Adven, Cornwall, 16

Adyne, Robert, gent , rec , 180

Ain(e)tree, Ametrie, Lancs , 85

Alcherne [? or Altheine], Joan , wife , spr , rec ., 181 ; Thomas , 181

Alchurche, Worcs.; see Alvechurch

Alciston, Alceston, Sussex, 172, 173

Aldbourne, Alborne, Wilts, 185

Aldbrough , Audbrough, N.R.Yorks , 216

Aldersey, Ranulf, gent , rec , 12*

Aldersgate , London, Ward of, 93, 94

Aldworth, Alice, rec , 127

Alfriston , Sussex, 180*

Algate, Aldgate, London, Ward of, 93, 94n

Allen, "Avisa, " spr.wife, rec., 94*; William , 94

Allensmore , Herefs , 44

Allerton, Lancs , 84 ; Bywater , W.R. Yorks., 203

Allerton Graunge, W.R. Yorks , 220

Allington, Devon, 21*

Allott, Thomas , rec. , 88

All Saints parish, Hereford city,49*

Almington, Staffs , 131

Almond , Alice, wid., rec , 84

Almyngton farme, Almington, Staffs , 131

Alresford, Alefford, Hants , 35

Alsopp, Thomas, gent , commissioner , lxxxiin ; 17

Alston, James, rec , 72*

Alte, Francis, lab , rec , 155 ; Margaret, wife, rec., 155

Altherne ; see Alcherne

Alvechurch(e), 189* , 198 Alchurche, Worcs,

Ambrosden, Ambresden , Oxon, 127

Amerden , Taplow, Bucks ,6

Ametrie, Lancs .; see Ainetree

Amondernes [Amounderness , Hundred of], Lancs , 56, 76

Amyes, Joan , spr , rec , 154

Anabaptists , ix

Anderson, Sir Edmund, Knt , Justice of Assize , xxviin; Lord Chief Justice of CommonPleas,xlvii

Anderton , Lancs , 67*

Anderton , William, esq , rec , 67

Andrewe, William, tenant, 129 , 130

Andros, Dorothy, wid , rec , 195

Androwes , Edward, lessee , 158* , 167*

Anested, Alice, wife, spr, rec , 181 , 181n ; Daniel, 181 , 181n ; see Quested

Anglesey, Co. , cviiin

Angram Graunge [later IngramGrange, Welbury], N.R. Yorks , 207, 210

Anne, George, esq , rec , 204* , 217 ; Gervase, Jervase, gent , rec , 202, 217

Anson, Richard, rec., 114* , 115

Antwerp, Flanders , xliiin

Appleton , Appleton Wiske , N.R. Yorks , 207, 210* , 215

Aprice, Robert, esq , rec , xliii, lxxxiv ; 50

Aston, Oxon, 123

Archbishop (Canterbury), (York), xx

Archdeacons, xxxviii xxxin;

Arden, Joan, rec , 115 ; John, lessee , 2* , 5*

Arkeston(e), Kingstone, Herefs, 45*

Arlington, Sussex, 173*

Arnold, Margery, wife, rec. , 155 ; Thomas, yom , 155

Ar(r)undell , Elizabeth, wid , rec , xcv* , 16* , 17 ; John, esq., xcvn ; John, esq., rec., xliii, lxxxiv ; 16 ;

Thomas , als Courtney, gent., rec ., 15, 17 , 20, 22 ; William, esq , lessee , 23*

Arthingworth, Artyngworthe, Northants ., 113 , 114

Arthure, David, 16

Ascoughe, Roger, esq , 91, 92n

Asfordby, Assordley, Leics , 87*

Ashbrittle, Asshebrittle, Somerset , 139* , 140

Ashburnham , Assheborneham , Sussex , 173 * , 176*

Ashby(e), William, esq., "servant to the Queen," lxxxvi* , lxxxviin, cxiin

Ash(e)by [? in Bottesford], Lincs , 89*

Ash(e)ton, Ralph, esq., sheriff of Co. Pal , Lancaster , 80, 86n ; Richard, esq., sheriff of Co. Pal , Lancaster , 69* , 86n

Ash(e)water, Devon , 20

Ashgrove Farm, Donhead St. Mary, Wilts , xciin

Ashill, Aishill, Somerset , 141

Ashington , Aysshington, Sussex , 171

Aslaby, Francis, gent , rec , 216

Aspinall, Richard, husb., rec , 62

As(s)heborneham, John, esq , rec , 173 , 174 ; Thomas , rec , 176* , 178* William, esq., rec , 172 ; William, gent., rec , 176* , 178*

As(s)heton, Ashton, Winwick , Lancs , 65, 67* , 81 ; [? Eshton: W.R.] Yorks , 209

Assheton, John, junior, rec , 65 ; Richard, gent , rec , 65

Asshwell, Beachamwell , Norf , 99

Assizes , xvii, xxiii, xxv* , xxvi* , xxviin , xxviii-ix, xln* , xli, lx* , lxviii,xcviii,ciin* ; (Hereford) xcvi; (Lancaster) xviii ; (Ludlow) lxxxixn; (Norwich) viiin

Assordley, see Asfordby, Leics

Ast(e)ley, Astlee, Worcs. , 193 * , 194

Astell, Ambrose, gent , lessee , 218 , 222n ; Roger, yom., rec , lxxxiiin, 5*

Aston, Robert, esq , commissioner , lxxxiin , 17* ; William, gent., rec.,65

Aston Rowaunt , Oxon, 126

Atkynson, Eleanor, wid. , rec. , 219 ; Thomas , tailor, rec , 219

Attercliff(e), W.R. Yorks., 202, 217*

Attkyns, Richard , yom , rec , 111

Attleborough(e), Norf , 104

Attorneys, xviiin, lxvn , cv

Attorney General , xv, xvi, xviii, xxvi, xlvii* , xlviii, lii, lxxiii, cv

Atwood, Margaret, rec. , 182

Auditors (palatine), cvii, cviii; (Wales)

cix; see Exchequer (officials)

Aughton, Lancs, 82

Austen, Thomas , tenant, 175 , 176

Authorities cited in Introduction and notes : (MSS .)

Agenda Books , Q.R., M.R., xvii, xix, xli*

AncientIndictments , xxix

Black Book of the Exchequer , liii

CecilMSS. (Hatfield House), lviii

Chancellor's series of CounterRecusant Rolls, 1 , li* , lxv

Commissions (for leasing), lxxiv* , lxxv

Commissions (for property-seizure), Ixii, lxiii*, lxxiii* , lxxiv, lxxxi-iii, ci* , cvi ; and passim in Text

Controlment Rolls (King's Bench), xxix

Cotton MS , Titus 2 (B.M.), ix

Estreats of convictions (original), xxiii* , lviii-lxiii, lxxxv, xcvi, xcvii , xcviii*, cii

Estreat Rolls, lix

Exannual Roll of Recusants, liv, lxxxiv*

Foreign Accounts , Sheriffs' , 47-8, 50n, 117 , 118n

Great Roll, see Pipe Rolls

Great Roll of Recusants, lxviii ; see RecusantRolls

Hutton MSS (Northallerton), lxv

Indictment for recusancy, form of, XXXV-vi

Informations (Exchequer ), form of, xvii

Instructions (to Commissioners of Inquiry), lxxiii

Inventories ofgoods, lxxxi, lxxxii

Letters Patent, xliv, lxiii; 87

L.T.R. Estreat Roll of Recusants, lxii

Memoranda Rolls : Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (L.T.R.), xxv, xlviii, lii, lvi, lvii* , lxii, lxiii* , lxvi-viii, lxxii-iv, lxxxi-iii, lxxxvi* ,

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lxxxvii , lxxxix* , xcii-xcv, ci, civ* , cv* , cvii* , cx ; and passim in Text

Memoranda Rolls : Queen's Remembrancer (Q.R.), xvi*, xx, xxii, lii, lvi, lvii* , lxvii, lxx, lxxxvi* , lxxxix, cvii ; 1 , 63, 213

Orders or Decrees (L.T.R. ), Books of, civ ; 87

Patent Rolls, Calendar , liv, cii

Pipe (Great) Rolls, xiv, xv, xix, xxiv,xxx, xxxiii, xxxvi* , xxxvii, 1* , liii-lvii, lx-lxii, lxiv, lxviii-lxxi, lxxiv, lxxv, lxxviii*,lxxxiv* ,lxxxvii , lxxxviiin, xc, xciv ; andpassim in Text

Pipe Office series of Great and Recusant Rolls, li* , 1

Proclamation of Recusancy, form of, xl

Receipt, Abbreviates of li ; Books (Pells'), xx, li, lxv, lxix, lxxv , lxxvi, civ* ; Pells of, li ; Rolls, li

Recusant Rolls, l-li, liv-vii, lxii-viii; andpassim

Repertories : L.T.R., M.R., civ

Roll of the Enrolment of Leases , lxxviii* , 5, 19, 21, 39, 40, 78, 79 , 80, 91, 108, 125, 130, 164* , 177 , 192, 210, 211 , 225

Schedules ofthePipe, liv, lx, lxi-lxiii

Sharp MSS . (Durham), lxxiii

State Papers, Domestic , viii, xvii, xxi, li, lviii, lxix, lxxvi* ,cvii

Summonses of the Green Wax , xlix, lviii,lix*

Summonses of the Pipe, xlix, liii, liv, lx, lxiv , lxv , lxvi* , lxvii, lxxxvii, xc, xcix* , Recusant , lxv* , cviii

Tellers' Bills, li, lxvi* , civ

Tellers' Views of Payments and Issues , xxvii, li, liv, lviii, lix, Ixi, lxii, lxv

(Printed Works)

Acts of the Privy Council, xxin

Anstruther, Godfrey : Vaux of Harrowden , xliv

Archives , articles, vii, x

Bacon, Sir Nicholas : The Officeof Alienations , liii

Barraclough , G. The Earldom and County Palatine of Chester, cvi

Bartholomew , J.: Survey Gazetteer , cxiii

Biographical Studies , lxxiii, lxxxii, xciii, cxi ; see Recusant History

Birt, H. Norbert : The Elizabethan Settlement, viii, xii

Authorities

Bond, M. F.: Acts ofParliament , x

Bowler, H. Some Notes on the Recusant Rolls of the Exchequer, vii

Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, li, lxii

Calendar , S. P. Domestic , lxxiii, lxxvi

Calthrop, M. M. C. Catholic RecordSociety , vol.xviii,Introduction, vii

Campbell , Mildred: The English Yeoman under Elizabeth and early Stuarts, xlv

Caraman , Philip : John Gerard , xxi, xliii

CatholicRecord Society ,vol 2 :xxi; vol 6: xxx ; vol 18 : passim ; vol 22 xv ; vol 34 : xxix* , XXXV , Xxxvi , xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix , xl, xcvi ; vol 53 : xxiiin, lviii* , lix, lx, lxxvi, lxxxvn

Cheney, C. R.: Handbook of Dates for Students ofEnglishHistory, lvi

Coke (Sir Edward), Law Reports, xxii ; Ford and Sheldon's case , lxxxiii ; Foster's case, xv, xviii, xxv, xxxiv, xl, xli,xlvi

Davies, M. G.: The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship 15631642 , xvi, xvii

D'Ewes, Sir Simonds : A Compleat Journalof the House ofLords and the House of Commons ... temp. Eliz., xxii*

Dictionary of National Biography , viii, xxi,xxxvi*

Dietz, F. C. Receipts and Issues of the Exchequer, temp James 1 and Charles I, cxi ; TheExchequer in Elizabeth's reign, xix, xx, xxvii, xliii,cxi*

Downside Review , xxiv

Encycl Britannica , article "Exchequer , " xlix

English Place-name Society, vols of, cxiii

Fanshawe, Thomas: The Practice of the Exchequer Court, lxvi

Finch , M. É Five Northamptonshire Families , xxxii

Foley, H.: Records, S.J., xliii, lxxxiii

Ford and Sheldon's case ; see Coke, Reports

Foster's case; see Coke, Reports

Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey: A Treatise on the Court of Exchequer, xxxiiin , xlix* , liii, lviii* , lix, lx, lxv, lxvi, lxvii, lxxxix,xc , xcix

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Guiseppi, M. S. : Guide to the Public Records (1923), xlix, liii, lviii,lxvii

Godber , Joyce : The Publicationof Latin Records , vii

Grimstone v. Molineux ; see Hobart, Reports

Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office ("Guide 1963"), xlix, 1 , lii, liii, liv, lviii, lix, lxvi, lxxxiv , civ* , cvii

Hall, Hubert : Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer, liii*

Havran , M. J.: The Catholics in Caroline England , xvin

Hawkins, W.: Pleas of the Crown (ed 1724), xxvi, xxviii, xxxiv* , xxxix*,xlii,xlvi,xcix

Hobart (Sir Henry) : Reports, Grimstone v. Molyneux, xvii; Pie v Lovell, xxxix ; Tredwaye's case , xxv

Housebooks of the mayoral court of York, 1576-1601, xii

Hughes, Philip : The Reformation in England, viii,x* ,xii*

Jacob: Law Dictionary,xxvii,xxxiv, xxxviii* , lxiii, lxxxn, lxxxi ; 112n

Jessopp, Augustus: One Generation of a Norfolk House , xxvii

Lapsley, G. T.: The County Palatine of Durham, cvi, cvii

Lilly, W. S., and Wallis, J.P.: A Manual of the Law specially affectingCatholics, xin Lists and Indexes, No. IX (P.R.O.), lv , cix

Manuscripts of the House of Lords (New Series), viii

Middlesex County Records (ed J. Cordy Jeaffieson), xxix

Middlesex Sessions Records (ed W. Le Hardy and G. L. Reckitt), xxix

Mills, M. H.: Adventus Vicecomitum (EnglishHistorical Review), xlix ; The Medieval Shire House, lxv

Morgan, E.V.; The study ofprices and the value ofmoney,xliv

Morris , John : Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers (series III), xii, xix, xxxix , lxxxiii

Morris , W. A.: The Medieval English Sheriffto 1300 , xlix, xciv

Neale, J. E.: Elizabeth I and her

Parliaments (2 vols ), ix, xii, xxii, xlvi, xlvii

Parliament, Acts of (4 Henry VII, c . 20), xvi ; (27 Henry VIII, c. 26),

Authorities

cix ; (27 Henry VIII, c. 24), cvi ; (34 and 35 Henry VIII, c 26), cix; (3 Edw VI, c.1), x ; (5 and 6 Edw VI, c.1), x ; (7 Edw VI, c 4), viii ; (1 Eliz , c 2), viii, xi, xii, x* , xxxviii ; (5 Eliz , c 23), xi, cvi ; (18 Eliz , c.3), xxvi; (18 Eliz., c 5), xvii; ("Statuteof 1581" 23 Eliz , c.1), ix, xii-xxi and passim ; (27 Eliz , c 2), xxxvii ; ("Statute of 1586-7" : 28-29 Eliz , c. 6), xii,xxii-xliii; and passim See Appendix ; (29 Eliz c.5), xviii; (35Eliz, c. 1), xxxvii* , xlvi-viii; (1 James I, c 4), ix, xxvi, xli, xlii, xciii ; (3 James I, c 4), xii, xxiii, xxxiii, xxxvii, xxxviii,xli, xlviii, lxi ; (3 James I, c 5), xi ; (21 James I, c 4), xvii; (2Williamand Mary, sess 1 ,c 5), xi ; (4 Geo II, c 26), xXXV ; (23 Geo III, c 82), lii ; (33 Geo III, c 13), xxiv ; (3 and 4

WilliamIV), liii

Parmiter, G. de C. Saint Thomas More and the Oath, xxiv

Pie v Lovell ; see Hobart, Reports

Poole, R. L.: The Exchequer in The Twelfth Century, xlviii, liii

Powicke , F. J. : Henry Barrow , Separatist, xxxvi

Powicke, F. M.: Handbook of British Chronology , lvii

Pugh, R. B.: Abstracts of Feet of Fines relating to Wiltshire .. ., vii

Recusant History (continuing Biographical Studies), vii, xiv, xxvi , xxxiv, xxxvii, xlii, lii, lxiii, lxxi, lxxxi, xcii, xcviii, cii

Rowse, A. L.: Tudor Cornwall, xliv

Ryan, G. H., and Redstone , L. J.: Timperley of Hintlesham , vii, xxxviii, xln

Somerville , R.: The Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, cvi

Statutes at Large, x* ,xxii* , xlvi, cix

Statutes of the Realm,x

Stow, John : The Survey ofLondon, liii

Strype, John : Annals of the Reformation , viii

The Lord Coke his Speech and Charge, viii

The Office of the Clerk of Assize : together with the Office of the Clerk ofthe Peace, xl

Tredwaye's case , see Hobart, Reports Victoria County History, lxxvii, cxiii

Authorities

INDEX

Visitations of Berkshire (Harleian Soc ), lxxvii

Wharton, Law Lexicon, xi, xii, xxiii, cv ; 181n , 188n

Williams, J. A.: Bath and Rome , Xxxvii

Williams, N. J. Tradesmen in early Stuart Wiltshire, xvi, xvii, xviii,xix

Wilson, Thomas , The State of England, 1600 (CamdenMiscell , xvi), xliv-v

Aveling, Hugh, O.S.B., lxvn

Averell, Edward, lab , rec , 198 ; Mary, wife, rec , 198; als Tailor,

William, baker, rec., 198

Avery, Richard, blacksmith, rec , 198

Awderson, Christopher, yom., rec , 216

Axford, Axor, Hants, 34

Aylmer, John, bishopof London , xv

Ayre, John, yom., rec , 180

Ayshford, East, Devon, 19

Bableigh , Bableygh , Parkham, Devon , 21

Babington , Gervase, viii

Bache, George, husb , rec , 196*

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, Knt , "farmer , " 105, 113n

Bacons, manor house, Essex , 25

Badger, William, lab , rec , 127

Bagges, LinsteadParva, Suff , 160 , 163

Bagott, Richard, esq., commissioner , 146 , 147* , 156n*

Bailiffs (Sheriff's), lxv , lxxxiii

Bake , William, lessee , 38*

Baker , Elizabeth, spr , rec., 111 ; Richard, smith, rec., 49 ; Thomas, tenant, 175, 176

Bales, Joan, wife, rec., 168 ; Thomas, gent, 168

Ball, Robert, husb , rec , 61, 81

Ballam , Goosnargh, Lancs , 73, 76, 81 ; Westby, Lancs , 54 , 59

Ballingdon , Ballenden , Essex, 28

Balthroppe , Robert, chief surgeon to the Queen, lessee , 6*

Bamber, George, rec. , 77*

Bamford, John, gent , commissioner , lxxxiin ; 17

Bampton , Oxon, 127

Bancke, Elizabeth , wid . , rec , 76*

Bancroftes , Staffs, 145

Banham, Norf., 103, 111 ; Haugh,Norf. , 105

Banninge, Paul, sheriff of London/ Middx. , 92

W

Ban(n)ester, Ban(n)ister, Ban(n)yster, Bannystar , Edward, esq., rec., 35 ; Edward, gent , rec., 170 ; Nicholas, esq , commissioner , 70, 79; Richard , esq ., 137 ; Richard, rec. , cixn ; Richard, esq , rec , 133 , 135, 136* ; Winefrid, spr , wife, rec , 137

Bapchild, Kent, 51

Barbor, Ann, wife, rec , 127 ; John, 127

BarfordSt. Martin , Wilts , 186

Barforth, N.R.Yorks , 201 , 213

Barker, Margaret, spr -wife, rec. , 85; Margaret, wid , rec , 82 ; Richard, yom. , 85 ; Rowland, esq , commissioner, 133 , 135, 136; als of Chapman , Edward

Barking(e), Essex , 26

Barling(e), Essex, 28

Barmbye, Beatrice, wife, rec , 217; see Barnabye , Barnebye

Barnaby , N.R. Yorks , 216

Barnabye, Thomas , esq , rec , 217 ; see Barmbye , Barnebye

Barnacre, Barnaker , Lancs , 60, 74* , 75

Barnard , Christopher, deputy to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer , XXXN

Barnbrough , Baronburgh ,W.R. Yorks , xliin ; 208*

Barnby, Barnebye, W.R. Yorks , 204 , 209, 213 ; Suffolk, 25

Barnby, West, Westbarneby , N.R. Yorks , 205, 207

Barneby Hall, W.R. Yorks , 213 , 222n

Barneby(e), Thomas , lxxivn ; Thomas , esq , rec. , 204* 209 , 213* , 222n*; Thomas , gent 213, 222n ; see Barmbye, Barnabye

Barnes, Robert, yom. , rec , 187

Barnesley, William, lab., rec , 152

Barney , Alice, wid , rec , 106 ; Ralph, gent., rec., 101 , 109* , 111

Barres, Holmedale, Norf., 101

Barrett, Robert, gent , commissioner , 224

Barrobie[? Barrowby]grange, [?W.R.] Yorks. 209

Barrowby,W.R., Yorks.; see Barrobie

Barrow(e), Henry, gent , dissenter, viiin*, xxxvi*

Barrowists , viii

Barsey Hey, Garston, Lancs , 79

Barton, Lancs , 54

Barton, Ann, rec., 54 ; Ann, wife, rec ., 93 ; John, gent , rec., 93* ; "Lion" [? Lionel], gent , rec. , 194

Basildon, Basseldon, Berks , lxxxiiin; 5*

Baskervile , Jane, wid. , rec. , 46*

Basseldon, see Basildon

INDEX

Bassett , Thomas , yom., rec , 180

Bathampton , Wilts , lxxxiv ; 3

Baventtes, Bavens, manor, Suff., 163 , 164 165*

Baxter [ ], wife, rec., 218, 222n ; Alice, wid., rec , 83 ; Francis, gent., rec , 111 , 217 , 222n

Bayley, Thomas, gent , lessee , 204* , 221n

Baylie, George,husb, rec , 141

Bayne landes [? Eshton: W.R.], Yorks , 209

Baynton, Henry, esq , sheriff ofWilts, xciii

Beachamwell, Birchehamwell , Bitchamwell, Norf , xxxii; 99* , 100* , 112 ; see Bicham

Beamondes, Farlington, Hants , 174

Beane, Robert, clothier, rec , 219

Beansheaves , Bensheves, Tilehurst, Berks , 2

Beare, Christiana, wid ,rec , 41

Beaseley, Bridget, wife, rec , 215 ; Edward, gent , 215

Beccles, Becclis, Suff . , 162

Beckett, Robert, esq , rec., 14 , 15

Beckland , Becklondes , Devon, 20

Beckley, William , husb., rec , 126

Beckwythe , Jane , spr , rec , 219

Beddingham, Bedingham , Sussex, 173

Bedfordshire , xxiin, xxxi* , xlixn, lvn, lxviii, lxix, lxx* , lxxix* , lxxxviin, lxxxviiin ; 1* ,3

Bedhampton, Hants , 41

Bedingfeild , Elizabeth, wid , rec., 101 ; Henry, gent , rec , 112 ; Humphrey, rec., 103 ; Humphrey, esq , rec., 105 ; Jane, wife, rec., 111 ; John, 157* ; John, esq , rec , 157* ;

Lawrence , esq., rec , 110, 111 ; Thomas , esq , 157*

Bedingfield [ ], viiin

Bee, Robert, carpenter , rec., 75* , 81

Beeding, Upper , Sussex, 170

Beelsby, Beilsbye, Lincs , 88 , 89

Belchford [? or Bottesford], Lincs. ; see Boltesford

Belhouse, Janet, wife, rec , 220 ; John, rec., 220 ; John, yom., rec , 220 ; William,yom.,rec , 220

Bellamy(e), James, Queen's servant , lessee, 202* , 205, 212* , 214

Bellingham , Richard, gent , lessee , 170*

Bellowes, Janet, spr , rec , 203 , 212

Bellows, High Easter, Essex, 27

Belson, Ann, wid., rec. , 126

Belvens[? Eshton: W.R.], Yorks , 209

Bendbowe, John, lessee, 88* , 91* , 92

Benfleet, North, Northbemflete , Essex , 25

Benndes, GreatWelnetham,Suff, 164*

Bennetland, Eastrington, W.R. Yorks.; see Burland

Bennett, Leonard, weaver, rec., 140

Bentham , W.R. Yorks , 200* , 219

Berkeswiche [? BerkhamSytch], Staffs , 152

Berkshire , xxvn, lvn, lxviin, lxxi* , lxxiin, lxxivn, lxxv-viii, lxxxiii* , lxxxviiin, cn, ciii* , civn* , cxiii ; 1-6, 124

Berkswell , Barkeswell , Warwicks, 182*

Berrington, Francis, junior, gent, rec., 49

Berrow, Borrowe, Worcs, 191

Berry Court Farm, Burry Courte, DonheadSt. Andrew , Wilts, 185

Berrye, Cecily, spr. , rec , 81

Berryhill, Hanley, Staffs , 146

Berwick St. John, Barwick St. John, Wilts., 186

Beseley, Richard, husb , rec , 74*

Betton under Lune [Lyme], Lyne [Bettonin Hales], Salop, 131 , 134

Betterton , Elizabeth, wife, rec , 127 ; John, lab , 127

Bettes, John, gent , rec., 110

Bicham [? Beachamwell ] St. Mary, Norf. , 110

Bickerdike, Bickerdick, Edward, gent , 219 ; Jane, wife, rec , 219 ; Mary, spr. , rec., 219

Bickerstaff, Lancs , 62*

Bigby(e), Lincs , 91

Bigge, Cecily, wife, rec., 126 ; Walter, yom. , 126

Bigg(e)s , Thomas , esq , sheriff of Worcs, 189 , 193

Big(g)ottes, WestTofts,Norf , 102 , 105

Billesby , Edward, esq , lessee, 88, 89*

Billing, Great, Billinge Magna, Northants, 114 , 115

Billingsgate , London , Ward of, 94

Billington, Billyngton, Lancs , 70* , 71

Bilney , Norfolk, xxviin

Bilston , Bilson , Staffs., 152 Wolverhampton,

Bingham, Laurence , gent , commissioner, 26, 28

Bintree , Byntree,Norf , 111

Birche, Byrche , Edward, rec, 146 ; Edward, husb , rec , 145 ; Edward, yom , rec., 151*; Rose, wife, rec , 151

Birtsmorton , Brutes Morton, als Birchemoreton, Worcs, 191

Bisbrooke , Bysbrooke , Rutland, 128,130

Bishopp, Joan, serv't, rec , 140 ; Margaret, wid , rec , 140*; see Bisshoppe

Bishops (Anglican), xl * , xii, xiii*, Borrowby, Borowby, N.R. Yorks , 216 xv* ,xxxviii, xciii*, cvi

Bishop's Castle, Salop., 135*

Bissell ; see Byssell

Bysshopscastell,

Bisshoppe, Thomas , esq , commissioner, 175 ; see Bishopp

Blackburn, Blakeborne, Lancs , xviii*; 54, 57, 69, 70, 82

Blackburne , John, yom., rec , 60* , 80

Blackeston , Blakeston , Co. Durham , 211*

Blackiston, William, esq., rec , 211

Blackeway , Salop , 132

Blackwayfarme, Harley, Salop, 132

Bledlow(e), Bucks , 6, 122

Blegberry, Bleckburye, Devon, 20

Blenches, manor, Suff . , 163. , 164

Blenerhasset, William, esq , commissioner, 106

Blenkynsoppe, Blinkinsopp, esq ., rec ., 183* Henry,

Bletchington , Blechington, Oxon , 127

Blewbell, Le, Bread Street, London,92

Blinkinsopp, Henry ; see Blenkynsoppe

Blott, Phillipa, spr , rec. , 126

Blount, Edward, tenant, 19*

Bloxwich, Bloxwyche , Staffs., 147*

Bloys, manor, Essex, 24

Blundell, Margaret, wid , rec , 83 ; Margery, wid , rec , 65 ; Richard, 78* ; Richard, rec , 54* ; Richard, gent , rec , 59* ; William, gent., rec ., 78*

Blunsdon, Broad, Wilts , 186

Blunt(t), Bridget, wife, rec , 193*; Thomas , gent , rec , 191 , 193* , 194 ; Walter, rec., 144

Blythe, Alice, spr., rec , 152 ; Francis, esq., commissioner , 26

Bod(d)enham, Roger, esq , sheriff of Herefords, lxxxixn ; 43, 48* , 50n

Bodie, Edward, clothworker, informer, xlin

Bodmin , Bodmyn, Cornwall , 21

Bold, Boulde , Lancs , 59, 83

Bolt(e), Frances, wife, rec , 153 ; Hugh, 153 ; als Stone, Joan , spr, rec., 149

Boltesford ,? Belchford [? Bottesford], Lincs, 90

Bolton, Adam, yom , rec , 70 , 71*; Nicholas, gent , rec , 54; Richard, rec , 65 ; Richard, gent. , lessee , 54* ,55

Boothe, Margery, wid , rec , 12

Border (England-Scotland), lxixn

Borne, Lancs. , 53 Boroughbridge , Burrowbrigges , W.R.

Yorks, 219

Bossington, Bossingdon , Hants, 38*

Bothome Hey, Garston , Lancs , 79

Bottesford , Lincs ; see Boltesford, ? Belchford

Boulde, Lancs ; see Bold

Boulde, Joan, wid , rec , 149

Bourne, John, gent , rec., 126; William, rec., 122, 125* ; William, gent , rec , 126*

Bowerchalk , Burchalke, Wilts., 186

Bowes, Christopher, foreman-juror, 206 ; John, gent., rec , 216 ; Ralph, esq , commissioner , 211 ; Robert, rec , 207, 212 ; Robert, yom , rec , 215 ; Robert, gent, rec., 210* ; Talbott, esq , commissioner , 206 ; Talbott , gent., commissioner , 210

Bowmer, Katherine, rec. , 201

Bowyer , Thomas, esq., commissioner , 177* , 178*

Braban, Thomas , lessee , 43* , 47* , 48, 49n

Brabrooke ; see Braybrook

Bracye, Thomas, tenant, 192

Bradford, Thomas , yom , rec , 32*

Bradley, Staffs ., 144 , 154

Bradley , Alexander , yom., rec , 16* , 17 ; John, rec , 72*

Bradman , als. ofAbraham, Eleanor

Bradshawe, Edward, gent , lessee , 52* , 53 ; Christopher, yom. , 83 ; Elizabeth, spr. , rec., 194 ; George, yom., rec., 83 ; John, esq., commissioner , 60, 79, 80 ; Margaret, spr.wife, rec., 83 ; Margaret, wid , rec , 85 ; Richard, gent , lessee , 79* 3 Thomas, lessee , 56* ; Thomas , esq ., sergeant-at-arms, lessee , 57*

Bradstock , John, rec , 190 ; William, rec , 191 ; William, gent , rec , 31 , 33 ; see Brodstock

Bradworthy, Bradworthie, Devon, 20

Bragge, William, tenant, 28%; als

Tynkes, Thomas , yom., rec , 168

Brakefeld , Garston, Lancs , 79

Bramber, James, husb., rec , 77*

Brambridge , Brembridge , Twyford, Hants , lxxxiv ; 35

Bramley, Bramlye, Hants ,42

Brampton , Branton, Norf, 110 ; N.R. Yorks , 216

Bramshott , Hants, 41

Brand, Norton in Hales, Salop.; see Erand

Brandearths , Two, Garston , Lancs , 79

Brand(e)sby, N.R. Yorks , 214

Brandon, Parva, Norf , 108* , 111

Bransford , Worcs, 194

Brant Broughton , Lincs ., 88

INDEX

Brentbroughton,

Branton grange, [? W.R.] Yorks , 209

Brawyn , Francis, gent , tenant , 8

Braybrook, Braybroke, Brabrooke, Martha, wid., rec , lxxi* , lxxii, lxxvii*; 4* , 5*; Family, Ixxviin

Bread Street, Breadstreate, city of London, 92

Breches, Stanlake, Oxon, 122

Brecon, Co., cviiin , cixn

Bredon, Breedon, Worcs. , 196

Breers, Frances, wife, rec. , 220; Oliver, gent , 220

Bregge, Edward, weaver, rec , 152

Breinton, John, esq., commissioner , 46

Brembridge , Hants.; see Brambridge

Brenchley, Kent, 51

Bretforten, Bradforton, Worcs, 196

Bretton, Bretton West, W.R. Yorks. , 200, 208

Bretton, Frances, wife, rec , 218 ; John, rec [martyr], cxin ; John , gent., rec., 218 ; John, yom , rec., 208

Brewers Brooke, Peasmarsh, Sussex, 177

Brewham, Breuham , Somerset, 140

Brewninge, Richard, rec, 38*

Brewood, see Dreewood , Staffs

Brewster , Richard, lessee , 6* , 7, 160* , 161 *

Brickleton, Berks.; see Bright Walton

Bridewells, xxvin

Bridg(e)water, Somerset , 141

Bridzor, Burzer, Tisbury, Wilts, 188

Brigges, John, yom., rec. , 180 ; Robert, yom. , rec., 198

Bright, John, tenant, 22

Brightling(e), Sussex, 172

Brightmore , Henry, tenant, 129, 130

Bright Walton, Brickleton, Berks , lxxvii; 4

Brigstock , Brigestocke , Northants , 115

Brimpton, Somerset, 143 ; see Bympton

Brindle, Brindhill , Lancs , 73

Brissingcote, Derbys.; see Brizlincote

Bristol, Somerset, lvin

British Museum, viiin, ixn, xxixn

Brizlincote, Brissingcote , Derbys, 19

Broadchalk, Brodchalke , Wilts., 186

Broadway, Brodwey , Dorset, 23

Brockholls(? Brockholds), Radwinter, Essex , 28

Bro(c)kin, Brokin, Chastleton , Oxon , 122 , 123 , 125

Brocksted Essex , 26 [Broxsted ], Brocksteed ,

Brodockes, Wimbish, Essex, 28

Brodstock, John, rec , 192, 193 ; see Bradstock

Bromefeild , Garston, Lancs , 79

Bromeley, Sir Henry, Knt , commissioner, 191, 192

Bromewell , Thomas , yom , rec , 111

Bromhall, Cheshire ; see Broomhall

Bromyard, Bromeyard, Herefs , 44, 48

Broncker, Sir William, Knt , lessee, lxxii, lxxvii, lxxviii*; 4* , 5* ; Family, Ixxviin ; see Bruncker

Brooke, David, yom., rec , 188* ; Elizabeth, spr , rec , 188 ; Mary, spr. , rec , 188 ; Phillida, wife, spr., rec., 188 ; Thomas, yom. , rec ., 110 , 180

Brookes, "Geneta, " wid , rec., 84

Broomhall, Bromhall, Stockport, Cheshire, 11

Brough-under-Stainmore , 183* Westmld ,

Broughe, Catterick par , N.R. Yorks , 214

Broughton, Hants, 38 ; Lancs , 57 , 60 ; Notts , 119 ; W.R. Yorks , 220 ; Sulney, Solney, Notts , 119 ; West, West Broughton, Derbys., 19

Broundesden, Bromesden , Oxon. , 122

Browne , Anthony, xliiin ; Bridget, spr., rec., 168 , 169 ; Humphrey, lab , rec , 156 ; Joan, daughter, spr., rec., 141 ; Joan, wife, spr , rec., 141 ; John, esq , commissioner , 165 ; John, yom , rec , 115 ; Robert, dissenter, viiin* , xxxvin ; Timothy, rec , 146 ; Valentine, esq., sheriff of Lincs , 88, 91, 92n ; William , 141 ; als of Calvert, Elizabeth

Brownists , viii, xxxvin ; (Recusant), ix

Broxsted , Brocksteed , Essex ; see Brocksted

Broxton, Michael, lab , rec., 154 ; Simon, 42n

Brudges, Charles, esq , sheriff of Herefs , 47

Bruisyard, Brusyard, Suffolk, xxviin, XXX

Bruncker , Sir William, Knt , commissioner, 187 ; see Broncker

Brutes Morton , als. Birchemoreton , Worcs see Birtsmorton

Bruton, Brewton, Somerset , 140

Bryant, J. , liiin

Bryngwyn , Bringwyn, Mon., 98

Bucke, Elizabeth, wid , rec , 76*

Buckenham, Old, Norf , 110

Buckenham, St. Martin [New Buckenham], Norf, 112

INDEX

Buckinghamshire , xxvii, xliii, lvn, lxxvi, lxxxiv, lxxxv, lxxxvii, lxxxviiin , ciii* ; 6-7, 48, 122

Buckish , Buckysshe,Devon,20

Buckland Brewer , Bruer, Devon, 21*

Bucklebury , Berks , 4

Budgell, John, lessee , 183*

Bulby, Lincs , 89

Bulkeley, Rowland, rec , 132

Bull, George, junior, husb , rec., 87* ; William, husb'n, rec , 141

Bulleyn(e), John rec , 123 ; Joyce, wid , rec ., 127

Bullock, John, esq., commissioner , 18* , 19n

Bulmer, Essex, lxxxiv; 25,* 28*

Bulstrode , Edward, commissioner , 48

Bunbury, Cheshire, 12*

Bunny, Bonney, Notts , 119

Buntingesdale, Salop, 132

Burgate, Burgatt, Suff., 163

Burgen, als Burgan, als Burgoyn , gent., rec , 22

Burges, Eleanor, spr , rec , 155 ; Isaac, gentleman ofthechapel royal, lessee, 132* , 136

Burghfield , Berks , 2, 3*

Burghley, Lord Treasurer (Sir William Cecil), xx, xxxvin, xlviii, lviiin, lix, cvii

Burgoyn ; als ofBurgen, William

Buriton, Borryton, Hants , 39, 40

Burlace , Nicholas, gent , rec , 16* , 17

Burland [? Bennetland , inEastrington], W.R. Yorks., 203

Burley, Burghley , W.R. Yorks , 202

Burley, George , gent., lessee , 36* , 41 ; William, gent , rec , 36

Burne, Lancs., 53

Burne, Thomas , yom., rec , 153

Burn(e)ley, Lancs , 72

Burn(e)sall, W.R. Yorks. , 220

Burrell, John, rec. , 90

Burrowes, Edith, wid. ,rec., 94

Burryes , CastonHall, Norf., 106

Burton (in Warcop), Westmorland , 183* , 184

Burton, Ann, wife, rec , 219 ; Cuthbert,yom , 219

Burwash, Burwasshe, Sussex, 172

Buryeblunsdon , als Burytowne [in BroadBlunsdon , Highworth],Wilts 186

Bury St. Edmunds , Suff. , 169

Burytowne , als. of Buryeblunsdon , Wilts

Buscott , Burscott, Berks.,2

Bushbury, Bysshebury, Staffs , 151

Butler, LadyAnn, wife, rec. , 149, 150 ; Jane, rec , 58 , 59 ; John, esq , 57 , 58

Butterbimes , Devon, 20

Butterleigh, Butterley, Devon, 19

Byddulphe, Ann, wife, rec , 153 ; Ralph, gent., rec , 153

Byford, Bifford, Herefs , 43 , 47

Bympton,? Brimpton, Somerset, 143

Byrche ; see Birche

Byrde, Ann, spr , rec , 180 ; Edward, 212*

Byreworth, Byworth, Lancs , 75

Byssell, Bissell, Ann, wife, rec., 197 ; Ann, spr , wife, rec , 198 ; John, 197 , 198

Caerleon, Carlyon, Mon.,98

Calverley, W.R. Yorks , 202, 218, 221

Calverley , Katherine, wife, rec , 218, 221 ; William, gent , rec , 202 , 218, 221 , 222n

Calvert, William, carpenter , rec , 76*; als. Browne, Elizabeth, spr , rec., 82

Cam , Thomas , tenant, 130*

Cambridgeshire , xxxi* , lv , lxivn , lxxn , lxxiii, lxxx, lxxxin, lxxxviiin ; 7-9

Canfield , Essex, 24 ; Little, Essex , 30

Canterbury , Kent, ixn; Archbishopof, xxxin ; eccles . Provinceof, xv

Carbonells, Wix, Essex ,27

Carbrook(e), Norf. , 111

Carde, Denyse, spr, rec , 188

Cardigan, Co., cviiin

Careles, John, yom ,rec , 138

Carewe, Richard, esq., commissioner , 15

Cargoll, Caryole, Newlyn, Cornwall, 16

Carlegas, Cornwall ; see Carloggas

Carleton, William, gent , rec , 132

Carl(e)ton, W.R. Yorks , 217 ; [Stanwick St. John, N.R.], Yorks. , 201 , 213, 216 ; Colvil(1)e , Suff., 159

Carlisle, Karlion' , Cumberland , 183

Carloggas, Carlegas, Cornwall, 15

Carmarthen , Co., cviii, cixn ; 224*

Carnarvon , Co., cviii ; 224*

Carpenter, John, gent , lessee, 186*

Carre, Wilpshire, Lancs , 82

Carsington , Oxon.; see Garsington

Cartuther, Cortider, Cornwall, 14

Carvile, Henry, gent , rec , 102 ; see Kervile

Carwinnen , Cornwall ; see Carwyngan

Carwyngan (? Carwinnen), Cornwall, 15

Carye, Henry, esq., rec , 38 , 39 ,41*

Caryole, Newlyn, Cornwall ; Cargoll

Casse, John, draper,rec. , 219 see

INDEX

Castle Church , parish, Stafford, 153 , 157n

Castlemorton , Castle Morton, Worcs, 197

Caston, Norf , 106

Caston Hall, manor, Norf., 106*

Catatt, Mary, rec., 143

Catherall, Lancs .; see Catterall

Catherall, Robert, rec , 71 * , 73* , 79; see Catterall

Caton , Lancs., 80

Catterall, Catherall, Clatherall, Lancs. , 57, 60 ; Robert, yom., rec , 70* , 81 ; see Catherall

Catterick, N.R.Yorks , 214

Catterick, Cattrick, Margaret, wid. , rec , 216 ; George, 201 , 213 gent , rec .,

Cause, William, yom , rec , 136*

Caverswall , Staffs., 146

Cavil, Cavell, W.R. Yorks , 203

Cawood, Thomas , lessee, 119* , 120*

Cawstons, als Caxtons, manor , Little Cornard, Suff, 160

Cawthorne , Cauthorne , W.R. Yorks , 200, 217

Caxtons , als of Cawstons , Little Cornard, Suff.

Chad(d)erton, Henry, rec , 117* , 178 , 181n*; William, gent , 177* , 178* , 181n

Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs , 132 , 196

Chaddeston, Suff.; see Chediston

Chagford , Devon, 22

Chaigley, Cheigley, Lancs , 56

Chaiter, Thomas, esq , commissioner , 208

Challyner, Chalenor, Chalinor, Elizabeth, wid., rec , 83 ; als Chawnor, "Geneta," wid , rec , 83 ; Katherine , wife, rec., 84 ; Percival, carpenter , rec ., 84*

Chamberlain of Chester, cvi ; 13n

Chancellor of the DuchyofLancaster , cvi, cviii; 85n* , 86n*; chamber of, cviii

Chancellor , Lord, of the Realm, 1* , li*

Chancery, Court of, xin, xxviin, lixn, lxiiin

Chapman, John, gent , lessee , 53* ; als Barker, Edward, tenant, 165

Chapples Vise, Essex, 29

Chare, John, lessee , 190*

Charles I, King of England, xxxviin , Ixiin, lxxxivn, ciin ; 110, 137 , 155 , 196, 199n, 214, 221, 222n

Charles II, Kingof England, civn

Charnock , Robert, esq. , 64

Charnock Richard, Lancs ., 59 , 85

Charsfeild , Suff , 157; Close, Suff, 157

Chary, manor, Essex ; see Cherry

Chastleton , Castleton, Oxon , 122, 123 , 125, 126

Chauncey, Tobias, esq , sheriff. of Northants , 113, 117, 118n

Chaunte Wood , nr Wellington and Marden, Herefs, 45* ,46, 50n

Chauntrye Landes, Le, Fladbury, Worcs, 189

Chawdell Shotte, Essex , 29

Chawnor , als Chalenor, Edmund, husb , rec , 84 ; see Challyner

Chaworth , Sir George , Knt , commissioner, 119* , 120*

Cheadle, Chedull, Staffs , 149 * , 150

Checkendon, Chakenden , Oxon , 127

Checkley, John, lessee , 113 , 117*

Cheddleton, Chedulton, Staffs., ciin; 149 , 153

Chediston, Chaddeston , Suff., 165* ; see Cheston

Chedulton, Staffs.; see Cheddleton

Cherrington , Salop. , cin

Cher(r)ington , John, ciin ; John, gent , ciin; John, yeoman, rec , ci* ; 137

Cherry, Chary, manor, Broxted, Essex, 26

Chesardu' , Bushbury, Staffs. , 151

Chesheare, William, husb , rec., 81

Cheshire, Ixxivn, lxxix, lxxx* , lxxxiii, lxxxviiin, ciii* , cvi* , cviii*, cxiiin; 9-13, 54, 58

Chester, Co. Palatine of, cvi, cviiin ; 13n

Chesterton Grange, Oxon, 122, 125, 128n

Chesterton Parva, Oxon , 128n

Cheston [? Chediston], Suff . , 163 * , 165*

Chetwinde, Chetwyn, Katherine, wid, rec , 152 ; Thomas , gent, rec , 145 , 148*

Chew(e), Edward, rec ., 70* , 71*

Cheynes, Long Stanton, Cambs. ,9

Cheyney, Francis, esq., sheriff of Bucks , 7

Chicklade , Chidlade, Wilts, 188

Childerditch , Childerwick, als. Childerdick, Essex , 166

Childwall, Lancs , 83

Chillington, Chillyngton , Staffs , 144, 150

Chilson, Richard, tanner, rec., 68*

Chilton, Magna, Co. Durham, 211*

Chinnor, Chynnor, Oxon, 126

Chipping, Chippen, Lancs. , 72

Chiselborough, Cheeselborough , Somerset, 143

Cholmeley , Sir Hugh, Knt. , commissioner, 12 ; Sir Hugh, senior, Knt ,

INDEX

commissioner , 11 ; Marmaduke, esq., 214 ; Richard, gent , rec , 219 ; Ursula, wife, rec , 214

Chorleton , Alice, spr -wife, rec. , 137 ;

William , gent , 137

Choulton , Cholton, Salop, 134

Christ Church, parish, London, 93, 94

Christopher (surname omitted), lab, rec ., 153

Church Eaton, Churcheyton, Staffs. , 149, 153

Churchecloses, Stanlake, Oxon, 122

Church-papists, xli, xliii

Churchwardens, xi, xiin, xxxviii*

241

Cocken, Francis, esq ,sheriffofDerbys, 17 , 19

Cockeram , George, gent , rec , 149

Codrington , John, rec , 185 ; John, gent., rec , 185

Coffyn, Peter, rec , 15* , 17

Coke, Sir Edward, Knt , viii*; xl, xlvi-vii ; General , xxvn*, xliiin*, xlvii, lxxiii ; see Authorities (printed)

Cokescrofte ; see Cookes Crofte

Coldham Hall, Stanningfield , Suff ., 159

Cole, Alice, spr , rec , 180 ; Thomas, gent., lessee , 191*

Coleman, John, lessee , 103*

Cirencester, Gloucs., 32*

Chyllington, Staffs.; see Chillington

Col(e)man Street, London, Wardof , 94

Colleigne [Robert], 86n ; see Colleigue

Clapham, W.R. Yorks , 204, 211

Claines [North], Claynes, Worcs , 197

Clapham, John, lessee , 19 , 20

Clarke, Edward, rec , 50n ; Elizabeth, wid , 45 ; Elizabeth, wife, rec , 127 ; Henry, gent , 127 ; John, yom., rec ., 94 ; Mary, wife, rec , 127 ; Richard, gent , rec. , 46 ;

William, Knt , 127

Clatherall, Lancs , 57; see Catterall

Claverley , Clareley, Salop, 133, 147

Clawes, John, gent , rec , 90

Colleigue , Robert, commissioner , 71

Colles, Alice, spr , rec ., 194 ; Mary, wife, rec ., 194 ; William , gent , rec ., 194*

Collibear, Colluber, Devon, 21

Collyer, John, rec , 146 ; Thomas, xxxixn ; Thomas , clerk, rec , xxxviin ; 145 ; Thomas , supposed rec ., and fugitive, 147

Claxton, Elizabeth, wife, rec. , 154 ;

William, gent , rec , 154

Clayton , Ann, wife, rec .,

Claughton, Lancs , 80* Sir 217 ;

Laurence , rec., 217

Clayton, Blackburn, Lancs, 70* ; W.R. Yorks , 202 ; in-le-Dale , Lancs , 70, 71 , 79

Clerkenwell , lxxxvn ; 15 ; Middx, 20, 23,94

Clerks (clerici), xxxvi* , xxxvii*; 58 , 108, 145 : see under Priests, Exchequer ; Parish, 93

Clerks of Assize, xln*

Cleveland, N.R.Yorks , 204, 210

Clifford, Herefs , 45* , 46

Clifton, Clyfton , Alice, wid , rec., 52, 60, 80 ; William, gent , rec , 54* , 59, 74 , 81

Clifton Campville , Clyston Camvile , Staffs , 150

Clink, prison, Southwark, xxin

Clint, W.R.Yorks , 219

Clipston , Clipson, Northants , 113

Clitterbuck, Jane, spr., rec., 180

Clun(e), Salop , 133 , 136

Clynnog, Clinnock, Clynnock, Carnarvons. , 224*

Cobb, William, lessee , 104 , 105 , 113n

Cobham , Henry, Lord, lessee , 94, 139

Cobles, Arlington, Sussex , 173

Collyns, Agnes, wife, rec , 198 ; Francis, yom., rec., 198 ; John, yom ., rec , 195 ; William, husb'n, rec ., 142

Collyson , Robert, rec , 119

Colne, Lancs , 70, 71

Colson, William; see Colston

Colston , Colson, William, tenant, 163 , 165

Colston,? Colwinston, Glam , 223

Colthirste, Ann, rec , 220

Colwich(e), Staffs , 152*

Colwinston , Glam.; see Colston

Combe, Oxon. , 127

Comberford , John, gent , rec., 149 ; see Comerford, Cumberfort

Comerford, Mary, wife, rec. , 151 ; William, esq. , 151

Commission ofthe Peace, xxiii Commissioners of inquiry, lxiii*, lxxiii, lxxv* , lxxxi-iii, xcn, xcivn, ci, cvin, cix ; and passim in Text ; for Ecclesiastical Causes , viii, xiin , xciin; see High Commission , Courts of Common Pleas, Court of,Westminster , xvii,xxvii,xlvi

Commons, House of ; see Parliament Commonwealth , lxxin, lxxii ; 222n ; see Interregnum

Compton Chamberlayne , Wilts. , 185* , 186

Compton Pauncefoot, Pansfote, Somerset , 140

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Congregationalists , viii

Constable , John, gent , rec , 106 ; Katherine, wife, rec , 220 ; Philip, esq. , sheriffofYorks , 213 ; Robert , gent. , 220

Constables, xxxviii*

Conwey, Alice, spr , rec., 155 ; Edmund, yom., rec , 149 ; Ellen, wid , rec , 155 ; Francis, lab , rec , 149 ; John, husb'n, rec , 155* ; Thomas , husb'n, rec , 155

Conyers, Christopher, esq , rec. , 216*; John, "farmer, " 114

Cooke , Alice, wid , tenant, 130* ; Ambrose, rec., xxin ; Dorothy, wife, rec , 140 ; George, rec , 146 ; George, tenant, 130*; George, yom., rec , 42 ; Henry, esq , rec., 8 ; Henry, husb , rec , 84 ;

Henry, tenant, 129, 130 ; Ralph, lab . , rec., 13 ; Roger, tenant, 130 ; William , 140 ; William, gent , rec ., 180

Cook(e)ley, Suff, 163* , 165

Cookes, John, yom. , rec. , 198

Cookes Crofte, Cokescrofte , Hinton Daubnay, Hants , 37,40

Copdock, Suff, 168

Cope, Sir Anthony, Knt , sheriff of Oxon , 121

Copley, Anthony, gent , rec , 180 ; John, gent , rec , 180 ; Katherine, Lady, rec., 172

Coppenhall , Copnall, Staffs , 151

Coppes Lease, Sparsholt, Berks , lxxi ; 4,5

Coppinge, Robert, blacksmith, rec , 111

Coppul, Cophill, Lancs, 73*

Copwood, Peasmarsh, Sussex , 177

Copyholders , xlv, xciin* , xcivn ; 186 , 187

Corbett, Richard, esq., commissioner , 135

Corby, Lincs , 89

Cordale, Francis, lxxvin

Cordell, William, lessee , 102* , 107* , 109 ; William , mastercook ofthe Queen's Kitchen, lessee , 173* , 174* , 178*

Cork, county, Ireland , xxin

Corker, Isabella, wife, rec., 84; Henry, husb , rec., 84*

Cornard, Great, Corverth, Cornerth Magna, Suff, 159 , 160 , 166* ; Little, Corneard Parva, Suff ., 160 , 166

CornardMagna, manor of, 160, 166

Cornewall , John, lessee , 223

Cornwall, xliii, lxivn, lxxxin, lxxxii, lxxxiv, lxxxvn , lxxxviiin, xcv* , xcvin , cn ; 14-17, 21*

Cornwallis[ ], viiin

Corpusty, Corpusti, with Irmingland, Norf., 110

Corse, Gloucs, 31* , 33* , 191

Cortider, Cornwall ; see Carthuther

Cosyn, John, 30n

Cotgreve, Margery, wid., rec , 13

Cottam, Cottom, Lancs , 53* , 69*

Cotton, Staffs., 144

Cotton, Francis, esq , lessee , 178 , 179*; George, esq., rec., xxx, lxxxiv ;40*; Henry, bishop of Salisbury , xciii, xcivn ; Mary, wife, rec , 41 ; Richard, gent , 41

Cottrington, Edward, yom., rec., 180

Courte, als Smithe, Edmund, 197 ; Elizabeth, wife, rec , 197

Courtney, James, esq., rec. , 19 ; als of Arrundell, Thomas

Courts, ecclesiastical, xvin ; civil, xin, xxxviii; see under Assizes, Common Pleas, Exchequer , King's Bench, Gaol-delivery, Quarter Sessions, Star Chamber , Oyer and Terminer, Sessions of The Peace

Coventrye, Vincent, lessee , 2*

Covert , Sir Walter, Knt , sheriff of Surrey/Sussex, lxviiin ; 175*

Cowardon , Humphrey,rec , 90

Cowdrey, John, yom.,rec., 42

Cowley, Oxon , 127

Cowmarshe Gifford ; see Crowmarsh

Cowpeland, Elizabeth, wid , rec , 218

Cowper, Eleanor, wid , rec , 198 ; Margaret, wife, rec., 198 ; William , yom , rec., 198

Coxe, Jane, wife, rec , 127 ;Katherine , wid. , rec. , 98 ; Ralph, yom., 127

Coxhoe, Coxhowe , Co. Durham , 211*

Crabadon, Crabbdon, Devon, 21

Cranborne, Cramborne , Dorset, 24

Crane, Nicholas, clerk, dissenter , ixn, xxxvi

Cranworth(e), Norf , 111

Crawley, Thomas, esq , rec ,26

Cregmoricke , St. Merryn, Cornwall, XCvn ; 16

Cressingham, Great, Norf , 108

Crewkerne , Somerset, 141

Cridling Stubbs, Kridlinge, W.R. Yorks , 205

Crip(p)es , Matthew, lessee , 159* , 161 , 167*

Crockett, Katherine, spr , rec , 11*

Croft(e) (Southworth with Croft), Lancs., 63

INDEX

Crofte, William , esq , rec. , 80*

Croftes , Edward, tenant, 129, 130

Cromarshe, Oxon .; see Crowmarsh

Crompton , Lancs , 62, 63*

Crompton , William, esq , sheriff of Staffs ., 153

Cromwell, Sir Henry, Knt , sheriff of Cambs. ,9

Cronton, Lancs, 83

Crooke, John, commissioner , 48* ; John, husb ., rec , 78* ; Laurence , rec ., 75* , 81

Crosby , Lancs., 65, 66, 78* ; Great , "Magna, " Lancs , 59 ; Little, "Parva, " Lancs , 59 , 78, 85 ; Much, Lancs , 85

Crosby(e) Hall, Lancs , 54 , 59

Croson, als ofJenkenson, John

Crosthwaite , Crosthwayte, Westmld , 184

Croston, Lancs , 10 ,55

Croucher, Elizabeth, rec., 177

Crowdson, William, tenant, 130*

Cro(w)marshe , Cowmarshe , Oxon, 123 , 124 , 126 ; Gifford, 123, 124*

Crunwere, Cronwer, Pembrokes, 224

Cryer, court-, xln*

Cublington , Oblington, Herefs , 45, 47

Cucklington , Somerset, 140

Cuff(e), Henry, xxin ; Hugh, gent, commissioner , 58 ; Hugh, gent , lessee, lxxviii, * lxxix ; 10* , 14* , 17, 26 , 31* , 32* , 33 , 34, 44, 45, 50n, 58, 92, 93, 95* , 144* , 148 ; Hugh, gent , informer, xvii-xxi, lxxix

Culliford, Culleford, Thomas, lessee , 19 , 36*

Culverhowse, Thomas ,husb'n, rec , 142

Culverwell , Clement , yom., rec., 141

Cumberfort , Dorothy, gentlewoman , rec ., 156 ; John, gent , rec , 156 ; William , junior, gent , rec , 156 ; see Comberford, Comerford

Cumberland , xlin, lxix ; 183

Cumberland , George, Earl of, sheriff of Westmld. , 184

Curson, Ann, wife, rec., 126 ; Francis, gent , 126 ; Katherine, wife, rec , 111 ; Thomas, gent , 111

Cutts, Sir John, Knt. , commissioner ,8

Dabrigcourt, Thomas , esq. , commissioner, 182

Dagenham, Essex, xcvii ; 29

Dalden,? Dalton le Dale [? or Dalton Piercy], Co. Durham, 211*

Dale, Joan, wid , rec , 150 ; Nicholas' rec., 72*

Dalton, James, yom , rec , 66

Dalton le Dale, Co. Durham ; see Dalden

Dame Margeries, farm, Suff., 165*; manor, Suff, 163

Damneck , Dominick, Robert, yom., rec ., 188, 188n

Danby, N.R. Yorks , 215 ; upon Yore, Danby Yore, N.R. Yorks , 206 , 210* , 216

Danby, Christopher, gent , rec , 207* ; Jane , wife, rec , 215 ; Richard, gent., rec. , 215* , 222n ; Thomas, esq , 215

Daniell, Danyell, Henry, gent , rec , 168 ; John, esq , rec , 160, 170n ; John, gent , rec , 25, 28, 159 ; Margaret, wife, rec , 168 ; William, gent , rec , 159

Danvers , Davers, Sir John, Knt , sheriff of Gloucs., 30, 32, 33n*

Danyell ; see Daniell

Darlington, Darlyngton, Co. Durham , 211*

Darnall, Darnell, W.R. Yorks. , 202

Darrington, Darryngton, W.R. Yorks , 217

Davenport (e), Margaret, wid , rec., 11 , 58, 60 ; William, lessee, 140 ; William, gent , lessee, 58*

Davers ; see Danvers , Sir John

David, Alice, spr., rec , 98 ; Jevan

Thomas , 96 ; Katherine, spr-wife, rec., 98 ; RogerJevan, 97

Davyes, Maud, spr , rec , 97 ; als Welshman , Thomas , rec., 141

Davys, John, yom. , rec , 188

Dawney, Sir John, Knt , sheriff of Yorks , 213

Daye, Hugh, gent , rec , 194* ; John, rec ., 121 , 122, 125 ; Margery, wife, rec ., 194

Dean of York ,xx

Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 89

Debden, Essex, 28, 29

Ded(d)ington , Oxon , 126

Dee, John, tenant, 3

Denbighshire, cviii,cixn

Dennington , Suff.; see Dynnyngton

Denny, Robert, tenant, 165

Dennys, Audley, 87*

Denston(e), Staffs , 145

Denton, Magdalen, wid., rec , 127

Denver, Norf , 105

Deopham, Depenham , Norf , 104

Derby, Earl of, 57

Derbye, WestDerby, Lancs, 82

INDEX

Derbyshire , xx, lvn, lxxin, lxxiin, lxxviii, lxxix, lxxxii, lxxxviiin, xcv ; 17-19, 68, 202

Dereham , West, Derham, Norf, 101

Desart , Earls of,xxin

Dethicke, Humphrey, esq., sheriff of Derbys, 18

Devereux , George , esq., sheriff of Warwicks , 182

Devonshire, xn, xxxvn* , lxxx, lxxxviiin , хсу, хсіхи, сп ; 19-22, 139

D'Ewes , Sir Simonds , xxii

Dewsbury , W.R. Yorks. ,208

Dey, Margaret, wife, rec , 151 ; Thomas , 151

Dichelinge Garden, Sussex, 171 , 179 ; see Ditchling

Dickenson , Alice, spr. , rec , 152 ; George, lessee, 132 ; Thomas, groomof"lepastrie, " lessee , 29*

Digby, James, tenant, 129 , 130 ; James, rec , lxxxi ; 129 ; James , gent, rec ., 128, 130

Diggins , Katherine, spr , rec , 180

Dinckley, Dynckley, Lancs , 70

Dinsdale [Low Dinsdale], Co.Durham, 211

Diptford, Dipford, Devon,21

Dissenters, xxxvii

Ditchling, Dichelinge, Sussex , 172 ; see Dichelinge

Ditton, Dytton , Lancs , 59, 67* , 83 ; als Dutton, Salop, 132, 135

Docton, John, gent , commissioner , 20

Doddiscombsleigh , DotscombeLeighe, Devon, 22

Dolman, John, esq , commissioner , 5

Dominick, Robert, rec , 188n ; see Damneck

Doncaster , Yorks , 202

Donhead, Dunhedd, Wilts , 186, 188 ; St. Andrew , Wilts , 185, 188* ; St. Mary, Wilts. , xciin

Donyford, St. Decuman's , Somerset , 138

Dormington , Herefords, xcvi

Dorrington, Ann, rec , 154 ; Elizabeth, rec , 154 ; Ellen, wife, rec. , 149 , 154 ; Lucy, spr , rec , 154 ; Mary, rec., 154 ; Thomas , gent , 154 ; Thomas, yom , 149 ; William, yom., rec , 154

Dorsetshire , xxxvn , lvn, lxxxiii*, lxxxviiin, civ ; 23-4, 35, 38, 39

Dorwyn, Robert, husb , rec , 65

Doule, John, 31

Dover , John, lessee , 104, 105, 113n

Down(e)ham, Essex , 30

Downes , Bridget, spr , rec , 112* ; Robert, rec., 100 ; Robert, esq , rec , 103

Dowse, Richard, yom , rec , 180

Dowsinge, John, tenant, 165

Doyly, Doyley, Henry, esq., sheriff ofNorf., 102 , 104, 107, 113n

Drake, Richard, yom., rec , 112

Drax(e), W.R. Yorks , 217

Draxe, Gamaliel, esq , 218 ; Isabel, wife, rec , 218

Draycott, Staffs., lxxxvi ; 155

Draycot(t)e , Draycott [ ], wife, rec , 154 ; Alban, gent. , rec , 149 , 153 ; Edmund, gent , rec , 154 ; Elizabeth, spr. , wife, rec , 137 ; Elizabeth, wife, rec., 155 ; Ellen, wife, rec., 149 , 153 ; John, esq., 149 ; John, esq., rec., lxviiin, lxxxvi , lxxxvii* , cxiin ; 137 , 148, 150, 157n ; John, yom , rec , 155 ; Philip, esq , rec , 150*

Drayton, Northants ; see Dreyghton

Drayton, Salop., 131 , 132, 133 , 134

Dreewood [? Brewood], Staffs , 150

Drett, Ranulf, gent , rec , 153

Drewrye, Anthony, xliiin ; Henry, rec., 162 ; Henry, gent , xliiin ; Henry, esq , rec , xlii ; 164* ; William, yom., rec , 115* ; see Drurye

Dreyghton, ? Drayton, Northants , 116, 118n

Drurye, Elizabeth, rec , 161 ; Elizabeth, wid , rec , xliiin,; 168 ; see Drewrye

Duckett, Henry, gent , rec , 93

Dudgrove, Kempsford, Gloucs, 31

Dudleston, Diddlaston, als Duddleaston, Salop., 134, 137

Duloe , Decklo, Cornwall, 15

Dunhedd, Wilts.; see Donhead

Dunne, John, gent., rec. , 168 ; John, lessee , 39* ; Samuel, rec , 168

Dunster, Somerset, 141

Dunston, William, lessee , 157*

Dunston , Penkridge, Staffs , 151

Duporte, Henry, gent , commissioner , 146* , 156n*

Durham, bishopof, cvin, cvii ; Bishopric of, cviin, cviii ; 211* ; city, lxxiiin ; 208 ; Co. Palatine, cvi* , cvii* , cviii* ; 211*

Durham, Richard, rec., xxin

Dutton, Salop ; see Ditton

Dutton, Lawrence , usher-in-ordinary of the chamber royal, lessee, 199* , 211 ; William, esq., sheriff of Gloucs. , 31

Dykes, John, yom., rec., 110

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Dynnyngton [? Dennington], Suff., 158* , 168

Dytowe, Elizabeth, spr. , rec , 13

Dytton Hall, Fen Ditton, Cambs .,9

Eardswick , Hugh, 11 ; Sampson, rec ., 11

Earnley, Garneley , Sussex , 177

Easington , Essington , W.R. Yorks , 133, 220

Eastbourne, Eastborne , E. Sussex , 174*

East(e), Edward, rec , 7 ; Edward, gent., rec , 122

Easthall , Denver, Norf, 105

East Meon, Hants , lxxvin

Easton, Eston , Hants, 41

Easton, George, rec , cn ; George, gent., rec , 139

Easton Bassett, Eston, als Eston Bassett, Wilts , 186

Eastrington , W.R. Yorks , 203

Eastwalton , Norf.; see Walton, East Eastwick, Norf , 106

Eaton Socon, Soken , Beds. , 1

Ebbesborne Wake, Ebbesbornewak , Wilts., 186

Ebnoy, Gloucs . ; see Epney

Eccles, Lancs , 56 ; Norf , 108*

Eccleston , Lancs, 68, 76

Edcason, Salop ; see Edstaston

Eden, Elizabeth, wife, rec. , 126* ; John, gent , 126

Edesforth , Mitton par., W.R. Yorks , 220

Edgmond, Salop, ci* ; 137

Edstaston, Edstason, Edcason, Salop, 133, 135

Edward I, King of England, lxxxivn

Edward VI, Kingof England, viii,x-xi

Edward , Blanche , wid , rec , 98

Egerton , Sir Thomas , Knt , Attorney General, xlvii

Eglesthroppe , Elizabeth, wife, rec . , 219 ; Michael, gent , 219 ; see Oglethorppe

Eglwys Cymmin, Eglewyskymmyn , Carmarthens . , 224

Egton , Exton, N.R. Yorks , 214

Eke, Katherine, spr , rec , 155 ; Margaret, wid , rec , 155

Eldersfield, Worcs , 31 , 33 , 191

Eldroth, le Eldrothe, W.R. Yorks., 211

Elinge, William, yeoman of the chamber royal, lessee, 28* , 29

ElizabethI, Queen ofEngland, passim; Household staff of (lessees of seized recusant lands), lxxv-vi, lxxvi ; 3 , 6, 7 , 20, 21, 26, 28* , 29, 32, 35, 38* , 39, 40, 42 , 47, 51, 55, 57 , 58, 79* , 122, 125 ,

245

132, 160, 161 , 163 , 164, 165, 171 , 173* , 174, 179, 199, 202, 203, 205,

208, 209* , 223

Ellen (surname omitted), spr , rec ., 154

Ellenhall, Staffs , 154

Ellerbeck , N.R. Yorks , 216

Ellerker, Robert, gent., rec , 203* , 212

Ellingham , Norf., 104 , 111

Ellisfield, Elleffield, Ileffeld, Hants , 34, 36

Ellys, John, rec , 141 ; John, yom , rec ., 194

Elmley Lovett, Worcs , 195, 198

Elston , John, rec , 141

Eltham , Kent, lxxxiv ; 213, 222n

Eltisley, Eltesley, Cambs. , 8

Elton, Co. Durham, 211

Emerson, Ralph, rec , Jesuit, xxin ; Ralph, yom. , rec , 180

Enfield, Midds , xxx

Englishcombe, Inglescombe , Somerset , 142

Englishe, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 127 ; John, gent., 127

Epney, Ebnoy, Gloucs, 32

Erand (? Brand), Norton in Hales , Salop . , 132

Ersham , als Hailesham , manor, Sussex , 179*

Eshton, W.R.Yorks ; see Assheton

Essex , xxxvn, xlii, xlix, lvn, lxiin* , lxxiii, lxxxiv , lxxxviiin, xcv, xcvii* , xcixn, cn, ciin, cv* ; 8 , 24-30, 166, 208

Essington, Yorks.; see Easington

Esthall, Merston, Kent, 52

Estillesley, Berks ;_see Ilsley, East

Eston, Wilts.; see Easton Bassett

Etchingham , Echingham, Sussex , 181

Euston, Ewston, Suffolk, xxx ; 169*

Evenley, Evenlye, Northants, 115

Everard, Henry, rec. , 163 , 167* ; Henry, gent., rec , 160 ; Nicholas, gent., rec., 168*

Everingham , John, gent , rec , 217

Eveside, Henry, chaplain to the Queen, lessee, 7*

Evill,? Yeovil, Somerset, 143

Ewre, Ralph, Lord, sheriff of Yorks., 199, 211, 222n

Ewston, Suff.; seeEuston

Exchequer, Westminster , xlviii-liii;and passim (Departments) Account, "Upper" Exchequer of, xlix, 1 , lii* ; Augmentations , Court of, cviin

Augmentation Office, liiin Exchequer Chamber , liin; "Lower" Exchequer (see Receipt , Exchequer of) ; Pipe Office, 1-li,

INDEX

liii, liiin, lv, lviii, lxin* , lxii, lxiv* , lxvn, lxxxii, lxxxvii, xcii, xciv , ciii, cvii, cix ; Receipt, Exchequer of, xiv, xx, xlix, li-iii, lxv, lxviiin, lxxviiin, lxxxix, ciii, civ, cvii, cix ; Revenue Court, xlix, lii*, liii, lxxiv, cv* , Tally Court, liii, lxvin; Treasury, xlix, lii, lxxiv, lxxviii* , lxxxv , lxxxvi* , xci* (and passim in Text) ; "Upper"Exchequer , see Account, Exchequer of (Officers), Auditor of the Receipt, li, liii ; Auditors, lxvi, lxvii, lxixn, lxxxvii, lxxxix* , xcn, cvii, cix; Auditors of the Land Revenue, cvii,cix*; Barons, xvii* , xx, xxvi, xliiin, xlviii, xlix, lii, liii, lix, lxin, lxvn, lxxxvi, lxxxix, xcii, cv, cvii (and passim in Text) Baron, Cursitor (4th), lviiin, lxvi

Baron, Second, 24 ; Calculator, xlviiin ; Chamberlains, xlix, li, lxvi* ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, xxvi, xlix-lii, lix* , lxin, lxvn, cix ; 52, 115, 135, 147 (see Under-Treasurer) ; Clerk of the Estreats, li, lviii* , lix-lxii ; Clerk of the Pells, xixn, li-liii, lxv, Ixviin, lxxv, civ, cxin ; 170n ; Clerk of the Pipe, l-li, liiin, liv* , Iviiin, lix-lxiii,lxvii, ciii* ; Clerk of the Pipe, Secondary to, lxn, ciiin; Controller of the Pipe, li, lviiin, lxiv, lxv* , ciii ; Foreign Apposer, lix ; Knights, li ; Receivers (Crown), Ixixn ; Receivers General, cviin ; Remembrancer , Lord Treasurer's , xxxn, xlix-liii, lviii , lx-lxiii, lxxiv, cvii, cix (and passim in Text) ; Remembrancer , Queen's (King's), xvii, xlix-liii, lxxxvi* , cvii ; 1 , 63, 213 ; Remembrancer , Second, 219, 222n ; Tellers, xxviin, li-liii, lixn, lxn, lxin , lxiin, lxv, lxvi ; Treasurer , Lord, xx* , xxvi, xlviii, xlix-liv, lix* , lxi* , lxiii, lxv, lxxivn, lxxv, lxxxviin, lxxxix; Under-Treasurer, xlix, lixn, lxxivn (see Chancellorof the Exchequer)

Exchequer of Pleas , lii

Exchequers (palatine), cvii ; (sheriffs'), lxvn ; (Wales), cix

Exton, Hants., 37 ; Yorks , see Egton

Eye, Suff., 168

Eynsham, Eynesham, Oxon, 121

Eyreman , Francis, gent , rec , 93* ; Margery, wife, rec , 93

Fairburn, Farburne, W.R. Yorks , 220

Fairebrother , Thomas, potter, rec , 82

Faldringe , parish, Staffs , 155

Faldringe , Alice, wid , rec , 155 ; Edward, lab , rec , 155 ; William, lab , rec , 149 , 155

Familists , ix

Farford, Devon, 20

Farley [? Farley Chamberlayne ], Hants, 42

Farlington, Hants , 174* , 179

Farmers (of seized recusants' lands), xxin, lxiiin, lxxiv, lxxv, lxxxixn ; see lessees (Crown's)

Farmor, Sir George, Knt , sheriff of Northants , xxxiin ; 116

Farn(e)ham, W.R. Yorks , 219

Farringdon Within, London, Ward of, 93, 94; Without, London, Ward of, 93, 94

Far(r)ington, William, esq , commissioner, 56, 60 , 80

Faukes, George, rec , 175 ; George, gent., rec ., 175*

Fawk(e)nor, Fawkoner, Edith, daughter, 184 ; Isabel, wid., tenant, 130*; William, gent , rec , lxxvin ; 35, 184, 185

Fazakerley , Lancs , 79* , 82

Fazakerley , Margaret, wid , rec , 82

Felkirk(e), W.R.Yorks., 221

Felstead, Felstede , Essex ,28

Felton, Thomas, lxxvi* ; Thomas, lessee, lxxvin ; Thomas , gent., lessee, 161, 166*

Fen Ditton, Fendytton, Cambs.,9

Fenton, Richard, rec , 217 ; Richard, gent., rec , 202, 217

Fenton Vivion [Stoke on Trent], Staffs , 146

Fermsbie, W.R. Yorks.; see Ferrensby

Ferrensby, Fermsbie , W.R. Yorks , 219

Ferrers , Elizabeth, rec. , 182

Ferrys, Edward, usher-in-ordinary of the chamberroyal, lessee , 122 , 123 , 125*

Fesant , Henry, tenant, 129, 130

Fettiplace , Fetyplace , Edmund, esq., commissioner , lxxi, lxxii, lxxvii ; 4,5

Fezarde, John, yom , rec. , 188

Fifeild, Walter, gent , lessee , 187

Finborough , Fynbarowe, Suff , 167

Finch , Henry, M.P., ixn

Fincham , Fyncham, Norf. , 112

Finch(e)ley, Middx , 94

Finchingfield , Essex, 8, 28

Fines, Richard, esq , commissioner , 123

Firebeacons, Devon, 20

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Found, William, lessee , 221

Firle, West, Westfirles, Westfurle, Fourde , Francis, lab , rec. , 155 ; Sussex , 175, 175-6

FishertonAnger, Wilts , lxxvin

Fitzherbert, Fytzherbert, Richard, gent , rec , xxxixn ; 145 ; Richard, gent , rec., fugitive, 146

Fitzjames , Jane, wife, rec. , 140 ; John, gent , 140

Fitzwilliams, William, esq , commissioner, 91 ; William, gent , lessee , 90, 91*

Fladbury, Worcs , 189

Flannack, William, esq , commissioner , 15

Flaxland, Flexland, Llancarfan, Glam., 223

Fleet prison, London, xx

Fleetwood , Fletewood, Edmund, commissioner , 73, 75

Flemynge, Fleminge, Thomas, esq., commissioner , 36-7, 37, 40

Fletewood ; see Fleetwood, Edmund

Flintshire, cviii

Flookburgh , Fluckborowe, Lancs , 61

Flott, manor, Playden , Sussex, 175 , 176

Flower, Dorothy , spr , rec , 169

Fluckborowe , Lancs .; see Flookburgh

Fludd, Evan, gent , rec ,9*

Follyatt, Follyott, Margaret, wife, rec., 197 ; Michael, rec., 191 , 193 ; Michael, gent , rec , 197 ; Thomas, esq., 191

Fonte[? orFoute], John, buttonmaker, rec ., 152

Force, John, gent , rec , 142*;

Katherine, wife, rec. , 142

Forchdwm , Glam , 223 Michaelston-on-Avon,

Ford, George , yom , rec , 168 ; see Fourde

Forrest, John, esq , lessee , 165 , 166 ; John, gent , lessee , 158*

Forster , Dr.A.M.C., lxxiiin; Thomas, esq., lessee , 100, 107 , 108*

Fortche Tom , Michaelston-on-Avon , Glam ., 223

Forthe, Robert, esq., sheriffofSuffolk , 157, 164, 167, 170n

Foster, Alex' , gent., rec., 168 ; Ann, spr , rec , 110 ; Humphrey, esq., commissioner , 3 ; Humphrey, gent, rec., 134 ; Sir Humphrey, Knt , sheriff of Berks , lxxxiiin , civn; 1 , 5 , 6n ; Richard, physician, rec , xviiin

Foulrice, N.R.Yorks, 215

Foulscott ; see Fulscott

James, husb'n, rec., 155 ; James, yom. , rec., 149 ; John, yom. , rec., 126 ; Philadelphia, wife, rec , 155 ; Philippa, wife, rec , 150 ; see Ford

Foute , John; seeFonte

Fovant , Fovente,Wilts, 188

Fowbrise, Yorks.; see Foulrice

Fowelescott ; see Fulscot

Fowlar, Thomas, yom , rec , 49*

Fowlthorpe , John , gent , rec., 216

Foxe, Constance , wid , rec , 94

Foxeholes, Thurstaston , Cheshire, 9

Foyghe Thomissa, Michaelston-onAvon, Glam., 223

Fradswell , Frodeswall , Staffs. , 152

Framlingham , Sir Charles, Knt , commissioner , 162

Franchams , Holmedale , Norf , 101

Francke , Henry, esq , 214 ; Margaret, wife,rec , 214

Freeman, John, lab , rec , 151

Frickley, W.R. Yorks. , 204, 217*

Frodington , Hants, 37 , 40*

Frognall, Teynham , Kent. , 51 , 52

Frome Selwood, Froome Zelwood , Somerset, 142

Frostenden Hall, manor , Suff., 165*

Frowd , Edward , tenant, 185

Fugitives ; see Recusants

Fuliambe , Constance , rec , 18 , 19

Fulmer, Bucks,7

Fulscot , Foulscott, Berks , lxxvii ;4* Fowelescott ,

Fysher, Nicholas, gent , rec .,93

Fyssheborne, John, rec , 119

Gage, Edward, esq., lessee , 171* , 173 ; Elizabeth, Lady, rec , 172 ; George, gent., rec , 93 ; John, rec , xxx* , xxxin, lxxxiv*; John, esq., rec., 178 ; Lady Elizabeth, wid , rec , 171 ; Thomas , gent , rec , 172, 179

Gaie, Richard, husb'n, rec , 141

Gale, Thomasina, wid , rec , 220

Gallymore, Joan, wid , rec , 156

Gamble, Christopher, tenant, 106

Gaol -delivery , Sessions of, xxiii, xxv* , xxvi* , xxviii-ix, xxxii, xln, xli, xcviii*

Garden, Richard, lab , rec ., 151

Gardiner , John, rec. , 7

Garneley , Sussex, 181n ; see Earnley

Garnyshe, Garnisshe , Nicholas, esq., sheriffofSuff ., 160* ; commissioner , 164

Garshall, Garringshall, Staffs., 144

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Garsington , Carsington, Oxon, 127

Garstang (e), Lancs , 76

Garstange, William, rec , 56

Garston , Lancs, 79, 83

Garway , Garwey , Herefs , 43*

Gascoigne, Joan, wife, rec , 214 ; Richard, esq., 214 ; William, gent , rec ., 218

Gattacre, Francis, esq , rec , 132 , 135 , 147*

Gat(t)acre, Hall of, Salop , 132 , 135

Gawdye, Bassingburn , esq., commissioner, 106 ; sheriff of Norf , 99 , 109* , 113n

Gawen, Thomas, rec , lxxvin ; 186

Gawsell, Edmund, tenant, 105

Gear, Gayre, Cornwall, 15

Geddington, Northants. , 115

Geest, Edward, yom , rec , 193 ; see

Gest(e)

Gelstroppe, Thomas, gent , rec., 218

Gentt, Gente, Grente, Thomas, esq , second baron of The Exchequer , lessee, 24*

George II, KingofEngland, xxxvn

George III, KingofEngland, xxivn

George, Mary, wid , tenant, 223

Gerrard(e), Elizabeth, spr-wife, rec ., 81 % ; John, lessee , 25* ; John, gent , rec , 67 , 81 ; Mary, wife, rec., 139 ; Thomas, gent , rec., 67, 81 ; William, rec , cn ; William, gent., rec , 23, 94* , 139*

Gest(e), Edward, husb , rec , 195 ; Frances, wife, rec , 195 ; George, husb , rec , 195* , 199n ; see Geest

Gifford, John, esq , rec , 144, 150* ; Joyce, wife, rec , 150 ; Roger, esq., doctor of medicine, lessee , 211* ; Roger, physician to the Queen, lxxvin

Gildridge, Alice, spr. , rec , 174 ; Lancelot, gent , rec , 173 , 178*

Gill, John, lessee , 78*

Gilpin ; see Guilpin

Gisburn(e), W.R.Yorks,220

Gislingham , Suff., 163

Gissing(e), Norf, 107

Glamorganshire , xlvii, cviii ; 223*

Glascock , Ann, spr , rec , 180

Glasshampton , Worcs, 191 manor [Astley],

Glastock, Alexander, tenant, 8

Glemhams, manor, Suff.; als. of Wrightes

Gloucestershire, lxxxn, lxxxviiin; 3033, 191 *

Gnosall , Staffs , 152

Godfield[Godsfield], manor, Hants , 34

Godlin(g)ston, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, 23

Godstow(e), Oxon , 121

Goldsmith , John, gent , xiii ; 37 , 41*

Goldwyre , Edward, yom., rec , 194

Gollyfers, Stanlake, Oxon , 122 ; Close, Stanlake, Oxon , 122

Gomond, John, rec , 43 ; John , gent, rec ., 47

Goodacres , Ann, spr-wife, rec , 93* ; William, gent , rec , 93*

Goodrick(e), Goodderycke , Richard, esq , sheriff of Yorks , 201 , 205, 209, 214

Goodsole, Thomas , husb'n, rec , 143

Goodwyn, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 153 ; John, blacksmith, 153 ; John, gent, lessee , 37, 40* , 41*

Goole, Gowle, W.R. Yorks , 203

Goose, Edmund, tenant, 106

Goosnargh, Gos(e)nargh(e), Lancs , 73, 74, 76

Goscote, Goscott, Staffs. , 145

Gosden Parke , Devon, 20

Gosdiche Street, Cirencester , Gloucs., 32

Gould(e), Joan, wid., rec , 153 ; John, yom., rec , 24 ; Ralph, yom. , rec ., 194

Goyte, John, lessee , 38*

Graces, Beachamwell , Norf , 99

Grafton, William, lessee , 9, 10

Grafton, Worcs, xliii

Grand Committee Room, Westminster , liii

Granger , William, rec , 200, 212

Grantees (ofrecusant property), lxviii*, lxxxvi-vii, civn , cxii

Gravecake, Leigh, Lancs. , 83*

Gravenor , Gravenar, Katherine , spr, rec., 137 ; Margery, spr, rec , 137 ; Richard, gent , rec. , 132 ; see Grosvenor

Grazeley, Berks.; see Greishill

Great Park, Le, Alvechurch, Worcs, 189

Greene, Grene, James, esq , 215 ; Joan, spr , rec , 198 ; Joan, wife, rec , 149 ; John, 192 ; John, rec , 197*; Margaret, wife, rec , 198 ; Mary, wife, rec , 215 ; Norton, gent , rec , 51, 52 ; Richard, rec., 24 ; Thomas , 149 ; Thomas, gent , rec , 194 ; Thomas, yom , rec , 182

Greenham , Greneham , Ashbrittle, Somerset, 139

Greenstreet , Essex , 26

Greenwood, John, clerk, dissenter , viiin , xxxvi

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249

Gregorye , John, lessee, 186*

Gregson, John, rec , 72*; John , linen-webster, rec , 66, 81

Greishill (? Grazeley), Berks, 2

Grenefyld , Upton on Severn, Worcs., 192

Grente, Thomas ; see Gentt

Greseley, Thomas, esq , sheriff of Derbys, 18*

Greston, Devon, 20

Gretton , Northants, 115

Gretton, Thomas, xxxixn ; Thomas, supposed rec. and fugitive, 147

Greves, Ann, wife, rec , 195 ; John, yom., 195

Grey, Robert, rec , lxxvin ; Susanna , spr., rec , 111

Grey, de, Robert, rec , 107 ; Robert, esq , rec , 102* , 104, 107, 160

Greysley , Thomas, esq , lessee , 143* , 148*

Griffen, John, servant to the Queen , lessee , 223 ; see Griffin, Gryffyn

Griff' ; see Griffeth

Griffeth, Griffithe, Griff' , Ambrose, 49 ; Joan, spr., rec., 96 ; Katherine, spr -wife, rec ., 96 ; Lucy, wife, rec ., 49 ; Robert, gent., lessee , 224, 225; Griffith(e), Thomas, lessee , 139*; William, gent, rec., 223 ; see Gruffithe

Griffithes, Griffethes, Ann, wife, rec , 49 ; William , gent , rec ,49*

Griffyn , Margery, spr , rec , 94 ; see Griffen, Gryffyn

Grimston , Norf , 105

Grimston , Charles , xxxviii

Grindle, John, yom., rec , 188

Grinstead , East, Estgrinsted , Sussex , 180

Grosmont , Gromonde, N.R. Yorks , 215

Grosvenor, Cecily, spr , rec , 154 ; Jane, wife, rec , 154 ; Ranulf, gent., rec., 154 ; Robert, gent, rec . , 154 ; see Gravenor

Grove, David, rec , xc-xcii, xcivn ; 187 ; John, rec , lxxxix-xciv ; 185, 187* ; Thomas , 187 ; als Seller , Humphrey, husb'n, rec , 142; als Seller, Robeit, husb'n, rec., 142

Gruff, Ellen, spr , rec., 97

Gruffithe, Margaret, wid , rec , 96 ; see Griffithe

Grundisburgh , Suff , 168

Gryme, John, husb'n, rec , 155 ; Margaret, wife, rec , 155

Gryffyn, Edward, esq , tenant, 115 ; see Griffen, Griffyn

Gryndon , John, yom , rec. , 140

Guilden Downe, Clun, Salop , 136

Guildhall, London , xxvn

Guilpin, Guylpyn, Gilpin, Barnard, gent , lessee , 99* , 100* ; Francis, Controller of thePipe, lxvn

Guldeford , Henry, esq., xxxi ; John , esq , xxxi

Gunpowder Plot, xcivn* , cxin

Gutteridge , Gutterydge , Simon, husb. , rec . , 114 , 115, 116, 117*

Gwenna, Cornwall ; see Gwinear

Gwernesney, Gwernesni , Mon., 98

Gwinear , Gwenna , Cornwall, 15

Gyles, Elizabeth, rec , Iviin ; Elizabeth , spr.-wife, rec ., 97 ; Jane, spr , rec , 97 ; Walter, 97

Haddock; see Haydock

Hadzor, Hadsor, Worcs, 193

Haggins [manor], Norf, 100 , 103

Hagley, Hageley, Worcs, 195

Hailesham , manor, Sussex; als of Ersham

Hailsham, Harlesham , Sussex, 179

Hais, Thomas , tenant, 171

Hale, Clement, yom., rec , 180

Hales Hall, Norf. , 110

Halesowen, Hallesowen , Worcs , 195 , 198

Haleston,? Laleston , Glam , 223

Halesworth, Hallisworth, Halsworth, Suff ., 163* , 165

Hall [ ], tenant, 159 ; Humphrey, lab , rec., 152 ; Isabel, wid , rec , 127 ; James, servant, rec., 139 ; John, gent., 167 ; Katherine, wid, rec., 41 ; Katherine, wife, rec , 167

Hallam, Edmund, lab., rec., 156 ; Isabel , wid , rec , 156

Hall Garthe, Le, Long Riston, E.R. Yorks , 204, 209 , 213

Hallow, North, Hallowe, Worcs, 194

Hallywell, John, gent , rec , 68

Halsnead, Halsnade , Lancs , 63

Halton, Bucks. , 48

Hambledon , Hants , 38*

Hamlyn, Robert, yom. , rec , 149

Hamond, Alexander, yom , rec . , 111

Hampden, Mary, wife, rec., 111 ; Thomas, gent., 111

Hamperton (? Hampreston), Dorset, lxxxiiin; 24

Hamphall Stubbs, als Stubbes Hampall, W.R. Yorks , 205

Hampreston , Dorset ; see Hamperton

Hampshire , xiii, xv, xxi, xxx, lxxvin, lxxviiin,lxxix, lxxxn* , lxxxiv* ,lxxxvn, lxxxviiin* , xcvn, ciin* , civ ; 33-42, 174* , 179, 184 , 186

HampstallRidware , Staffs , 144 , 155

Hampstead, London,xxxi

Hampsthwaite , W.R. Yorks., 219

Ham , West, Westham , Essex, 26*

Hamworthy, Hamworthie, als Southam , Dorset, 38

Han, William , yom., rec , 15 , 16

Hanbury, Staffs., 149

Hancockes, Ellen, wife, rec , 156 ; John , yom , 156

Hankyns, John, gent ; see Haukyns

Hanley, Staffs ., 146

Hanley Castle, Worcs , 190 , 191 , 192 , 197

Hanson , Elizabeth, spr , rec , 156

Harberton, Herberton, Devon, 21

Harborne, Warwicks.; see Horborne, Staffs

Hardshaw , Harshaghe , Lancs , 62*

Hard(e)wick, Clifford, Herefords, 45 ; Oxon , 127 ; manor, Oxon , 123

Hare, Michael, rec , xxx, lxxxiv; Michael, esq . , rec , 166

Harfle, Katherine, wid , rec , 41

Harley, Salop., 132, 137

Harper, Elizabeth, spr , rec , 151 ; John, gent , rec , 49 ; Nicholas, gent , rec , 49 ; William, gent , rec., 49 ; see Harpur

Harpur, John, esq , commssioner , 18* , 19 , 19n

Harpurs Hey, Thurstaston, Cheshire,9

Harrington, Sir James, Knt , sheriffof Rutland, 128

Harris, John, lab , 152 ; Thomasina, wife, rec , 152 ; see Harrys

Harrowden , Northants , xxxi ; 9, 88, 113, 116 ; Great, Northants , 113; Little, Northants , 113

Harry, David, 99 %; "Jenetta, " spr.wife, rec , 99

Harrys, George, gent , rec , 195 ; John, 187 ; see Harris

Harryson, Margaret, wid., tenant, 130*

Hart, Isabel, wid , rec , 151

Hartfurthe, Thomas, gent , rec , 52

Harting, Hartynge, Sussex, 175*

Hartsmeare , Staffs ., 144

Harvington, Worcs., 132

Hampstall Ridware,

Chaddesley Corbett ,

Haseley, Oxon, 127

Haslam, Roger, pedlar, rec , 82

Hastinges , James, tenant, 107

Hatfield, Herts, lviii

Hathersage , Derbyshire, 202

Hatton, Sir William, lxxxiiin

Haughley, Hawley, Suff, 168

Haughton , John, husb ., rec., 62*

Haukyns[? or Hankyns], John, gent, tenant, 175, 177 137 ;

Haward , Cecily, spr , rec , Katherine, wife, rec , 84 ; William, webster , rec , 84*

Hawes, John, yom ,rec , 110

Hawker, Thomas, senior, husb'n , rec., 143

Hawkeslowe , Kings Norton , Worcs, 189

Hawkins, William, Sergeant-at-Law ; see Authorities (printed)

Hawkyns , Lawshall, Suff, 164*

Hawthorne, William, tenant, 3

Hawthorpe, Awthorp, Lincs. , 89

Hay, Herefords, lxxxixn

Haydock, Haddock, William, gent, rec ., 53* , 69

Hayle, Thomas, gent ,rec , 25

Haynes, Ann, spr , rec., 198

Hayward(e), Brian, husb , rec , 67 ; Edward, junior, rec , 61 ; Edward, senior, rec ., 61

Haywood, Little, Parheywood , Staffs, 143

Heandon (? Heanton Punchardon), Devon, 20

Heanton Punchardon , Devon ; see Heandon

Heathe, Dorothy , wid., rec , 189 , 198 ; William , junior, rec. , 189*

Heat(he)house , Buriton, Hants , 39, 40

Helbeck(e) [? Hillbeck], Westmld., 183*

Heligan, Cornwall ; see Hellegie

Hellegie(? Heligan), Cornwall, 15

Helwys , Edward, lessee , 89*

Hemsby, Hembesby , Norf , 106

Hennage, Michael, gent , lessee , 88 , 89*

Henner , Humphrey, husb'n, rec., 155

Henry IV , King of England, Iviin

Henry VII, King of England, xvin, cviin

Henry VIII, King of England, cvin, cviin , cixn*

Henslowe , Thomas, esq , lessee , 174* , 179

Hentland, Clifford, Herefs,45-6

Heptenstall, Helen, wife, rec , 217 ; Thomas , rec , 217

Herbert, Katherine, spr., rec., 99

Herberts,manor, Rayleigh, Essex, 28* , 29

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Hereford, city, lvin, lxxxixn, xcvi, 49* ; diocese, xin

Herefordshire , xlvii, xlviii, lvin, lxxvin , lxxix, lxxxn* , lxxxviiin , lxxxixn,xcv, xcvi, civ; 43-50

Heron, Edward, commissioner , 90

Hertford Castle , xviii

Hertfordshire, lvn, lxix*

Hesketh(e), Thomas , esq., commissioner , 56, 59, 60* , 61, 68, 69* , 78 , 80, 145 ; William , rec., 10 , 55

Heveningham , Ann, wife, rec , 150 ; Sir Arthur, Knt , commissioner , 107 ; Walter, esq., 150

Hewe, Alice, rec , 95

Heydon , Sir William, Knt., commissioner, 108

Heylyn, Richard, commissioner , 136*

Hicks, Leo, S. J. , lxxvin

Higgenson, Higginson, Thomas , lessee , 146* , 148*; Thomas , rec , 182*

Higgyns, William, yom. , rec , 195

Higgynson , John, 137 ; Margaret, wife, rec. , 137

Highampton , Higheanton, Devon, 21

High Commission , Courts of, xvin

High Easter, Highe Ester, Essex, 27

Highley Carr, Winwick, Lancs , 51

Hilborough, Hilbroughe, Norf., 100 , 108

Hill, Alice, daughter, rec. , 197 ; Alice, wife, rec , 197 ; Ambrose, gent., rec., 141 ; Elizabeth, wife, lessee, 145* , 148* ; George, lessee , 202 ; John, rec , 141 ; John, gent , rec ., 141 ; John, yom., rec , 197* Richard, rec., 190, 192, 193 ; Richard, son, rec , 197 ; Thomas, lessee, 145* , 148* , 151

Hillbeck, Westmld.; see Helbeck(e)

Hillesley, Hildesley, Margaret, wid. , rec , 123, 124* ; Walter, rec , 123 , 124*; William, 124 ; see Illesley, Ildesley

Hillingdon, Middx , 93

Hillyard, Sir Christopher, Knt., commissioner , 203

Hilton, Andrew, gent , rec , 183* , 184*

Hilton, Hylton, Staffs , 152 ; (in Murton), Westmld, 183

Hindley, Hyndley, Lancs , 59, 82

Hindlip, Hynlipp, Worcs. , 194 , 197

Hinton Charterhouse , Charterhowse Henton, Somerset, 142

Hinton Daubnay, Henton Dawbeny, Hants, 37, 40*

Hinton St. Mary, Henton Marye, Dorset, 24

Hints, Hynce, Staffs , 152 X

Hitcham, Hicham , Suff , 162

Hitcheman , John, rec., 31 ; Ralph, husb , rec , 83

Hitchmeugh , William, linen webster , rec . , 84

Hixon, Stowe, Staffs, 153

Hixon, Thomas , lessee , 35* , 36

Hochenson, George, lessee , 45, 46*

Hockenhull, Hocknell, Cheshire, 10

Hockering(e), Norf, 107, 111 ; Park , Norf , 107

Hockley, Essex , 28*

Hocknell, John , esq , lessee , 10, 11 ; John, esq., rec., 54 ; John, gent , rec , 11* , 13n ; Margaret, 11*

Hockworthy, Devon, 139

Hodgeson, Clement , rec , 220* ; John, yom , rec , 215 ; Katherine, wife, rec., 220 ; William, husb , rec , 76* , 78* , 81

Holborn, London, lxxxvn ; 93

Holcrofte, Hamlet, gent., rec., 56, 60 ; Thomas, esq , commissioner , 60

Holden , Margaret, wid , rec , 56, 69* , 80* , 81 ; see Houlden

Holdernes(s), E.R. Yorks. , 204* , 209, 213

Holland, Cassandra, wife, rec , 151 ; Richard, esq., commissioner , 59* , 81 ; Thomas , yom , 151

Hollandridge , Hollingridge, Oxon, 122

Hollington, Sussex , 179

Hollinhey, Winwick, Lancs , 67

Hollyman, John, yom , rec. , 194

Holme, Winwick, Lancs , 81 ;Cultram, Cumberland, xlin; Hale, Holmehale, Holmehall, Norf, 108 , 110 , 111

Holmedale [Holme Hall], Norf. , 101

Holmes , [ ], parish clerk, 93 ; Agnes, spr -wife, rec, 93*

Holtfarme, Harting, Sussex , 175

Holton, Suff . , 163* , 165

Hood Grange, Hoodegraunge [Kilburn : N.R.], Yorks , 216

Hooe, Hoe, Sussex , 171

Hoord(e), Thomas , gent , rec , 123 , 125 ; William , rec., 34* ; William , gent , rec ., 36

Hopecarr , Hoppcarre, in Bedford, Leigh, Lancs , 83

Hopkynson , Hopkinson, John, lessee , 23* , 122* , 125 , 126

Hopton, Staffs , 155

Hopton, Thomas, yom , rec , 221

Horborne [? Harborne ; formerly Staffs , now Warwicks.], 151

Hordle Breamore, Hordell Bremor , Hants., 38, 39

Horndon , Horneden, Essex, 166*

Hornsey, Harnesey, Middx, 93

Horny(h)old, Alice, wife, rec , 196 ; George , gent., 196 ; Katherine, spr. , rec , 196

Horseman, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 127 ; Thomas, esq., gentleman sewer , lessee , 51* ; Paul, gent , 127

Horsham, Horssham, Sussex, 172 , 180

Horsington, Somerset , 140

Horton, Devon, 20 ; ? Houghton, Herefs, 46* ; Staffs , 153 ; manor, Upper Beeding, Sussex, 170

Horwood , Radygon, spr , rec., 196

Houghe, William, esq., rec. , 10*

Houghton , Herefords.; see Horton

Houghton , Katherine, spr.-wife, rec , 85 ;Peter, sheriffofLondon/Middx , 92 ; Richard, gent , 85

Houlden , John, 56 ; Margaret, wid , rec ., 57 , 59* ; Richard, 56 ; see Holden

Houses of Correction , xxvi; Bridewells see

Howar, John, woollen webster , rec. , 72*

Howbery, Howberie, Oxon , 124* ; Farm, 124

Howell, Elizabeth, spr. , rec., 97, 98 ; Mary, spr -wife, rec., 98 ; Matilda, spr. , rec, 97 ; William,98

Howlbrooke , Richard, tenant, 28

Howle, Thomas,yom ,rec , 138

Howton , Houton, Herefs , 46

Hub(b)ert, Henry, esq., rec., 112 ; Henry, gent., rec , 159

Huckerbye, William, gent , lessee , 104 , 109*

Huddleston , W.R. Yorks , 218

Hughe, ap, John, yom , rec. , 136*

Hughes, Katherine, spr , rec , 98

Hughley, Salop., 132, 135

Hulse, Thomas , rec , 2

Hungate, Margaret, wife, rec , 218 ; William , esq., 218

Hungerford , Edward, esq , sheriff of Wilts , lxxxixn, xcii*, xciii* ; John , esq , sheriffofWilts.,xciii

Hungerstone , Hongerston , Herefs, 45

Hunnis , Hunnys, William , lessee , lxxvin ; William, gentleman of the chapel royal, lessee, 47* , 161 * , 162 , 209* , 212

Hunte, Elizabeth, spr , rec. , 42 ; Simon, husb ., rec., 42 ; see Huntt

Hunter, Dorothy, rec , 214 ; Dorothy , wid., rec ., 202

Huntingdonshire , xliii, lv* , lxix, lxxn , lxxxiv ;7,50

Huntman , als Tenent, Ambrose, tenant, 203

Hunton, Robert, gent., rec., 140

Huntspill, Somerset , 142

Huntt, Ann, spr , wife, rec , 42 ; Thomas , 42 ; see Hunte

Hurdcott, Hurcotte, Wilts , 186

Hurl(e)ston , Ranulf, esq , commissioner , 55, 58

Hursley, Hurslye, Hants, 41

Husbond, Ralph, gent , lessee , 144*

Hussey, Charles , esq , sheriff of Lincs , 88 ; Lawrence , groom of thechamber royal, lessee, 160* , 167*

Hutton, Essex, 30

Hutton, John, esq , lessee , 7, 8* ; Matthew, Dean of York, xx, xxin

Thomas, clerk, rec., xxxviin ; 58*

Sir Timothy, sheriff of Yorkshire, lxvn* , xcn, cviiin

Hutton Bonville, Huton Benvell, N.R. Yorks , 216 ; Mulgrave, Mowgrave, N.R. Yorks., 216 ; Rudby, N.R. Yorks , 216

Huxley, Thomas , husbandman , rec., 13

Huysshe, Silvester , rec , lxxxixn ; Silvester, gent , rec , 138

Huyton, Hyton, Lancs . , 61

Hyde, Family, lxxviin ; Richard, esq., lessee, lxxvii, lxxviii* ; 4, 5*

Hytche, Jane, wife, rec., 126 ; Thomas , gent., 126

Hyton, Richard, gent,rec., 64*

Iden, Sussex, 175, 176* , 177, 181n

Iden, John, lessee, 51 , 52

Idsworth, Idesworth, Hants. , 35

Ildesley, Robert, tenant, 3 ; see Hillesley, Illesley

Ileffeld, Hants.; see Ellisfield

Illesley, Ilsley, Farm, Berks, 3

Illesley, Ildesley, Walter, gent , rec , 3 ; see Hillesley, Hildesley

Ilsley, East, Estillesley , Esthillesley , Berks., 3, 124

Immingham , Lincs , 90* , 91

Ince, Lancs , 65 ; Blundell , Lancs , 59

Informers, xiv* , xv-xx, xxv, xxxiv, xxxviii, xl-xli, xlvii, xlviiin, lxxix,cxii

Ingleby, John, esq , rec. , 216* ; John, gent., rec., 204* , 210, 219 ; Thomas, gent., rec., 204* , 211

Ingol, Ingole, Lancs, 69

Ingoldmells , Lincs , 88*

IngramGrange,Welbury, N.R.Yorks.; seeAngram Graunge

Inkberrow , Inckbarrowe, Worcs , 196

INDEX

Inner Temple, London, 94

Inskip, Lancs., 76

Interregnum , xxiin, lviin ; see Commonwealth ; Protectorate

Inwardleigh, Inwardley, Devon, 22

Ipsden Bassett , manor, Oxon , 121

Ipsden (Ippesden ) Huntercombe , manor, Oxon , 121

Ipston(e)s , Staffs , 149 , 155

Ipswich(e), Suff., 168

Ireland(e), "Geneta," wid , rec , 84 ; Thomas , yom , rec , 68*

Ireland, xxin

Irmingland, Norf.; see Corpusty

Irnham, Irenham, Lincs , lxxvin ; 88, 89*

Irthlingborough, Irtlingburghe, Northants., 116

Isham, Northants , 113

Islington, Norf., 104*

Issherwood , Christopher, rec , 73*; John, 69, 80

Itchen Abbas , Abbottes Itchinge, Hants , 40* , 42

Ivychurch (e), Kent, 51

Jack(e)son, Edward, rec , 101 , 109*

Edward, clerk, rec , xxxviin ; 108*

Edward, husb , rec , 74 , 81 ; Francis, rec., 205 ; Francis, gent, rec , 218 ; Jane, wife, rec , 218 ; Richard, yom., rec. , 220

James I, King of England, xin, xiin, xvi, xviin, xxiiin, xxxiiin, xxxviin , xxxviiin, xlin, xlivn, lxin, lxvn , lxxxin, lxxxiv , lxxxviin, xcvn, civn* , cixn, cxin ; andpassim in Text

James, Alice, spr., rec., 152 ; Henry, gent., rec., lxxxv* ; Thomas , lab. , rec., 151 ; Thomas, tenant , 3

Jeninges, George, yom , rec , 126

Jenkenson , als Croson, John , tenant , 129, 130

Jenkyn , EdwardWilliam , 97

Jenkyns, Jane, spr , rec , 98

Jermyn, Ambrose , rec., 25

Jerning(e)ham ,[ ], gent , 93 ; Mary, spr.-wife, rec ., 93*

Jervis, William, rec , 133

Jesuits , xxin,xxxviin, xliiin

Jettor, Robert, rec., 161

Jevan, Cicilia, spr , rec , 96

Jevan, ap, David, gent , rec , 223

Jewett, William, lessee, 133 , 134*

rec., 99 ; Joan, spr -wife, rec , 98 ; Katherine, spr-wife, rec , 97 ; "Llen' , " rec ., 223 ; Margaret, spr, rec , 98 ; Margaret, spr.-wife , rec ., 97

John, ap, Rice, 97 ; Walter David, 98

Johnson , Alice, serv't, rec , 143 ; Gerard, yeoman, xlin ; Joan, spr. , rec , 150 ; John, lessee , 173* ; John, "milner, " rec., 75* , 77* , 80

Thomas, husb , rec , 66* , 80 ; als Wilkinson, Thomas, husb , rec., 76*

Joice ; als of Taylor, Henry

Joller, Ursula, serv't, rec , 141

Jones, Edmund, rec , 45 ; "Gresilla, " spr.-wife, rec ., 97 ; Henry, 97; Walter, esq., sheriff of Mon., 95 , 96,99n

Joyseys, Beachamwell , Norf, 99

Judges,xviiin, xxiin,xlvi ; ofEngland, xxxvii, xli*,liin, xciin , ciin

Jury, grand, xxxvii-viii; petit, xl ; for assessment, lxiii* , lxxiii, lxxxi, ci

Justices , xiii, xxiii, xcvi* , xcviii, cix ; of Assize , xii, xiii, xxviin, xxviii, xln, lx, cix ; of Gaol-delivery, xiii, xxviii* , xln ; of Nisi Prius, xviii; of Oyer and Terminer, xii, xiii, xxviii ; of the Peace, xiin, xiii,xv, xxiii, * xxvn,xxxviii

Justis , John, husb'n,rec., 142

Karlion' , Cumberland; see Carlisle

Keelinge, John, lab , rec , 151

Keeper, Lord, ofTheGreatSeal , Ixiiin

Kegworth , Leics, 18

Kekewiche, George, esq , commissioner , 15

Kelfield, Kelfeild, E.R. Yorks , 220

Kelling(e), Norf , 110

Kellway, Dorothy, wife, rec , 23 ; Robert, gent , 23

Kempsford , Kemsford, Gloucs. , 31

Kemys, Edward, esq , sheriff of Mon., 95 ; Maud, spr, rec ,97

Kemyshe, Kemishe , Jane, wife, rec , 140 ; John, gent , 140

Kenninghall , Keningale, Norf., 112

Kent, lxxxn, lxxxiv, lxxxv, lxxxviiin, ciiin ; 51-52, 213, 222n

Kentchurch , Kenchurch, Herefs , 43, 46, 47, 49

Kerrio(c)k, Margaret, wife, rec. , 49 ; Thomas , yom., rec , 49*

John, Edward Dio, rec , 223 ; Elizabeth, spr , rec , 96 ; "GwenIliana , " spr , rec , 97 ; Joan, spr , 253

Kervile, Henry, esq., 111 ; Henry, rec , lxxvin ; 105, 109* ; Henry, gent , rec. , 119 ; Winifred, wife, rec., 111 ; see Carvile

Kes(s)ingland , Suff., 159

Kettleby(e) [Thorpe], Bigby, Lincs , 91* ; see Thorpe

Kexbrough , Kykesboroughe, W.R. Yorks., 200

Keyes, Thomas, cook-in-ordinary to the Queen, lessee, 32*

Keyhaven, Hants , 38

Keymer, Henry, esq , rec , 143

Keynes, Edward, gent. , rec , 140* ;

Katherine, wife, rec , 140

Keynsham, Kaynsham , Somerset, 141

Keys, Thomas , lessee , 158* , 159*

Kighley, Elizabeth, rec , 55 ; Roger, gent , rec., 74*

Kilburn, N.R. Yorks ; see Hood Grange

Killigrew, Henry, teller in the Exchequer, xxviin , lxin

Killinghall, Kyllinghall , W.R. Yorks., 219

Kilpeck, Kylpeck, Herefords . , 45 , 49

Kilshett, Lancs, 56

Kilvington, N.R. Yorks , 214, 215 ; North, N.R. Yorks , 216

Kindesley , Richard, yeoman of the chamberroyal, lessee, 79* , 80

Kinge, John, rec , 141

King's Bench , Westminster , court of, xiii, xvii, xxiii, xxvn, xxvii-ix, xli, xlvi, xlvii

Kings Norton, Kingesnorton, Worcs. , 189, 194, 196

Kingston , Staffs .; see Kinson; upon Thames, Surrey, 175

Kingstone , Kingston, Herefs ,45

Kingswinford, Swynford Regis, Staffs , 149, 150

Kington, Kyngton, Worcs , 196

Kinnersley , Herefs, 49

Kinson [? Kingston], Staffs , 155

Kirk(e)by [Malzeard], W.R. Yorks . , 218 ; South, Southkirkebye, W.R. Yorks., 200

Kirk(e)ham, Lancs , 10 , 52, 55, 64* , 74* , 77

Kirkeshawe , John, husb , rec , 71* ; see Kyrkeshawe

Kirkestanley, W.R. Yorks.; see Stainley, North

Kirkland, Kirkeland, Lancs , 57* , 58

Kirkley, Kirley, South Lowestoft , Suff . , 159

Kiverknoll, Kevernoll, Herefs , 45

Knappinge , William, yom , rec. , 168

Knapton, Elizabeth, spr , rec , 169

Knaresborough , Knaresbrough , W.R. Yorks , 219

Knarisbrough , Katherine, wife, rec. , 219 ; Mary, wife, rec , 219 ; Peter, gent., rec., 219 ; Walter, gent., 219

Knight(e), Knyght, Alice, wid. , rec , 34* , 36, 37 , 39, 40 ; Constance, wife, rec ., 41 ; Robert, gent , 41 ; Robert, rec , 34* , 36, 37 , 40

Knolles ; see Knowles

Knottingley, W.R. Yorks , 217

Knowle, Knowell, Grace, wife, rec , 143 ; John, rec , 75* , 77* ; Knowell, William, gent , 143

Knowles , Knolles, Agnes, rec , 145* , 146, 156n ; Agnes, wid , rec , 146 ; John, rec., 145* , 156n

Knoyle, Wilts , 187

Kydd (e), Margaret, spr-wife, rec , 82 ; Richard, husb , rec , 82*

Kynnebye, Francis, yom , rec , 103

Kyrkeshawe , John, husb ., rec , 70* ; see Kirkeshawe

Kytchen, John, gent. , 127 ; Mary, wife, rec., 127

Ladyhall, Walsall, Staffs , 145

Lake, Alice, wife, rec , 83 ; William, husb., rec., 83*

Laleston, Glam.; see Haleston

Lamberherst [Lamberhurst], Kent., 51

Lamberte , Grace, wid., rec., 208

Lamorran, Lamoran, Cornwall, 15

Lancashire , xvi, xviii, xxin, xxxn* , Xxxi* , XXXVn , xxxviin, xlvii, lxix, lxxii, lxxiii, lxxvn, lxxvin, lxxxn* , lxxxi , lxxxiii , lxxxiv, lxxxviiin, lxxxix, xcn, cin, ciin, ciii* , cvi* , cviii* , cxn , cxiiin * ; 10* , 51 , 52-87

Lancaster , Lancs , xviiin ; 55, 82 ; Co. Palatine of, cvin ; 56, 80 ; Duchy of, cvi* , cviii; 56, 85n* , 86n*

Lancasters, manor, Suff.; als. of PountneyHall

Landmoth , Lanmouth, N.R. Yorks , 215

Lane, Felicia, spr , rec , 152 ; Margaret, wid ., rec , 151

Langford, Nicholas, esq., rec., xx, lxxxiiin; 17, 18, 19* , 68, 69

Langford, Wilts , 3 ; Derbys.; see Long(e)ford

Langred , Ellisfield , Hants. , 34

Langton, Robert, webster, rec , 82

Langvyle , Henry, esq , sheriff of Bucks. , 7

INDEX

Lanherne, Cornwall, xliii

Lanshaw , Landshawe , W.R. Yorks , 211

Larratt, Robert, tenant, 129 , 130

Lathom (e), Lancs, 62

Lathom(e), Henry, rec , 55, 81 ; Ralph, lessee , 162, 163*

Lathwayte, Henry, rec , 60 ; Robert, senior , husb., rec., 82 ; see Laythwaite

Laugharne , Carmarthens . , 224

Launde, Le, Alvechurch, Worcs , 189

Launsdall , Lancs .; see Lonsdale

Laurenson ; see Lawrenson

Laverstock, Wilts , 184

Lawe, Robert, husb., rec , 71* , 72* , 81

Lawes, Henry, yom , rec. , 110* , 113n

Lawrenson , Laurenson , John, blacksmith, rec , 75* , 77* , 80, 81

Lawshall, Lawshull, Suffolk, xlii; 164* , 168 ; manor, Suffolk, xliiin; 161 , 162, 164*

Lawson , Elizabeth, rec , 214 ; Elizabeth, wife, rec , 214 ; Geoffrey, commissioner , 183 ; Ralph, esq , 214 ; Robert, 204

Lawton [? Lowton], Lancs , 62*

Layghton, Layton, Essex ; see Leyton

Laythwaite, Lathwayte, Henry, yom., rec . , 58 ; see Lathwaite

Layton, Laton, Lancs , 77 ; East, Estlayton, N.R. Yorks , 201 , 213

Lea , Salop, 135

Leake, N.R. Yorks., 215

Ledsham, W.R. Yorks , 218

Ledston, Ledeston , W.R. Yorks , 203*

Lee , George, lessee, 102* , 107* , 109* , 159, 160 ; George, yeoman of the Queen's private kitchen, lessee, 165* ; Gilbert, gent , 218 ; Jane, wife, rec., 218 ; Margaret, wid. , rec ., 127 ; Margery, wife , rec , 152 ; William, 152 ; als Webber, Thomas , lessee, 162 * ; als Webber, Thomas , of the Queen's private kitchen, lessee, 164* , 165

Leed(e)s, W.R. Yorks , 218

Leedes , Mary, wife, rec., 217;Thomas, rec , 201 , 220 ; Thomas , junior, gent , rec., 217 ; Thomas , senior, gent., rec , 217*

Leek(e), Staffs ., 150

Lees Hill, Derbys, 19

Leethe, Ann, wid., rec. , 197

Leicestershire , lvn, lxxxviiin, civ; 18 , 87 , 147* , 151

Leigh, Leygh, Lancs , 64, 83 ; Staffs , 149, 155

Leigh(e), Leyghe, Edward, esq., commissioner , 146 , 156n* ; Peter , sheriff of Co. Pal Chester , cviiin; Ralph, yom. , rec., 149

Leighton, Neston, Cheshire, 11

Lenham, Leneham, Kent, 51

Lessees (Crown's), lxxiv-vii, ciii*, civn* , cxii (and passim in Text) ; see Elizabeth I, household Staff of; Farmers

Lever, John, gent., commissioner , 59

Leveson, Thomas, esq , sheriff of Staffs ., 147

Lewes, William, rec , 95*

Lewick, John, rec. , 141 , 142*

Lewis, Griffin, commissioner , 191 ; Katherine, spr., rec , 98

Lewkenor , Richard, esq , commissioner, 177*

Ley, Agnes , wid , rec , 155 ; Alice, spr., rec., 155 ; Elizabeth, rec , 155 ; Francis, husb'n, rec , 155 ; George, husb'n, rec., 155 ; John, husb'n, rec , 155

Leyton, Layghton, Layton, Essex , xlii, xcvii* , 29, 208

Liddington, Rutland, lxxxi ; 130 Lighshawe , Lighshay,

Lightshaw , Lancs ., 55*

Ligon, Hugh, rec , 190, 193 ; see Lygon

Lillye, John, rec., Jesuit, xxin ; John, yom. , rec , 180

Lincoln, Dean and Chapterof, 89

Lincolnshire , xxxi* , xlvn, lxxv, lxxvin , lxxxin, lxxxviiin, lxxxixn ; 88-92

Lindale, Lyndall, Lancs , 61

Lindley, Linley, Leics , 87* , 147*

Lingen , Richard, esq., rec , xcvi

Linste (a)d Parva, Suff , 160

Linton, Lynton, Cambs , 8 ,9

Linwood , Lyndwood, Lincs. , 89

Litherland, Lytherland, Lancs. , 65, 85

Litlebury, Andrew, gent., rec , 89* , 91, 92

Litleton, George, gent , rec , 149 ; Sir Edward, Knt , sheriff of Staffs ., 143 , 148 , 157n

Litlewood, Bradley, Staffs , 144

Littlefeild , Agnes, spr , wife, rec., 42 ; Arthur, 42

Liverpool, Lyverpoole, Leverpoole, Lancs , 55, 59, 82

Llanbethery, Llanbetherne , par of Llancarfan, Glam, 223

Llancarfan, Llancarvan , Glam., 223*

Llandenny, Mon., 98

Llanforda, Llanvorda, Salop., 131

Llangattock [nigh Usk], Mon., 95 ; [Vibon Avel], Mon., 98

Llangewydd , Langwich, Glam , 223

Llangibby, Llangebye , Mon., 97

Llanhen(n)ock, Mon., 97

Llanlowell, Mon., 95

Llanrothal(1), Herefs . , 49*

Llantilio Crossenny, Gressennye , Mon. , 98 ; Pertholey , Mon., 99

Llanvethyn , Llanvithen, Llancarfan par., Glam . , 223

Lovell, Robert, rec., xxxii ; 99* ; Robert, esq., rec ., 100 , 112 ; Thomas, xliiin

Lowe, Jerome, gent , rec , 114* , 115

Lower, Thomas , esq , sheriff of Cornwall, xcv* , xcvi ; 14, 17

Lowestoft, Lowstofte, Suff, 162 ; South , Suff . , 159

Lowton, Lancs ; see Lawton

Lucies, grange, Donhead, Wilts, 186

Lucy, Thomas , esq , sheriffof Gloucs, 31 , 33n

Pontymoil

,

Llanvihangel (1) Llantarnam,juxta Llanternam, Mon., 97 ; Pountmoell, Mon., 96 , 98

Lloid(e) ; see Lloyd(e)

Lloyd(e), Lloid(e), Edward, lessee, 131 * ; John , rec ., 131 , 137 ; John, junior, lessee , 131 * , 136* , 137* , 138n ; Richard, rec., 131

Lloynemayn , messuage, Llwynymaen, Salop , 131

Llwynymaen , Lloynemayne , Salop. , 131

Lockesmythe , Richard, gent. , lessee , 52*

Lockwood , John, gent , rec , 215

Lodsworth , Sussex, 180

Lokyer, William, yom., rec , 180

Londesborough, Londesbroughe , E.R. Yorks , 203

London , vii, xv* , xvi, xx, xxin, xxviiixxx, xxxvi* , xln, xlin, xliv, lvi*, lxxvin, lxxxvn, xcviii, c* ; 28* , 93* , 94* , 204, 210, 211 ; city of, xviiin, xxviii-ix ; 92 ; diocese of, xv ; Records office,xxix

London/Middlesex, sheriffwick, xxin , lxxxivn, lxxxvn* , lxxxviiin, xcvii, xcviiin, c* , ciin ; 92-94

Longbridge Deverill, Deverells Langbridge, Wilts., 36

Longdon, Worcs, 191 , 197

Long(e)ford, Langford, Derbys, xx ; 18* , 68 ; Parke, Derbys, 18

Long(e)worth, Peter, schoolmaster , rec ., 73* , 76*

Longfeyld, John, husb , rec , 135

Long Melford, Suffolk, xxviin ; 158 , 159, 168 , 169 ; Parish, Longeparisshe, als . Middleton, Hants, 36 ; Stanton, Cambs., 9

Longslow , Longeslowe , Salop, 132

Longton, Robert, husbandman , rec , 13

Lonsdale, Launsdall, Lancs , 80

Lords, House of ; see Parliament

Loune [? Louve ; Lonne], Margery, spr., rec ., 149

Love, William, tenant , 106

Ludbrocke , Ann, spr , rec , 169

Ludcotte, tenement, Cornwall, 14

Ludlow, Salop., lxxxixn

Ludshott, Lydshott, Hants , 34, 36 ,39 , 40*

Ludwell, William, husb'n, rec , 142

Luestley, Lancs ; see Luzley

Luff, John, tenant, 129, 130 '

Luffenham , North, Northluffengham , Rutland, 128 , 129*

Luke, Alice, daughter, rec , 141 ; George, shoemaker , 141 ; Nicholas, esq. , sheriffof Beds , Ixx, lxxxviin; Lunde, Grace, wife, rec , 217 ; Robert, 217

Lune, Loyne, river, Lancs , 80

Lutterell, George, esq. , sheriff of Somerset, 138

Luzley, Luestley, Lancs , 64-5

Lydbury North, Lidbury Northe, Salop , 134* , 135

Lydshott, Hants ; see Ludshott

Lygon, Barbara, wife, rec. , 197 ; Hugh, gent , rec., 192 , 197* ; see Ligon

Lymer, als of Sherrott, Margery

Lymington, Lymyngton, Hants, 40

Lynacre, James, esq , rec., 179

Lyndall, Lancs.; see Lindale

Lynes, Edward, weaver, rec , 151

Lynn(e), Norf., 103

Lynne, Ann, spr., rec , 111 ; Cecily, spr. , rec ., 111

Lyntall, John, gent , rec , 168

Lynton, Cambs.; see Linton

Lyster, Alice, wife, rec , 220 ; Robert, tenant, 28 ; Thomas , esq , 220

Lythall, Ann, wid , rec, 133

Lythe, Lyeth, N.R.Yorks , 205, 207

Lytherland, Lancs.; see Litherland

Lyttleton, George, esq ., rec , 150 ; seeLitleton

Macclesfeild , William , rec ., 144 ; see Maxefeild

Madley, Herefs, 47, 49

INDEX

Madley, Margaret, wife, rec. , 149 ; Thomas , yom., 149

Maer, Meare, Meere, Staffs , 149, 154*

Maesog, May(s)og, Clynnog par., Carnarvons . , 224*

Maghull, Margaret, wid , rec , 85

Malard, Jane, wife, rec , 49 ; Robert, 49

Malham, William, lab , rec , 181

Mancell ; see Maunsell , Rice

Manchester , Lancs , xviiin

Manckton, Christopher, esq., rec., 203, 212*

Manfeyld, Henry, esq., rec. , 6

Manners , John, esq. , commissioner , 18

Mannock, Ann, rec., 8 ; Ann, gentlewoman, rec ., 168 ; Francis, gent , lessee , 25*; William, junior, gent., rec., 27

Mansell; see Maunsell,Rice

Manton, Lincs. , 91

Manwaringe , Oliver, gent , rec , 66

Manxell, or ? Mauxell, Anthony, esq , tenant, 223

Mapledurham , Oxon , 121

Marden, Mardon, Herefs., 45 , 49

Maresfield, Marisfeld, Sussex, 171

Margam, Margan, Glam ., 223

Margeram, John, lab., rec., 153

Margery [surname omitted], spr , rec., 152

Markeham, Gervase, esq , 91, 92n

Markeland, Margaret, spr -wife, rec , 82 ; Oliver, gent , 82

Markeland Mylne, Lancs , 63

Marled Feild, Le, Garston, Lancs , 79

Marledheys , Thurstaston , Cheshire, 10

Marl(e)ston, Marston, Maston , Berks. , lxxi , lxxvii; 4*

Marrall, Thomas , husb , rec , 66

Marriett, Marryett, Humphrey, rec , 113 ; Humphrey, gent , rec , 114 , 115

Marser, Margery, wid., rec , 85

Marshe, Katherine, wid , rec , 83

Marshe Farme, Longdon, Worcs., 191

Marston, Kent ; see Merston

Marston, Merston, Bigott, Somerset , 142

Marten, Margaret, spr , rec. , 168 ; Roger, esq , rec , 158

Marten, Wilts , manor of, xciin; West, Wilts , 187*

Martham, Norf , 106*

Martin, Martyn, Alice, wid , rec , 209; Ann, wid., tenant, 175, 176 ; Richard, gent , rec , 25 ; see Martyn

Marton, Little, Lancs. , 78

Martyn ; see Martin, Ann

257

Marvin, Marvyn, Edmund, rec , 139 ; Edmund, esq , rec , 140; SirJames, Knt , lessee , 35* , 184 , 185* ; Sir James, Knt., sheriff of Wilts, xcii, xciii

Marwood , Henry, lessee , 25* , 159* , 167*

Mary, Queen of England, xi , lvi, cviin; Queen of Scots , xxii

Masham , Waffam, N.R. Yorks , 215

Mason, Ann, wid , rec , 73*; Ellen, wid , rec , 81 ; Richard, gent., lessee, 133, 136*

Massey , Massie, Massye, Ann, rec , 55 % ;B

Dorothy, wife, rec , 83 ; William, esq., 83

Mathiman [Mathewman], Custance, 181, 181n ; Thomasina , wife, spr. , rec . , 181 , 181n

Ma(u)nsell, Mancell, Elizabeth , wife, rec., 141 ; Katherine, rec , 141 ; Rice, gent , lessee , 103 , 104* , 105* , 109* ; Richard, esq, 141 ; Richard, lessee , 202*

Mauxell, or ? Manxell, Anthony, esq., tenant, 223

Mawdesley , Lancs , 55

Mawdisley, Richard, yom. , rec. , 83

Mawgan, Maugan, Mawyan, Cornwall, 15 , 16 ; in Pyder, Cornwall, 15

Max (e)feild, Andrew , gent. , rec , 154 ; Ann, wife, rec , 154 ; Humphrey, gent., rec., 154 ; John, gent , rec. , 154 ; Katherine, spr , rec , 154 ; Margaret, spr , rec , 154 ; Ursula, wife, rec., 154 ; William , rec , 154*; William, gent , rec , 154*; see Macclesfeild

Mayfeild, Kingstone, Herefs , 45

Maynard, Edward,tenant, 122

Mayney(e), Ann, wid , rec , 51*

Mears Ashby, Asshebye, Northants , 113

Mease , Barbara , wife, rec., 219 ; Marmaduke, tanner, 219

Meeke, George,tenant, 163

MeereLane Ende, Caverswall , Staffs. , 146

Melford, Suff.; see Long Melford

Mellinge, William, husb , rec , 85

Mellis, Melles , Suff., 161 , 163

Mells, Suff.; see Milles

Melton, Norf. , 112

Melton, Katherine, spr, rec , 110

Mennell, Margaret, wid , rec , 216 ; Thomas, esq. , 214 ; Thomas , esq., rec , 215 ; Winified, wife, rec , 214

Mensthorpe , S. Kirkby, W.R. Yorks. , 200

Meole Brace , Meolbrace , Salop, 133 , 135

Meon, East, Eastmeane, Hants, lxxvin; 35, 184

Mercer, William, husb., rec. , 84

Merioneth, Co. , cviii

Merrye, Henry, lessee , 18 , 19

Merston, Marston , Kent, 52

Merton, Marten, Martyn, Norf., 102* , 104* , 107 * , 111

Messingham , Lincs , 91

Metcalf(f), Metcalffe, Brian, gent. , lessee , 205 , 206, 207 ; Gilbert, gent , rec., 216

Metham(e), [ ], wife, rec., 217 ; Francis, 201 ; Gregory, gent., 217 ; Katherine, wife, rec , 214; Thomas, esq., 214

Michaelston , Michelston, Mighleston, -on-Avon, Glam ., 223*

Michelles , Berks.; see Migheals

Mickfield , Mycklefeild, Suff, 168

Micklethwaite, W.R. Yorks ; Migtelwhite

Mickleton, Gloucs, 32

Middlemore, see George, gent , 196 ; Henry, esq , lessee , 189* , 190 ; Jane, wife, rec , 196 ; John, esq., rec ., 189 , 196

Middlesex, xxviii* , xxix* , xxx ; 20* , 23, 93 , 94* ; Guildhall,xxix

Middleton, Ripon, W.R. Yorks , 218 ; Tyas , N.R. Yorks , 214 ; Winwick, Lancs , 63* ; als Long Parish , manor, Hants , 36

Middleton, Philip, yom., rec. , 112 ; Thomas , yom., rec , 110

Midleton, Cambs.; see Milton

Migheals, Michelles, Berks , als. of SulhampteadBanister , 3*

Mighell, Owen, lab., rec. , 169

Migtelwhite [? Micklethwaite], grange , [? W.R.] Yorks , 209

Milburne, Christopher, yom., rec , 218

Mild(e)may, Anthony, esq., sheriff of Northants , 117, 118n ; Humphrey, esq , sheriff of Essex, 24, 29 ; Walter, Chancellor of the Exchequer, lix

Milden, Suff.; see Myldinge

Milford, North, Northmillfurthe ,W.R. Yorks., 201, 217, 220

Milles [? Mells], Suff, 158 , 163* , 164 , 165*

Milles,Alice, spr , rec , 42 ; Richard , esq , sheriff of Hants. , 33, 41, 42n

Milles Ende , Suff., 165

Millicent (t), Robert, lessee , 128* ; Robert, gent , lessee , 129, 130 , 130n

Milner , Elizabeth, wid , rec , 84

Milpine Brooke, Peasmarsh, Sussex, 177 ; Wood , Peasmarsh, Sussex, 177

Milson, John, husb'n, rec , 142

Milton, Hants , 42 ; als Midleton, Cambs., 7 , 8

Milwich(e), Staffs, 144

Minoo, William, gent , rec , 152 ; see Minors, Mynors

Minors, Minoo, Miners, William , gent., 157n* ; see Mynors

Mitton , W.R. Yorks , 220

Mockinhall, Radwinter, Essex, 28

Mollineux , Mollyneux, Richard, esq , lessee , 53* ; William , husb , rec , 82

Mones [? or Moues, Moves], Henry, husb , rec. , 84

Monkton , West , Somerset, 141 Westmunckton,

Monmouthshire , lviin, lxxx, lxxxviiin, ciin, cxiiin ; 95-99

Montgomery, Co., cviiin

Moore, Alice, spr , rec , 126 ; Henry, fisherman , rec , 196 ; John, gent , rec., xcvii* ; 29 ; John, yom , rec., 180, 195 ; Thomas, gent , rec ., 208 ; William, fisherman, rec ., 196 ; see More

Moorgate, London , xxix

Moor Hall, Moorehall, Aughton, Lancs , 82

Morcott(e), Rutland, 128, 129* , 130*

Mordaunt, Mordant, Thomas Louis, Lord, xxxiin* ; 116* , 118n*

More, Cresacre, rec , xliin ; Thomas , rec., xlii ; see Moore

Moreton, George, esq , sheriff of Dorset, 23

Moreton [? Mortham], Rokeby, Yorks , 199*

Morgan [? Margam], Glam., 223

Morgan, Eleanor, spr.-wife, rec , 96 ; Elizabeth, spr , rec , 99 ; James, gent., 45 ; James, yom , rec , 194; Joan, spr., rec , 99* ; Katherine, wid., rec ., 99 ; Roger, gent , rec. , 96* ; Thomas , esq., rec ,45

Morley, Morreley, John, rec , 88, 90, 91* , 92 ; John, yom., rec., 89* , 91*

Morleys, manor, Norf. , 104

Morris, Morrys, Ann, spr , rec , 111 ; Ann, spr-wife, rec , 98 ; David, 98 ; Henry, junior, husb'n, rec., 140 ; Stephen, husb'n, rec , 140 ; Thomas , husb , rec , 197 ; William, carpenter , rec , 154

Morrison, Morisonne, Thomas , esq , Clerk of ThePipe, liv* , lxn* ,

Morrys ; see Morris

INDEX

Mortham , Rokeby, N.R. Yorks.; seeMoreton

Mortimer, Mortymer, Berks. , 3

Morval, Morvell, Cornwall, 14

Mos(s)borough, Lancs , 55 ; Hall, Lancs , 55

Moseley Tyltes, [? W.R.] Yorks , 208

Mosse, John, carpenter , rec., 61 ; Thomas , tenant, 165

Mott, manor, E. Sussex, 176* , 177

Moues; see Mones, Henry

Moulton, Bridget, spr , rec , 168 ; John , yom., rec , 168

Moundford, Beatrice , spr., rec , 111

Mouscley, John, spr -wife, rec , 93* ; John, yom., 93

Moves ; see Mones, Henry

Mowbrick , Mowbreck, Lancs , 53*

Molbrick,

Mowgrave [Hutton Mulgrave], N.R. Yorks , 216*

Mowsill, Ann, wife , rec , William , 196

Munday, Anthony, xxxviii

Munster, Ireland, xxin

Murfeeld, Hockering, Norf., 107

196 ;

Murfyne, John, lessee , 108 * , 134* , 136* , 172* , 178

Murton, Westmld , 183

Mussenden , Richard, gent , lessee , 202, 203

Muttleberye, Thomas, gent , 141

Muxon, Muckleston, Staffs , 149* , 154

Myldinge [? Milden], Suff , 166

Mylvescott, [? Eshton : W.R.] Yorks , 209

Mynors, William, rec , 43, 48* ; see Minors

Nanfan, Giles, esq , rec , 191

Naylior, Ann, wid. , rec. , 82

Neale , Sir John, Knt ,xxii

Neave, Walter, yom., rec., 112

Netherbury, Dorset, 24

Nethercourte , Clifford, Herefs, 45

Netherhall, manor, Stanstead, Suff , 158

Nevell, Henry, esq., commissioner , 173

Newbiggin , N.R.Yorks , 214

Newe, Abraham, tailor, 127; Frideswide, wife, rec., 127

Newe Poole Meadow, Alvechurch , Worcs., 189

Newett, John. , lessee , 114

Newgate , gaol, London, xxvn, xxix* , xxxvi, xcviii*

Newhall, Eccles, Lancs , 56 ; Winwick, Lancs, 67* , 81

Y

Newick(e), Sussex , 180 , 181

Newland , Southwick, Hants., 39

Newlyn, Cornwall, 16*

Newmarshe, West Ham, Essex, 26

Newn(e)ham Murren , Moren, Oxon, 123 , 124*

New Palace Yard, Westminster , liii

Newparke ,? Masham, N.R. Yorks. , 215

Newport, John, gent , rec., 197

Newport, Margaret, wife, rec., 197

Newton, Lancs , 73, 82 ; [by Toft], Toftnewton, Lincs , 88, 89*

Nicholas, John, senior , tenant, 185, 186

Nicholls, George, gent , tenant,27

Nicholson , Christopher, yom., rec , 216

Nicklin; als. of Sadler , Joan

Nobbe, The , Merton, Norf, 104 , 107

Noble, John, gent. , rec. , 93

Noell, Sir Andrew, Knt , commissioner, 130

Nonconformists (Protestant), ix, xxxvi

Norfolk , xxviin, xxx, xxxii, xxxvin , xxxviin, xliv, lvn, lxxv, lxxvin , lxxvii, lxxxn* , lxxxiv , lxxxviiin, c, ciiin, cxiiin ; 99-113 , 119 , 224

Norres, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 84 ; Jane, wid , rec , 84 ; William, husb., rec , 84*

Norrington, Norington, Wilts , 186

Northallerton,Yorks (County Record Office), Ixvn

Northampton , town, Northants, 115

Northamptonshire , xx, xxx, xxxi* , xxxii, lxxxin, lxxxiv, lxxxviiin, ciiin; 113-118

Northdeerparke ,Devon, 20

Northfield [Birmingham], Worcs, 193 , 195

North Riding, Yorks , 210 , 214

North Street , Berks , 2

Northtuddenham , Norf.; see Tuddenham, North

Northumberland , lxix* , lxxn

Norton, Devon, 20

Norton, Anthony, rec , 38* ; George, gent., rec., 111 ; Henry, rec , xli, xlii; 170 ; Henry, gent , rec , 165 ; Katherine, wid , rec , 165 ; Richard, gent , rec., 162, 167* ; Walter, rec , xli, xlii ; 158 ; Walter, esq , rec ., 163* , 164*

Norton in Hales , Salop, 132, 137 ; in the Moors, Staffs , 149 ; St. Philip, Phillipps Norton, Somerset , 142

Norwich, Norf, viiin,xxxii

Nottingham, city, Ivi

Nottinghamshire , lvn, lxxxn* , lxxxiin , lxxxviiin ; 94, 119-120

Nowell, Sir Andrew, Knt , commissioner , 128 , 130

Nucklyn, Nicklin, als of Sadler, Joan

Nutley, Nutlett, Hants, 34* , 36

Ockenden , Joan, spr , rec., 175 , 176 , 178 *

Oblington, Herefords.; see Cublington

Odiham , Odeham , Odyham, Hants, 36, 40*

Offwood, Stephen, husb , rec , 111

Oglethorp(p)e, Elizabeth, wife, rec. , 220 ; Michael, gent , 220 ; Owen , esq., commissioner , 124* ; Robert, 204 ; see Eglesthroppe

Oglet (t), Lancs., 84

Okeford, Richard, yom. , rec , lxxxiiin ; 24

Okeham , Nicholas, lessee , 57 , 58*

Okehampton , Devon, 20

Okeley[Oakeley], Salop. , 135

Old Bailey, London, xxix, xxxvi, lxxxv ; Jewry, ("Jury"), London, 94

Oldberrow , Warwicks.; see Ouldbarrowe

Oldefeild, Le, Garway, Herefs., 43

Oldhall, als. Oldhalls, Great Welnetham, Suff . , 164*

Oliver ; als. of Stone, Thomas

Olyve, Richard , yeoman of the chamber royal, lessee , 171 , 172 , 178* , 179*

Ombersley , Worcs. , 192

Onslowe, Katherine, wid , rec , 122 , 125

Orby, Lincs , 88

Orchard, The, pasture , Mickleton , Gloucs , 32

Orford, Lancs, 65

Ormesby , Norf , 106* ; St. Margaret, Norf, 106

Orrell, Lancs , 59

Osborne, John, esq., Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer , lxiin

Oswestry, Salop , 131

Otterhampton , Somerset , 141

Otterington, South, Otteringham, N.R. Yorks , 206

Ottringham, E.R. Yorks , 202

Ouldbarrowe , Worcs [? Oldberrow , Warwicks ], 197

Outwell, Owtewell, Norf, 110 , 111

Overforde, Warrington, Lancs , 83

Overhall, manor, Stanstead, Suff ., 158

Owen , George , gent , 127 ; Jane, wife, rec , 127 ; Richard, rec , 121

Ower, Owre, Hants, 42

Oxen Close, Great Oxendon, Northants. , 115

Oxendon , Great, Oxenden Magna, Northants , 115

Oxford (city), 126 , 127*

Oxfordshire, lvn, lxxvi, lxxix* , lxxxviiin,xcvin, cxiiin ; 121-128, 134

Oxheys , Thurstaston, Cheshire , 9

Packington, Staffs %; see Pattington

Packyngton , Humphrey, gent, rec. , 196* ; see Pakington

Padstow , Paddistowe , Cornwall, 15

Page, Richard, yom., rec , 180 , 181

Pagett, Charles , yeoman of chamber royal, lessee , 3* , 5* , 35* , 38* , 39* , 40 , 41 , 42n

Pakefield, Packefeild , Suff , 159

Pakington, Humphrey, gent , rec , 132 ; see Packyngton

Palatinates , lxxn, lxxxviiin ,cvi-viii

Palgrave, Thomas , lessee , 134* , 136* , 172* , 178 ; Thomas , gent , lessee , 108**

Palmer, John, rec , 18 , 19* ; Roger, tailor, rec , 196 ; Thomas , gent , rec, 48

Pannyngham ,Norfolk ; see Raveningham

Parbold, Lancs , 68

Parke, le great, Alvechurch, Worcs, 189

Parker, Edmund, yom , 218 ; Eleanor, wife, rec., 218 ; Henry, yom., rec , 168 ; John, lessee , lxxvin ; John, yeoman of the chamber royal, lessee, 55* , 57 , 58* ; Sir Nicholas, Knt. , sheriff of Surrey/Sussex , 170 , 178, 181n ; Thomas, yom, rec , 111

Parkham, Parkeham , Devon, 20, 21*

Parkhouse, Staffs , ciin

Parkins, Francis, esq., rec , lxxxiv , lxxxvn* ; Francis, gent,rec., 3

Parliament, High Court of, xxviin ; House of Commons, xxii* , xxiii, xlvii ; House of Lords, xxii, xxiiin, xlvii ; House of Lords, Record Office, xxiin; Acts of ; see Authorities (printed)

Parr(e), Lancs , 61* , 67*

Parris, Ferdinand, rec , xxx, lxxxiv* ; 108

Parry, John, yom.,rec .,96

INDEX

Parsons, Ann, spr , rec , 195 ; Margaret, wid., rec , 141 ; Robert, S. J. , lxxvin

Pasnipefeild , Garston, Lancs , 79

Patenham (? Pavenham), Beds ,manor , xxxin

Pattington [? Packington], Staffs., 149

Pavenham, Beds.; see Patenham

Paver, Ann, wid , rec. , 209

Pawlett, Lady, wid., rec , 36, 41

Payges, Mapledurham, Oxon , 121

Payne, Clemence, spr , rec , 169

Paynesley, Draycott, Staffs , lxxxvi

Peachie, John, tenant, 129, 130

Pearson, Ann, tenant, 3

Peasemore, Berks, 5

Peasmarsh, Peasemarshe, Sussex, 175* , 176, 177

Peettes Wooddes, Tyrley, Staffs , 136

Peirson, John, lessee , 36*

Pelham , Edmund, esq, commissioner , 175 , 176, 177 ; Thomas , esq ., sheriffofSurrey/Sussex , 177*

Pellawyn , Cornwall, 15

Pemberton, Lancs , 58, 63, 82*

Pemberton , Ellen, spr-wife, rec , 82; James, gent., 63; Richard, gent , 82

Pembridge, Anthony, lessee , 46* , 47, 48*

Pembrokeshire , cviii, cxin ; 224*

Pendine, Pendyne, Carmarthens, 224

Pendleton , John, husb , rec , 84

Pendock, Worcs, 191

Pendomer, Somerset, 143

Penkridge , Pemkriche, Staffs , 151*

Penne, Edward, gent , 126 ; Eleanor, spr., rec , 127 ; John, gent. , rec., 127 ; Margaret, wife, rec., 195 ; Mary, wife, rec , 126 ; Roger, gent, 195

Penruddock(e), Robert, lessee, 185* , 186*

Penselwood, Somerset , 140

Peper, Alice, spr., rec. , 82

Pepper, John, lessee, 206, 207 ; John, gent., lessee , 210* , 212

Perham, Elizabeth, wife, rec., 140 ; John, gent, 140

Peterchurch(e), Herefs, 44

Petersfield , Hants, 39 , 40

Petherton , North, Somerset , 141

Pettytt, Robert, tenant, 24

Pettyver, Robert, yom., rec., 115

Pevensey, Sussex, 181

Peverelles [manor], Norf , 100, 103

Peyrd, Anthony,fuller,rec , 142

Peyton, John, esq , sheriff of Cambs , 7,9

Phelphes [ ], rec , lvin

Philbie, Alice, wid , rec , 127

Philip and Mary, reignof, lvi*

Philippe , Elizabeth, spr , rec , 98 ; Elizabeth, wid., rec , 97 ; William, yom. , rec , 215

Phillip(p)(e)s , Thomas , lessee , 128* ; Thomas, gent , lessee , 129 , 130, 130n ; Thomas, gent , tenant, 130*

Pickenham , North, Northepikenham, Norf , 101

Pickeringe, Anthony, yom. , rec , 57, 60* ; Thomas, gent , rec , 184

Pidstowe , Clifford, Herefs. , 45

Pigott, Thomas, esq , lessee, 132 , 133

Pilcher, Agnes, rec , 171 , 178

Pilton, Pylton, Rutland, 128 , 130*

Pingo Meadow , Garston, Lancs , 79

Pipe and Lyde, Pype, Herefs , 49*

Pirton, Worcs., 191

Pishill, Purshull, Oxon , 122 ; als ofStonor, Oxon

Pittleworth, Broughton, Hants, 38

Plant, Joan, wife, rec , 152 ; Thomas , lab , 152

Plas Ucha, Salop , 131 , 137

Playden, Playdon, Sussex , 175 , 176

Pleasington , Plesington , Plesyngton, Lancs , 56 , 57* , 69, 80

Pleistowe , Pleystowe, Queenhill, Worcs., 190, 192

Plowden, Salop, 134

Plowden, "Edward , " rec., XXVN ; Francis, rec , xxvn* , cn ; Francis, gent , rec , 3, 4, 134

Plumpton, Plompton, Lancs , 76 , 77 Plympton,

Plympton St. Mary, Plumpton Marie, Devon, 22

Poker, Matilda, wife, rec., 155 ; William, xxxixn ; 155 ; William , supposed rec and fugitive, 147

Polglase, Cornwall, 15

Pollington, W.R. Yorks , 217

Pontefract, Pountfrett, W.R. Yorks , 205

Poole, meadow , Sutton Courtenay , Berks , 2 ; le newe, Alvechurch, Worcs, 189

Poole, Sir Henry, Knt , sheriff of Gloucs., 31 , 33n

Popham, John, Attorney General, xviii

Porter, Thomas , rec , 32

Porters ,?Caston, Norf , 106

Potterford, Pottersford, Billington, Lancs. , 70, 71

Potto(e), Potta, N.R. Yorks , 204, 210, 215

Poulton, Pulton, Lancs , 58, 61 , 77 ; Little, Pulton, Lancs , 10 , 55

Pountney Hall, als Lancasters , als Warkes, manor, Suff. , 163

Powell, Margaret, wife, rec , 49 ; Mary, spr , rec , 96, 97 ; Richard, gent. , rec ., 49* ; Robert, esq , sheriffof Salop, 131 , 136 , 138n

Powle, John, yom.,rec , 111

Pownde, Thomas, gent , rec , 174, 179

Poyntes, Sir John, Knt., sheriff of Gloucs, 33

Poyntington , Grace, wife, rec , 142 ; Ralph, husb'n, 142

Prater, ], wife, rec , 140 ; George, gent, 140 Precisians , ix

Preest, Thomas, yom., rec , 45, 48 ; see Price, Thomas

Preignishe , Joan, wid , rec ,41

Prenton , Printon, Cheshire , 10 ,54

Presbytery (Puritan), ixn

Prescot , Prestcotte , Lancs , 63, 83

Prespinneck, Cornwall ; ; see Prospidnick

Preston , John, rec , 136* ; John, gent., rec ., 131 , 134

Preston , Lancs , 56, 69, 76, 78 ; in Amondernes , Lancs, 76 ; in Amondernes, Co. Pal , Duchy of Lancaster , 56 ; Candover, Hants , 34, 36* ; Gubbals , Gubbolles, Salop., 137

Prettye, Joan, wife, rec , 198 ; John, 198

Price, Pryce, Ann, spr , rec , lvin ;49 ; Edward, husb , rec , 49* ; Edward, yom., rec. , 49* ; Griffin , lessee , 131 , 132, 136 ; John, esq. , commissioner, 224 ; Katherine, wife, rec . , 49* ; Thomas, rec., 45 ; Thomas, yom , rec , 47, 48 ; see Preest, Thomas

Priests , Catholic, xxxvii* ,cxi; (Marian), xxxviin ; (Seminary), xxxviin,xciiin; see Clerks

Printon, Cheshire; see Prenton

Prior's Kitchen, Durham, lxxiiin

Prisoners, xviiin, xxin* , xxviiin, xxxvi, xxxviin , lxxxixn

Priston , Somerset, 141*

Privy Council , xv,xvin,xx*

Privy Seal, Lord, li

Procter, Alice, wid , rec , 200, 212 ; John, 200 ; Thomas, 200

Prospidnick, Prespinneck , Cornwall, 15

Protectorate, 222n ; see Interregnum

Pryce ; see Price

Public Record Office, London, vii, xin, xxix* ,lxvn, civn, cv, cix ; 42n

Pudding Norton, Norf , xxviin , xxx

Pudsey, W.R. Yorks ., 202

Pudsey, Elizabeth, wid , rec , 202 , 213

Pulton, Lancs.; see Poulton

Purbeck, Isleof, Dorset, 23

Pursall, Purcell, John, esq , lessee , lxxxviin ; Thomas, gent., lessee, 2 , 3,5*

Pursuivants ,xvin

Putford Hill, Runwell, Essex, 29

Pyecombe, Sussex , 181

Pyncke, als ofSutton , John

Pynnynge, Daniel, blacksmith, rec., 196

Quarter Sessions of the Peace , xvii*

Queen Camel, Quene Camell, Somerset , 140

Queenhill , Quinnell, Worcs., 192

Quested, Alice, spr , rec , 180, 181 ; see Anested

Quid(d)enham, Banham , Norf, 103

Radcliff(e), Radclyff, Katherine, rec., 207 ; Katherine, spr , rec , 205, 207, 208, 212* , 215 ; see Ratcliffe

Radnor, Co.,cviiin

Radwinter , Radbenter , Essex ,28

Raglan, Mon., 96

Raisbeck , Racebeck, Westmld , 183

Rande (? Raude), Katherine, wife, rec , 127 ; Nicholas, yom., rec , 127

Ratchdaile , Henry, husb , rec , 83

Ratcliffe, Katherine, spr , rec., 215; see Radcliffe

Raude ; see Rande

Raveningham, Pannyngham , Norfolk, 224

Rawley, Henry, rec , 46*

Rawreth, Essex, 28

Raws, Francis, husb , rec , 67

Rawson, Ann, wid , rec. , 217, 218* ; William, yom. , rec , 217

Rayleigh , Rawleighe , Essex , 28*

Read , Elizabeth, spr , rec , 220; Thomas , esq., lessee , 121 * , 128n

Receivers (palatine), cvii*, cviii; (sheriffs'), lxvn ; General (N. andS. Wales), cix*

Recusants , passim "Fugitive, " xxxixn ; 146-7* ; Non-Catholic , xxxvi-vii ; "Popish, " ix* , xin, xxxvii ; "Supposed," xxxixn ; 147*

Redhead, Edward, lessee, 46* , 48 ; Robert, lessee , 217

INDEX

Redling (e)field, Suff, 157 , 168

Redman, Margery, spr , rec., 219 ; Marmaduke, esq ., rec , 219* ;

Thomas , gent , rec , 219 ; Welstroppe , Wilstropp, gent , rec , 216*

Reedness, Rednes, Whitgift, W.R. Yorks , 202

Remembrancers ; see Exchequer

Repps, Norf., 106

Reston in Holderness, E.R. Yorks ; see Riston, Long

Reynes, Nicholas, rec , 119 , 120*

Reynold , James, Thomas , rec., 95

Reynoldes, Mary, wife, rec , 195 ;

Richard, wheeler, rec., 198 ; Richard, yom , rec , 195

Rice, William, "saler , " rec , 85

Richard, Elizabeth, wid , rec , 98

Richard, ap, Thomas, rec ., 134 ; Thomas , lab , rec , 137

Richardes, verch, Ellen, spr. , rec. , 137

Richardson, Henry, husb , rec , 77*

Richmond , Richemonde , N.R. Yorks 214

Riddyard, Jane, spr , rec , 150

Ridgeway, Thomas, esq., sheriff of Devon, 20

Rigbye , Edward, esq., commissioner , 59, 60* ; Margaret, wife, rec , 198; William, gent, 198

Ringstead , Ringsted , Northants. , 114*

Ringwood , Christiana, spr , rec , 180

Ripes, Le, Peasmarsh, Sussex , 176

Ripley, W.R. Yorks , 216 , 219

Riplingham , E.R. Yorks , 203

Ripple , Rypple, Worcs , 192, 196

Risden, Giles, gent , rec , 21

Riston Long, Reston, in Holderness , E.R. Yorks , 204* , 209, 213

Rivers , Anthony,lxxvin

Rixton, Warrington, Lancs , 55* , 83

Roall, W.R. Yorks., 204*

Robertes , William, yom., rec , 150

Robertson , John , rec , cn ; gent., rec., 94*

Rocester, Roceter, Staffs. , 149

John,

Rockingham , Rockyngham, Northants , 116, 117, 118n*

Rockland [? St. Mary], Norf., 106

Rode, Roade , Somerset , 142

Rodwell ; see Rothwell

Roe, Bridget, spinster , xxxvn ; Bridget, wife,rec., xxxvn ; 22 ; Christopher, gent, 22

Rokeby , Rookeby, N.R. Yorks. , 199

Rolff(e), Ann, spr. , rec , 169 ;Thomas , xliiin*

Rolles, Robert, gent , commissioner , 21 , 22

Rollesby, Rolesbye, Norf, 106

Rolston , Christopher, yom., lxxxiin ; 17* ; see Rowleston

Romden, Smarden , Kent ,lxxxv

Rookeby , John, esq , rec ., 263 rec , 199 ; Ralph, esq , commissioner , 205, 207 ; Robert, commissioner , 206

Rookesby, Robert , commissioner , 210

Rook(e)wood , Edward, rec , xxx , lxxxiv* ; Edward, esq , rec. , 166 ; John, gent , rec , 162, 167*; Nicholas, gent , rec , 169* ; Robert, esq., rec., 159

Rooper, Christopher, esq , 49 ; Katherine, wife, rec., 49

Roper, William, xln ; William, esq , rec , lxxxiv, lxxxvn

Rosecarrock (e), Nicholas, gent., rec , 20, 22 ; Trevenor, rec , 15, 17

Rossington, Derbys.; als of Roston

Roston, als Rossington , Derbys, 17

Rothercombe, Hants. , 38

Rotheridge, Devon, 20

Rothwell , Rodwell, W.R. Yorks , 218

Roughe Close, Runwell, Essex, 29

Roughfeilde, Salesbury, Lancs , 54

Rous, Anthony, commissioner , 15, 17

Rowington , Warwicks , 182

Rowlandson, Ann, wid. , rec, 83

Rowleston, John, yom., rec , 110 ; see Rolston

Rowley, Joyce, wid., rec., 149

Rowse, Ann, rec., 158

Roydon, Edward, gent , rec , 115 , 117

Royston, W.R. Yorks , 217

Royston , Edward, gent. , rec , 205, 212*

Rudby [in Cleveland], Rudbie, Rudbye, N.R. Yorks , 204 , 210

Rudhall, William, esq., sheriff of Herefs , 44, 47

Runwell , Essex, 28 ; manor, 28

Rushton, Rusheton , Northants , xx, xxx ; 116, 117 , 118n

Russell, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 49 ; John, gent , 49

Rutland, lxxxi* , lxxxiiin* , lxxxviiin ; 128-130 ; Earl of, xxii, xxiiin*

Ryder, Margaret, wife, rec , 150 ; Simon, yom , rec., 150*

Ryehey, Garston, Lancs . , 79

Ryland , William, tenant, 36

Ryley, Alice, wife, rec , 155 ; Edward, 155

Ryngsted, David, yom., rec , 180

Ryver, manor, Playden , Sussex, 175, 176

Sackford, Humphrey, esq., lessee , 102* , 109*

Sadler, Alice, wid , rec , 84 ; als. Nucklyn, Nicklin, Joan, spr. , rec. , 150, 151

St.Andrew , parish, Holborn, London , lxxxvn ; 93

St. Botolph , parish, London, 94

St. Breock , Cornwall, 21

St. Bridget, parish, London, 94

St. Chad, parish,Stafford, 152

St. Cleder, Cornwall ; see St. Clether

St. Clement Danes, parish, Middx , 20

St. Clether, St. Cleder, Cornwall, 16

St. Decuman's, St. Deacons , Somerset, 138*

St. Dunstan in the West, parish, London, lxxXVN

St. Erme , St. Terme, Cornwall, 16*

St. Eval, Cornwall ; see St. Evattes

St. Evattes (? St. Eval), Cornwall, 16

St. James, parish, Bury St. Edmunds , Suff . , 169

St. John, Frances, wid , rec , 107 , 109

St. John Zachary, parish, London, 93

St. Margaret's Street, Westminster , liiin

St. Martin , Cornwall, 14

St. Mary, parish, Oxford, 127 ; parish, Stafford, 149, 152, 153 ; Magdalen , parish, Oxford, 127* ; Overies, parish, Southwark, Surrey, xxin ; 179 ; Woolnoth, Wollnothe, parish, London, 93

St. Merryn, St. Meryn, Cornwall, 16

St. Michael, parish, Oxford, 126

St. Nicholas, parish, nr Richmond, N.R. Yorks , 214

St. Olave, parish, Aldersgate Ward, London, 94 ; Hart Street, parish, London, 93 ; in Old Jewry, parish, London, 94

St. Poll, Sir George, Knt , commissioner, 89

St. Sepulchre, parish, London, xxxvi; 94

St. Teath , Tethe, Cornwall, 21

St. Terme, Cornwall ; see St. Erme

St. Weonards, St. Wenyardes , Herefs , 43

Salesbury , Salebury , Salisbury , Lancs., 54* , 70* , 71

Salisbury , diocese of, xciii

Salisbury, John ; see Salysbury

Sale , Margaret, wife, rec., 217 ; Thomas, 217

Salford, Lancs , gaol, xviiin

Salle, Roger, yom , rec , 83

Salop .; see Shropshire

Salter, Thomas, commissioner , 136*

Salvyn , Dorothy, wife, rec , 214 ; Ralph, esq ,214

Salysbury , Salisbury, John, one ofthe Queen's servants, lessee , 174* , 178

Samlesbury , Lancs , xxxi

Sampford , Great, Essex , 24

Sandal(1), W.R. Yorks , 218

Sandborough, Sandbor (r)owe, Staffs , (M.P.), ixn ; 145*

Sandes , Sands, Michael, esq., sheriff of Kent, 51 ; Sir Walter, Knt , sheriff of Hants , 40

Sandford Orcas, Sampford Orcas , Somerset, 143

Sandholme Milne, Barnacre , Lancs, 60

Sankey, Great, Sonkey, Warrington, Lancs , 55

Saunders, Erasmus, rec., cixn ; 224 ; Erasmus , gent , rec , 224

Saunderson, Nicholas, esq , sheriff of Lincs , 90, 91

Savage, Sir John, Knt , commissioner , 11

Savile, John,esq , commissioner , 177*; John, gent , commissioner , 203 ; Mary, rec., 200

Sawden, William, yom., rec., 215

Saxton, W.R. Yorks , 220

Sayer, John, rec., xliv, lxxxiv ; John, esq , rec , 211 , 215

Sayward , Christopher, rec , 141

Scalles, Scales, Lancaster , Lancs , 82

Scamell, Walter , lessee , 188

Scanmell , Edward, yom , rec., 188

Scory, John, bishop of Hereford, xin

Scott(e), Mary, spr, rec , 175* , 176, 177, 178

Scottow , Skottowe, Norf, 111

Scroope, Scrope, Christopher, gent, rec , 216 ; Margaret, wid , rec , 206, 210* , 216 ; Robert, gent. , 208

Scruton, N.R.Yorks., 207

Scudamore, Scuadamore , John, esq., rec ., 43* , 47* , 50n* ; Margaret, 43* , 50n ; Thomas , 43* , 50n* ; Thomas , gent. , rec , Skidmore 46; see

Seaborne, John, esq , rec , 48* ; John, gent., rec., 44

Seale, Robert, yeoman of the ushers of the chamber royal, lessee , 20 , 21* , 22, 26*

Seaton, Rutland, 128, 130*

Sebright , William, esq , lessee, 132*

Sedbury, N.R.Yorks , 214

INDEX

Sefton, Seaffton , Seston, Sypton, Lancs., 65* , 66* , 78, 80, 85

Selby, W.R. Yorks , 213 , 222n

Seller, Humphrey, husb'n, rec., 141 ; Robert, husb'n, 141 ; Robert, son , rec., 141 ; Thomas, husb'n, rec , 141 ; als. of Grove, Humphrey, Robert

Semley, Semleighe, Semblye, Wilts , 186, 188

Separatists, xxxvi-vii

Serjaunt[ ], gent , rec , 152

Sessions of the Peace, xxiii, xxvn* , xcviii

Seston, Lancs ; see Sefton

Severn, river, Worcs, 190

Sewell, John, yom., rec., 167

Seymor, Sir John, Knt , sheriff of Hants., xcvn

ShacklockHall, Durham city, 208

Sharleston , W.R. Yorks , 205, 218

Sharrock Hey, Shirrocke, Shorrocke, Pleasington , Lancs , 56* , 57* , 69, 80

Sheen, Shene, Staffs . , 150

Sheepwash, Shipwash , Devon, 20

Sheffield, Sheffeld, W.R. Yorks , 202 , 217

Sheffeild, Thomas , lessee , 6* , 7

Sheldon, Jane, wid., rec., 198 ; Mary, wife, rec ., 198 ; Thomas , gent, 198

Shelford, Great , Cambs , 8

Shelley, John, gent. , rec. , 187

Shelton, John, esq , lessee , 105* , 113n

Shemans , Joan, wife, rec , 150 ; John, yom , 150

Shepcotefeild, Garston, Lancs , 79

Shepley, Elizabeth, spr. , rec , 83 ; Hugh, yom , rec , 62, 63*

Sheppherd, Sheppard , Alice, wife, rec., 150 ; Mary, wife, rec., 142 ; Philip, clothier, 142 ; William, 150

Shepton Mo(u)ntague, Somerset, 140

Sherburn , Shereborne , W.R. Yorks , 218

Sherman, Anthony, gent., 167 ; Mary, wife, rec., 167

Sheriffs, xin, xxxix, xln, xlviii* , xlix-li, lii-vi, lix-lxxi, lxxv, lxxx* , lxxxii-iv , lxxxvi-xcvi, xcix* , c, civ* , cviin* , cviii* , cxi ; and passim in Text ; (palatine), lxxn, cvi-cviii ; 12 , 13 , 69, 80, 86n ; (Wales), lxxn , cviii-ix

Sherrott , als Lymer, Margery, spr , rec , 153

Shipdham , Shipdam, Norf, 106

Shiplake , Oxon, 134

Shipwash, Devon ; see Sheepwash

Sherwood , Henry, groom, rec., 140

Shinfield , Berks , 2

Shingham , Singham, Norf , 100

Shire Houses, lxv 265

Shirenewton , "Nova Villa, " Mon., 97

ShorrockHey ; see SharrockHey

Shorthampton , Oxon., 127

Showsewell, Ann, spr , rec , 181

Shrewsbury, Salop , 133 , 135

Shropshire , Salop, xxvn, xlvii, lvn, lxxxn*,lxxxi, lxxxiiin, lxxxviiin, cn , ci* , ciin, ciiin, civn; 4* , 131-138, 147

Sibton, Sypton, Suff , late monastery of, 165*

Siddenham, John, esq , 143

Silyard, [ ], viiin ; see Sulliard

Simondes, Symondes, Grace, spr , rec., 151 ; John, draper, rec , 151 ; John, lessee , 124* , 125*

Singleton , Singleten , Syngleton , George, rec , 80 ; George, husb , rec , 74* , 77* ; Mary, spr -wife, rec , 82 ; Robert, lessee , 57* , 69, 70, 80* ; Thomas , esq., 82

Sisson, James, lessee , 215

Skeeby, Skeby, N.R. Yorks , 206

Skelton , [N.R.]Yorks. , 215

Skenfrith(e), Scurfrithe, Mon., 95, 98

Skidmore, Simon, yom , rec , 94 ; see Scudamore

Smarden, Kent , lxxxv

Smith(e), Ann, wife, rec , 127 , 214 ; Dorothy, spr , rec , 150 ; John, husb'n, rec , 168 ; John, yom , 196; John, yom. , rec., 195* , 196, 197* ; Margaret, spr, rec., 194 ; Margaret, wife, rec., 196 , 197 ; Richard, tenant, 19* ; Richard, yom., 214 ; Robert, yom., 127 ; Robert, yom., rec., 195 ; Thomas , husb., rec., 195; William , laborer, rec , 126 ; als of Courte, Edmund ; see Smyth(e)

Smyth(e), [ ], wid , rec , 152 ; Christopher, Clerk of the Pipe, liv, lx ; Edward, lessee, 123* , 124* ; Edward, tenant, 129 , 130 ; Elizabeth, spr , rec , 195 ; Elizabeth , wife, rec , 195* ; Humphrey, husb , rec , 195* , 199n; Joan, spr , rec , 195 ; Joan, wid., tenant, 26 ; Margaret, spr , rec , 152 ; Ralph, lessee, 123* , 124*; Ralph, gent. , lessee , 2* , 5* , 25* , 26 ; Roger, esq , sheriff of Rutland, 129* ; see

Smith(e)

Smythes Hill, Devon, 20

Smytheson, John, yom., rec , 206, 212

Snaith, Snaythe, W.R. Yorks , 203

Snave, Snabe, Kent , 51

Snowe, Joan, spr. ,rec , 152

Snowswick , Snosewick , Berks, 2

Somersetshire , lvn, lvin, lxxxviiin , lxxxixn, c* , cii* ; 23, 94 , 138-143

Somerset(t), Somers' , Thomas, rec. , 31*,95

Somerton , Oxon , 127

Sonkey, Ann, wid , rec , 55 , 60

Sorapes Hill, Tong, Kent, 51

Sotherne , John, gent , lessee , 209 ; John, lab., rec., 150

208* ,

Sotherton , Southerton, John, Baron of the Exchequer , xvii*, lviiin ; Noel, Clerk of Estreats, lviiin, lixn* , Ixi ; Noel, esq , lessee, 123*

Sotheworth; see Southworth

Southam , Souham , als. Hamworthy, Dorset, 38

Southcott(e), Southcote , John, gent , rec , lxin, lxxxiv , xcixn

Southerton ; see Sotherton

South Moreton, Berks , 4

Southvegin, Westmld , 183

Southwark(e), Surrey, xxin ; 40, 179

Southwick, Hants , 39

Southworth, Sotheworth, Sir John, Knt , rec , xvi-xx, xxxi* ; 69*; Thomas, gent., rec., 63 ; William , yom. , rec., 75* , 77* , 81

Sowerby(e), N.R.Yorks , 215

Sparkes , Katherine, spr , rec , 194

Sparsholte , Berks, lxxi ; 4, 5

Speke, Speake, Lancs. , 84

Spencer, John, senior, husb , rec , 122, 125* ; Sir John, Knt , commissioner , 114 ; Sir John, Knt , sheriff of Northants , 116, 117* , 118n*

Spexhall , Suff ., 163

Spilman , Spylman, Clement, esq , lessee, 119 * , 120*

Springe wood, le, Kexborough, Yorks. , 200

Spurstowe, Bunbury, Cheshire , 12*

Stableford; see Stapleford

Stafford, city, 149, 152* , 153*

Stafford, Edward, Clerk of the Pipe, lin; Sir Edward, Clerk of the Pipe, Ixin ; William, lab , rec., 152

Staffordshire , xxxviin, xxxixn , lvn, lxxxn* , lxxxiiin, lxxxvi* , lxxxviiin, xcv, ciin* , ciiin, cx, cxiiin ; 131 , 132, 136, 143-157

Stainley, North, Kirkestanley, W.R. Yorks. , 219

Stainton, Staynton, N.R. Yorks. , 206, 210

Staithes, Staythes, N.R. Yorks , 215

Standish(e), Lancs , 85

Standley, Bridget, wife, rec , 82 ; Edward, gent , 82

Standon, Staunden ,Staffs. , 154

Standyshe, Ann, spr-wife, rec , 81* ; Ralph, gent , 81

Stanford, Notts , 119* , 120 ; Bishop, Stanford Episcopi, Herefs , 44

Stanhope, Sir John, lxxvi

Stanhoppe, Edward, esq , commissioner, 119* , 120*

Stanlake , Oxon. , 122*

Stanley, Ann, wid., rec., 64 ; Henry, gent , commissioner , 120

Stanningfield , Staningfeld , Stanfield, Suff . , 159 , 164* , 169

Stanstead, Stansted, Suff, 158

Stapleford, Stableford, Cambs , 8

Stapleton , Elizabeth, wife, rec , 217 ; George, gent , 152 ; Isabel , wid, rec . , 152 ; Isabel , wife, rec , 152 ; Joyce, spr., rec ., 154 ; Margaret, wife, rec , 152 ; Richard, gent , 217 ; William , gent , rec , 152*

Stapps, Advent, Cornwall, 16

Star Chamber , Westminster, Court of, xvii

Starkye, Francis, tenant, 19*

Staunton , Gloucs. , 31 , 33 , 191

Stawley, Somerset, 139

Steere, Steare, Stere, George, husb'n, 140 ; Margaret, wife, rec , 140 ; Robert, rec , 139, 141 ; William, lessee, 201 * , 202, 212* , 213*

Stephenson, William, yom., rec., 217

Stevenson, Robert, gent , rec , 203 ; William , gent , rec , 202

Steward , Alice, spr , rec , 110

Stile, William , gent , lessee , 34 , 35*

Stillingflette, Cuthbert, usher of the chamberroyal, lessee , 208, 212

Stockman , John, gent., lessee, 34*

Stockport, Cheshire , 11

Stockton, Jane, wid , rec. , 215

Stockwith(e), Benjamin, gent , rec , 37, 40, 41 ; Thomas, gent., rec., 37, 40, 41

Stogursey, Somerset, 141

Stoke, Peter, yom.,rec , 85

Stoke-by-Nayland, Naylond, Suff. , 8 , 27, 168 ; Gabriel, Devon, 22 ; Priors, Worcs , 195, 197, 198 ; Talmage, Oxon, 127

Stonard, Francis, esq , sheriffofOxon, xcvin ; 121 , 125 ; see Stonor

Stone, Staffs , 154

Stone, Edward, lessee , 186, 187 ; Katherine, rec., 27*; als Oliver, Thomas, rec., 158, 167* ; als of Bolte, Joan

Stoneham , South , Hants., 41

INDEX

Southstonham ,

Stoney Pighell [Blackburn], Lancs , 54

Stonley, Richard, teller in the Exchequer, lxvn

Stonner, Joan, rec. , 153

Stonor , als. Pishill, Oxon , 122

Stonor, Lady Cecily, wid., rec., 122 ; Francis, esq. , lessee, 122, 125 ; see Stonard

Stowe, Stoue, Staffs , 149, 153, 154

Stowe, Thomas , lessee , 158 , 159*

Stowey, Nether, Somerset, 141

Straker, John, lessee , lxxxix, xciii ; 138* , 139

Strakes , Le, Peasmarsh, Sussex, 177

Strangewishe, Mary, wife, rec , 215 ; William , gent., 215

Stratfield Mortimer , Berks , 3 Mortymer,

Stratton, Long, Norf , 101 , 107*

Streete, Edward, lessee , 121 , 122 , 125 ; John, yom. , rec., 13

Stretford, farm, Herefs , 45, 50n

Strethall, Essex, 26

Strode, William, esq., sheriffofDevon , 19,22

Stubbes, Ann, wife, rec., 111 ; Francis, gent ., 111

Sturson (? Sturston), Derbys., 18

Sudbury (e), Suff., 166

Suffeyld, William,tenant , 192

Suffild, Nicholas, yom , rec , 110*

Suffolk, xxviin, xxx, xxxviiin, xli, xlii, xliiin* , xlvn, lvn, lxxv, lxxvin* , lxxix, lxxxn, lxxxiv, lxxxvn , lxxxviiin, ciin, cxiiin; 8, 25, 27* , 28, 157-170

Sulhamptead Abbot(s), Berks , 3 ; Banister , als . Micheles , Berks ,3

Sulliard, Sullyard, Silyard, Edward, rec., xxx, lxxxiv ; Edward, esq , rec , 166 ; Richard, gent , rec , 168

Surrey, 40, 175, 179 , 180*

Surrey/Sussex , sheriffwick, xxin* , xxxviin, lv , lxviiin, lxxxn, lxxxi, lxxxiiin, lxxxiv , lxxxviiin, ciin, ciiin, cxiiin; 170-181

Sussex , xxx ; 170-177 , 179-181, 187 ; East, 174

Suttill, George, gent., rec , 219

Sutton, Elizabeth, wife, rec., 197 ; John, 197 ; als. Pyncke, John, yom., rec ., 150

Sutton Courtenay , Courtney, Berks , lxxi ; 2, 4 ; Michael, Herefords, 48

Swallowes, Cyprian, tenant, 163

Swan(n)(e), Margaret, wid , tenant, 129, 130 ; Roland, tenant, 129 , 130

Swanton Novers,Norf, 110

Swarraton , Swarrowton, Swallowton, manor, Hants , 34

Sweeney, Swynney,Salop, 131

Swifte, Alice, wife, rec., 198 ; Simon, yom., 198

Swinefleet , Swynflete , Whitgift, W.R. Yorks , 202, 217

Swinton , N.R. Yorks , 216

Swynford Regis, Staffs.; see Kingswinford

Swynnerton , Staffs , 132 , 147 , 153

Syleham, Suff, 168

Sylvester , Margaret, rec ., xxin

Symes, William , yom , rec , 24

Symondes ; see Simondes, John

Syngleton ; see Singleton

Tadford, Hants, 38

Tailor ; als of Averell, William ; see Taylor

Talbott, Ann, spr.-wife, rec. , 82 ; George, gent , 82 ; John, rec., xliii, lxxxiv ; 70* %; John, esq., rec , 192 ; John, rec (Martyr), cxin ; John, gent., rec. [Martyr], 206 ; Richard, gent , rec , 215 ; Roger, 206

Talkett, Edmund, rec , 169

Tamworth, Staffs , 150 , 151

Tanckard, James, junior, gent., rec ., 219 ; Jane, wife, rec., 219 ; Thomas , gent., rec., 216 ; William, gent , 219

Tanworth(e), Tamworthe, Warwicks, 182*

Taplow(e), Bucks., 6

Tarbock , Tarboote, Torbocke, Lancs , 61*

Tarleton, Edward, gent , rec , 79*

Tarrant Hinton, Hynton, Dorset, 23

Tasburgh, Thomas , esq , tenant, 7

Tatham , Lancs., 80*

Taunton , Somerset, 141

Tawton, South, Southtowton, Devon, 21* , 22*

Taylor, Tailor , Tayler, Ann, spr , wife, rec ., 96 ; Howell, 96 ; Isabel, wid ., rec ., 215 ; Robert, teller in Exchequer, lixn, lxn, lxin, lxiin ; William, tenant, 106* ; William, yom., rec ., 106 , 109 , 110 ; als.

Joice, [ ], wife, rec , Henry, husb'n, rec., 142

142 ;

Tedenham ; als Tednam , Gloucs , 31

Teffont, Tevante , Wilts, 188

Tempest, Henry, esq , 220 ; Henry, gent , rec., 220 ; Isabel, wife, rec., 220 ; Katherine, wife, rec , 220; Stephen, gent , 220

Temple, Licia, spr , rec , 180

Tenby, Temby, Pembrokes , 224

Tenent ; als. of Huntman, Ambrose

Termehill, Drayton, Salop, 133

Terryll, Margaret, spr , rec , xcixn, cv ; 30*

Testerton, Norf. , 110

Teynham, Tenham , Kent, 51 , 52

Thacker , Ralph, husb'n, rec , 139

Thakeham , Thackham, Sussex, 171

Thaxsted (e), Essex, 28* , 29

Thimbleby , Edward, gent , rec., 90 ; see Thymolby

Thissleton, John, yom , rec , 64*

Thomas [surname omitted], lab , rec , 152

Thomas , "Didvilla, " spr , rec , 97 ; John, lessee , 38* ; John, merchant, 98 ; Katherine, spr , rec., 97 ; Katherine, spr.-wife, rec , 98* ;

Lettice, spr , rec , 98 ; Mary, spr , rec , 98 ; Maud, spr -wife, rec., 96 ; Morgan, rec , cixn ; Philip William , 98 ; Roger, 98 ; Robert, junior, yom, rec , 223 ; Sibyl, spr, rec , 97 ; William , yom.,rec , 223

Thomas, ap, Joan, wife, rec., 137 ; Meredith, lab , rec , 137 ; William, husb , rec ., 49

Thompson, Thomson, Norf , 102 , 104

Thong [Shorne], Tonge, Kent, 52

Thornage, Norfolk , xxxvin

Thorne St. Margaret, St. Margettes, Somerset, 139 , 140

Thornebury , [ ], wife, rec , 153 ; Francis, yom , rec , 153 ; William, yom., rec ., 180

Thorne, Edward, lessee , 144 , 145* , 148* , 156n*

Thorner , W.R. Yorks , 219 , 220

Thorn(e)ton, Cheshire , 10 ; Lancs , 59, 76* ; W.R. Yorks , 202, 214, 219; -le-Street, N.R. Yorks , 215 ; Steward, N.R. Yorks , 210

Thorney, Henry, gent , rec , 216; Thomas , lessee, 204* , 221n

Thornham Magna, Great Thorneham, Suff . , 163 ; Parva, Little Thorneham , Suff ., 163

Thorpe, nr Kettleby, Lincs. , 91* ; by Water, Rutland, 128, 130 ; next Norwich, Norf, 111 ; -on-theHill, Rothwell, W.R. Yorks , 218 ; Thewles, Co. Durham, 211*

Thrapston , Northants , 115, 116 , 118n

Throckmorton , Lady Margaret, rec ., 26,27

Throgmorton , Hugh, gent , rec , 194 ; Lady Margery, rec., 27 ; Thomas , esq ., rec ., xliii, lxxxiv , lxxxv , lxxxvi; 7 ; Sir Thomas, Knt. , commissioner , 32

Throwgood , Geoffrey, gent , rec ,93

Thundersley, Essex, 29

Thurgare , Agnes, wid , rec , 8, 9

Thurstaston , Cheshire , 9, 11

Thymolby, John, rec., lxxvin, 89 ; John, gent , rec , 89 ; see Thimbleby

Thynne, Francis, gent, lessee, 30, 31* , 33n ; John, esq., sheriff of Wilts, xc-xcii ; 184, 187 , 188n

Tibberton , Salop , cin

Ticheborne, Gilbert, gent , xiii ; 37

Tidworth(e), Wilts. , 184

Tildesley, Thomas , esq , commissioner , 59

Tilehurst, Berks , 2

Tilney, Norf , 104

Tilston, Tylston, Cheshire, 11 , 12

Timberscombe, Tymberscombe , Somerset, 139 , 141

Timperley, Nicholas, rec , xxxviiin , xln ; see Tymperley

Tipton, Typton, Staffs, 152

Tirwhitt(e), Elizabeth, wid , rec , 90* , 91 * , 92, 92n ; Sir Robert, Knt , 90*; William, esq. , 90, 91* , 92n

Tisbury(e), Tysburye, Wilts. , 188*

Toftnewton, Lincs.; see Newton [-by Toft]

Tofts, West, Westofts, Norf , lxxvin ; 102, 105, 106 , 119

Toftwood , Christopher, gent , rec., 161

Tolcarne, Mawganin Pyder, Cornwall, 15

Tomlinson , Elizabeth, spr , rec , 151

Tompkins , Richard, esq , commissioner , 45

Tompson , Andrew, yom., rec , 110 ; Robert, yom. , rec , 111

Tong, Tonge, Kent, 51 , 52; Salop, 136, 138 ; Norton, Salop , 134

Tonmawr , Michaelston-on-Avon, Glam., 223

Toot Baldon, Totbalden, Oxon. , 122 , 125

Toppesfield , manor, Essex , 27

Torbocke ; see Tarbock

Torrell, Frances, wid , rec , 8,9

Torrington, Great, Devon, 20 ; Little, Devon, 20 ; als Torrington Tadpoole (manor), Devon, 20

Totford, Hants. , 37

Totterhill, Salop, 134

INDEX

Towneley, Lancs ., xxxn

Towneley, John, rec. , xxx* , xxxin , lxxxiv ; John, esq., rec ., xxxn , xxxin ; 79 ; Sarah, spr., rec , 66

Townesend, Edmund, rec , 101 , 109 ; Edmund, gent. , rec. , 107 , 108

William, tenant, 26

Town Furlonge , pasture, Mickleton, Gloucs., 32

Tracebridge Mills, Stawley, Somerset, 139

Travers , Matthew, rec , 10 ; Traves see

Traves, Matthew, rec , 55, 62 ; see Travers

Treales, Treyles, Lancs, 59

Tredinnick, Tredeneck , Cornwall, 15

Tredunnock , Tredenock, Mon., 96*

Tredway , Richard, esq , commissioner , 48

Tregannon, tenement, Cornwall, 14

Tregarrick(? Trevarrack), Cornwall, 15

Tregonan , Tregennon , Tregonnon, Cornwall, 14 , 15

Trelissick, Treleswick , Cornwall, 14

Tremayn (e), Richard, rec., 14*

Trenchard , Sir George, Knt , commissioner , 23, 24n

Trengrove, Trengove, Cornwall, 15

Trent, Somerset , 23, 139

Trentham , Staffs ., 154*

Tresowas , Tresowes, Cornwall, 15

Tres(s)ham, Sir Thomas, Knt. , rec , xx, xxx* , xxxii* , xliv, lxxxiv ; 116* 117* , 118n*

Tretharrap, Cornwall, 15

Trevarrack, Cornwall ; see Tregarrick

Trevillian, Digory, gent , rec., 16*

Trevorghla , Salop . , 131

Trevyn , Elizabeth, wife, rec , 156 ; John, yom., rec , 156 ; Philip, yom., rec ., 155

Trimingham , John, junior, gent , rec , 218

Trott , Frances, wife, rec , 111 ; Matthew, gent. , 111

Trowe, Wilts , 186

Trythall, Truthall, Cornwall, 15

Tucker, William, rec , 26* , 92, 93

Tuddenham, North, Norf., 111

Tuke, Henry, yom., rec , 116

Tully, Alice, wife, rec , 153 ; Henry, 153

Tunstall, Salop , 131

Tunstall, Margaret, spr., rec , 168

Tupton , Derbys, 18

Turbervile, Lewis, gent, rec , 223

Turner, Elizabeth, wife, rec , 151 ; William, 151

Turpyne , William , esq , sheriff of Leics., 87

Turton, Lancs , 73

Tusinga, Marco, lxxvin

Tutbury, Staffs , 155

Twigmore[nr. Brigg], Lincs. , 90* , 91

Twyne, Joan, spr , rec, 180

Twiste, Ann, lessee, Ixxivn; Ann, Queen's laundress , lessee , 203, 204* , 209* , 212* , 213* ; John, lessee, 202; Thomas, esq., 213, 222n

Twittye, William, lessee, 8* ; William, gent , lessee , 27*

Twyford, Hants,lxxxiv

Tyburn , gallows, London, viiin

Tyler, George , rec , 90 ; Thomas, fuller, rec , 142

Tyller, William, yom , rec, 169*

Tylston, Cheshire ; see Tilston

Tymperley, Ann, gentlewoman , rec., 168 ; Mary, gentlewoman , rec. , 168 ; see Timperley

Tyndall, Thomas, yom., rec , 173

Tynkes ; als of Bragge, Thomas

Tyrer, Alice, wid , rec , 85

Tyrley, Tirley, Staffs. , 136

Tyton, Robert, yom , rec. , 116

Ugthorpe, Lythe, N.R. Yorks , 205* , 207* ,215

Ulster, Eleanor, spr. , rec., 112 ; John, yom. , rec , 112

Undertakers , xxin

Upcott, Devon, 20

Uppingham , Ralph, lab , rec , 152

Upton on Severn, Worcs, 192* , 197, 199n

Urmeston , Richard, gent , lessee , 54*

Usk(e), Mon., 98

Uvedall , Anthony, rec , 35 ; Anthony, esq., rec., 38 ; William, commissioner, 39

Vachell, Stephen, gent , rec , 39, 40 ; Thomas , rec ., 2; Thomas , esq . , rec ., 121

Vaham , [ rec ., 127

], gent., 127; Ann, wife,

Vaughan , Edward, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, Ixin ; Michael, rec , 44 ; Walter, esq , commissioner , 47

Walter, esq., sheriff of Mon., 95*; Walter, esq , sheriffofWilts., xciii*

Vaux, William, Lord, rec. , xxxi* , xlivn, lxxxviin ; 1 , 9, 88, 113

Vawce, "Geneta , "wid. ,rec. , 84

INDEX

Venice, Italy, lxxvin

Vernon, Thomas , gent , rec , 133

Viez, Edmund, yom., rec , 146

Vicles , NorthPickenham, Norf, 101

Vise, Ellen, spr., rec , 154

Vivian, Hanniball, esq , lessee , 14* , 17

Vyse, Grace, wid , rec , 154 ; see Vise, Viez

Ward(e), John, rec , 114* ; John, yom., rec , 111 ; Richard, esq , civn ; 2*

Wardle, Cheshire; see Wordhull

Warkes, manor, Suff.; als. of PountneyHall

Warminghurst, Worminghurst, Sussex , 171

Warmodescombe , Oxon , 122

Wade , John, tenant, 27* ; Margery, Margery, supposed rec xxxixn ; and fugitive, 147

Wadebridge , Cornwall, 21

Waffam, Yorks.; see Masham

Wainewright, Edward, husb , rec , 84; William, husb , rec., 84

Wakefeild, Barnard, yeoman of the chamber royal, lessee, 38* , 41

Wakeman , Joan, wife, rec , 197 ; Richard, yom., 197

Walbrook, Walbroke, London, Ward of, 93

Walden , Essex, 27, 166

Waldern(e), Henry, blacksmith, rec , 196 ; Jane, wife, rec., 197 ; Roger, 197 ; William, lab , rec , 196

Waldingfield, Little, Waldingefeild Parva, Suff. , 166

Waldron, Henry, blacksmith, 198 ; Isabel, wife, rec , 198

Wales, lin, lvn, lvi*, lxix, lxxn , lxxxviiin, cvi, cviin , cviii-ix, cxiiin; 223-225 ; North, cix ; South, cix

Walhowe , Margaret, wid , rec , 155

Walker, Dorothy, wife, rec , 149 , 217 ; Edward, son, rec , 141 ; John , gent., rec., 141* ; John, yom., 217; Samson, gent., 149 ; Thomas, yom., rec ., 115

Wallinge, Long Stanton, Cambs , 9

Walpole , Walpoole, Suff , 163 , 165

Walrand, George, gent , rec , 185 ; Thomas , tenant, 185

Walsall, Wallshall, Staffs , 145 , 147* , 151

Walthamstowe , Essex, 25

Walton [on the Hill], Lancs, 82* ; East, Eastwalton , Norf., 111

Walton, John, carpenter , rec , 67

Wandsworth , London, ixn

Warblington, Hants , xxx ; 40

Warburton, Peter, esq , commissioner , 12 ; Peter, sheriff of Co. Pal Chester, cviiin ; 12-13, 13n

Warcop, Westmld. , 183

Wamescombe ,

Warneford, Richard, rec , 34 , 41* ; Richard, gent., rec. , 39 , 186

Warrilowe, Warrylowe, John, yom , 156 ; Mary, wife, rec. , 156

Warrington, Warington, Lancs , 55, 59, 65, 83

Wartling(e), Sussex, 181

Warton, Lancs , 55, 74

Wartrie, Lancs .; see Wavertree

Warwickshire , xlvii, lvn, lxxixn, lxxxviiin; 123, 151 , 182* , 197

Washingley , Hunts , xliii

Water, Katherine, spr -wife, rec , 97

Waterperry, Waterpury, Oxon. , 126

Waters, Margaret, spr , rec , 98

Waters Upton , Salop. , cin

Waterton, Mary, rec , 200, 211 , 212*

Watford, Giles, tenant, 8

Watkyn, "Alsona, " spr-wife, rec , 98; James, 96 ; William, 98

Watkyns, Grace, spr. , rec , "Jenetta," spr.-wife, rec , 98%; Thomas , gent , 98 97 :

Watlington, Watlyngton, Oxon, 126

Watson , Edward, esq., xxxiin; 116 , 117, 118n* ; Edward, esq., sheriff of Northants , 116, 118n ; Frances spr., rec ., 219

Wattes , John, lessee , 172* ; John , yom. , rec , 111 ; Stephen, yom rec , 42

Watton , Norf., 104 , 106

Wavertree (?),Wartrie, Lancs. ,84

Weald, als Weald Barnes, Debden, Essex , 29

Webber , Thomas, lessee , 158* , 165*; Thomas, of the Queen's private kitchen, lessee , 163, 164* ; Thomas , groom of the Queen's private kitchen, lessee, 28* ; als of Lee, Thomas, lessee

Wednesbury, Staffs , 149 , 151 , 156

Weeford, Staffs , 152

Weeke , Weke, Hants , 41

Weeton, Lancs , 64

Welbarnes , Radwinter, Essex , 28

Welbury, N.R. Yorks , 207, 210

Welcombe , Welcom, Devon, 20

Well, Woll, Devon, 22

INDEX

Wellam, John, tenant, 129, 130

Well(e)s, Gilbert , esq , rec , 35; Henry, rec ., 23 ; John, tenant, 108 ;

Thomas, rec., 100, 101 * , 109*

Thomas, esq , rec , lxxxiv, lxxxvn ; Thomas, tenant, 129 , 130 ; Thomas, yom., rec, 108*

Wellhall, Beachamwell , Norf , 99, 100

Wellington, Herefs., 45* , 46* , 50n

Wellington, William, lessee , 44* , 48

Welnetham , Wheltham, Suff., 162 ; Great, MagnaWeltham, Suff , 164*

Weltinge, Sussex ; see Wilting

Welshman ; als ofDavyes , Thomas

Wem, Weme, Salop, 133 , 135, 137*

Wendlebury , Oxon , 126

Wenhaston, Suff., 165*

Wennesden [? Wenhaston], Suff, 163

Wentworth, Matilda, rec , 200, 212*

Wereham , Weareham , Norf., 110 , 111 , 112

Werrett, Joan, spr , rec , 142

Wesham , Westham, Kirkham, Lancs , 74 , 75 , 77 , 80

West, Anthony, yom. , rec. , 218 ; William, gent , commissioner , 208

West Bromwich , Staffs., 150 ; Derby ; see Derbye, Lancs .; Farley, Sussex , xxx; Ham, Essex, 26* , 27 ; Riding, Yorks , 220

Westbury, Hants , 35

Westby, Lancs., 75 , 76, 77* ; Kirkham, Lancs., 74* ; with Plumpton, Lancs , 52, 59

Westbye , John , rec , 53 ,54

Westham , Lancs.; see Wesham ; Wessham, Sussex, 170, 180, 181

Westhide , Herefs, 46*

Westholdinge , Whitgift, W.R. Yorks , 202

Westminster , xvii-xix,xxvii, xxix,xlvii, lxv* , lxixn , lxxn , lxxxiii, lxxxv , lxxxvi, cvi-ix ; and passim in Text ; Hall, xxix, lii*, liiin*

Westmorland , lxxxn, lxxxviiin ; 58 , 183-184

Weston , Staffs , 149 ; Warwicks. , 123 ; -super-Mare, Somerset, 142; Underwood, Bucks , xliii

Weston , Jerome, esq , commissioner , 28 ; Richard, lessee , 103 * , 109*

Wetherby, Peter, gent , rec , 62 , 81

Wetherden, Suffolk , xxx

Wetherell, Adriana, rec , 220

Whalley, Lancs , 66* , 72*

Wharton, George, gent , rec , 30

Whellford Mills, Kempsford, Gloucs , 30-31

Whethams , Hinton Daubnay, Hants ., 37, 40

Whiskins, William , esq.,25

Whiston, Lancs , 62*

Whitacres , Henry, rec , 72*

Whitbye,John, rec , 12*; John, husb'n , rec , 13

Whitchurch , Glam , 223

White, Whyte, John, rec. , 141 ; Katherine, 29 ; Peter, lxxvin ; 166 ; Peter, lessee, 103* ; Richard, gent , rec , 28 , 29

Whitehall, Walter, rec , 87 ; see Whitall, Whittall

Whiteles, Devon, 20

Whitemore , Whytmore, John, esq , rec , 10 , 11 ; William, gent. , lessee , 10 *

Whitfeild, Ellen, wid , rec , 83

Whitgift , Whitguifte, Yorks , 202

Whitney, Eustace, sheriffof Herefordshire , xlviii

Whit(t)all, [ ], wife, rec , 151 ; Walter, rec , 147* , 148* ; Walter, gent , rec , 145, 151*; see Whitehall

Whittingham, Lancs , 73*

Whittingham, Richard, rec , 73* , 81

Whittington, [John], 85n

Whytmore; seeWhitemore

Wigan, Lancs. , 58, 63, 64 , 65* , 68* , 81 , 82*; Woodhouses, Lancs , 81

Wigganthorpe , Wigginthorpe, N.R. Yorks , 214

Wiggenhall, St. Mary, Wiggenhale , Norf , 111

Wiggenton , manor, Herefs , 48

Wigmore, Margery, wid , rec , 38*

Wilberfoss(e), E.R. Yorks , 220

Wilby, Suff . , 168

Wilcockes, James, lessee , 189* , 193

Wilford, Willford, Notts. , 119

Wilford, Thomas, esq., rec., 51*

Wilkinson; als of Johnson, Thomas

Willes, Vincent, yom. , rec., 140

William IV, Kingof England , liii

William and Mary, reignof, xin

William, David, 97; Jane, spr-wife, rec , 97

Williams, Willyams, Edward, rec , 126; Hugh, lessee, 95* , 96* ; Jane, spr , rec . , 98; John, esq . , sheriff of Dorset, 24n ; Thomas , lessee , 192* , 193*

Williamson, Robert, husb , rec , 61

Willington, Ellen, wife, rec. , 153 ; Margaret, spr , rec , 149 , 153 ; William, lab. , rec., 153*

Willmott, Wyllmott , Leonard, lessee , 124* , 125*

Willoughby, Notts , 119

Willoughby(e), Sir Francis, Knt, sheriff of Notts , 119, 120, 120n ; George, rec., 105 ; George, esq., rec ., 104 , 105

Wilpshire, Lancs., 54, 70, 82

Whilpshire, Whilphire,

Wilson, John, junior, lab , rec , 12* , 13 ; Thomas, xliv-v ; William ,

mason, rec , 219

Wilting(e),Weltinge[nr St. Leonards], Sussex, 174, 179

Wilton, Tredinnick, Cornwall, 15

Wiltshire,xxi, lxxvin* , lxxviiin, lxxxin, lxxxiv, lxxxvn, lxxxvii-xciv, c, ciin; 3* , 36, 184-188

Wimbish, Wymbisshe , Thaxsted , Essex, 28, 29* , 166

Winchester, Winton , Hants. , 38, 39, 186

Windesor, Walter, esq , lessee , 176, 177*

Windle, Wyndle, Lancs , 10, 55, 61* , 62, 66, 67, 81

Windle, John, yom , rec , 63

Wingfeild, John, gent , lessee, 14* , 17

Winforton, Winferton, Herefs . , 44

Winocle, Isabel , wife, rec , 152 ; John, lab , rec , 152

Winslade , Wynslade , Hants , 42

Winstanley, Humphrey, gent , rec. , 63,81

Winton, Hants %; see Winchester

Winwick , Wynockes, Wynwyck, Lancs , 51, 63, 67* , 81*

Wiseman , Jane, wid , rec , 29 ; William, esq., rec., 27

Wissett, Suff., 163*

Wiswell, Wiswall, Lancs , 71* , 72*

Witham, Peter, gent , rec , 218

Witham Friary, Wytham Frarye, Somerset, 140

Witheringes , Anthony, lessee , 146*

Withes, Jane, wife, rec , 219 ; Simon, 219

Withington, Wythington, Lancs , 68* , 86n

Withycombe , Wythicombe, Somerset, 141

Wix, Wickes, Essex, 27

Wodroffe, Lady Ann, wife, rec , 217 ; Richard, gent , 217

Wokefield, Wookefeild, Berks ,3*

Wolff(e), Nicholas, rec., 171, 177 , 178*

Wollescrofte, Dorothy, wid., rec., 156

Wolley, Yorks ; see Woolley

Wolley, Sir John, Clerk of The Pipe, lin, liv* ; Sir John, Latin Secretary ofState , livn

Wolmer, Wollmer, John, gent, rec , 196* ; see Woolmer, Woolmore

Wolseley , Staffs, 143

Wolseley , Erasmus, esq , rec , 143* , 152 ; see Worseley

Wolstanton , Staffs , 149 , 153

Wolterton, Norf., 111

Wolton, Litle, Lancs.; see Woolton, Little

Wolvercote , Oxon.; see Woolvercot

Wolverhampton , Staffs , 152*

Womersley , W.R. Yorks. , 217

Wood , Frances, spr , rec., 153

Wood Bevington , Warwicks , 182

Woodcock, James, gent , rec., 94

Woodcote , Woodcotes , Hants, 35

Woodend, Eccles, Lancs , 56 ; Queenhill, Worcs , 190, 192

Woodhappe, Nicholas, yom , rec , 194

Woodhey, Thurstaston, Cheshire, 9

Woodley , Alice, wid., rec., 84

Woodplumpton , Lancs , 57, 69, 74*

Woodward , Elizabeth, spr, rec , 180; Richard, tenant, 36 ; Robert, yom , rec ., 168

Woodwardes Feild , Herefs ., 45

Woolaston Graunge, Gloucs, 31 Cublington, Woolaston ,

Woolfardisworthy, Woolfridisworthie, Devon, 20

Woolley, Wolley, Royston, W.R. Yorks. , 217

Woolley, Ellen, rec. , 12*

Woolmer, Mary, wife, rec. , 196 ; "Rowfe, " gent , rec , 196; William, gent , 196 ; see Wolmer, Woolmore

Woolmore , John, gent , rec , 196 ; see Woolmer, Wolmer

Woolton, Little, Litle Wolton, Lancs , 84 ; Much, Lancs , 83

Woolvercot(t), Wolvercote, Wolgercote, Oxon , 121 , 127

Worcestershire , xliii, xlvii, lxxxn, lxxxiv , lxxxviiin , ciin* , cvn, cxiiin ; 31, 33, 132, 189-199

Wordhull (?Wardle), Cheshire , 12*

Worsall, N.R. Yorks , xliv ; 215

Wors(e)ley, Alice, wife, rec , 29 ; Alice, junior, spr., rec , 30;Dorothy, rec., 29 ; Edward, gent , rec , 30 ; Elizabeth, spr , rec , 29 ; Erasmus, gent., rec., 152 ; Hugh ; als of Worsley, Ralph ; John, gent. , rec , 30 ; Mary, spr, rec , 30 ; Ralph, als. Hugh, gent , rec , xcvii* 29*; Robert, commissioner , 71

Thomas , commissioner , 71 ; Wolseley see

Worthe, Hugh, lessee , 144* , 148*

INDEX

Worthington, Richard, rec , 73* ; Robert, rec , 76* , 78* William , gent , rec., 74*

Wray(e), Sir Christopher, Justice of Assize, xxviin ; Jane, wife, rec , 214 ; William, esq., 214

Wrenford, Dorothy, wife, rec , 197 ; Frances, spr , rec., 197 ; Thomas, gent , 197

Wright, Cicely, 59 ; Joan, wife, rec., 149, 153 ; John, 59 ; John, husb ., rec . , 59; John, yom., 149 ; Robert, gent.,41 ; Roger, 59 ; William, 153

Wrightes, als . Glemhams , manor, Suff . , 163, 164 , 165*

Wrightington, Eccleston , Lancs , 68* , 76

Writtington, John, esq., commissioner , 56, 60*

Wroothe, Hugh, yom , rec , 110

Wrothe, William , yom.,rec , 95

Wydmerpoole , William , esq , commissioner , 120*

Wylkes, Elizabeth, wid., rec., 152

Wylkynson, William , rec., xxin

Wynnall, Frances, wife, rec , John, 196 196 ;

Wynn(e), ap Eliza, Robert, esq , commissioner , 224* ; ap Robert , John, rec , 224*

Wynterfludd, Joan ,wid , rec , 30

Wyntersall, Elizabeth, wid , rec ., 127

Wythington, Lancs.; see Withington

Yard(e)ley, Northants , 115; Worcs, 195 , 197 , 198 ; Hall, Wimbish, Thaxsted , Essex, 29 ; Hastings, Hastynges, Northants , 114* , 115

Yarkhill, Herefs , 49

Yate, [ ], wife, rec , 153 ; Eleanor, wife, rec., 155 ; John, lab , rec, 153 ; Richard, yom., 155

Yaxley, Suff, 163* , 167

Yaxley, Eve, wid., rec., 163 ; John , rec., 108

Yeapham, Devon , 20

Yeaton , Salop, 134

Yeernold, John, yom., rec., 193*

Yelverton, Edward, gent , rec , 105

Yendacott , Yandicott, Devon, 21

Yonge, David, yom. , rec , 24 ; "Freman, " lessee , 185**

Yeovil, Somerset ; see Evill

York, archdiocese, xx ; xxin , lvi ; 210 city, xxi,

Yorke, Elizabeth, wid , rec , 219 ; Isabel, wid., rec. , 220

Yorkshire, xv, xliin, * xliv* , lvn , lvi, Iviin, lxvn , lxix, lxxivn, lxxvn , lxxvin* , lxxxn* , lxxxiv, lxxxviiin, cn, ci* , cvi* , cviii* , cxin* , cxiiin; 54, 133 , 199-222 ; WestRiding, ci

Zeal(e), Borough of, Devon, 21* ; South, Devon , 22

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EX-

A =

F = =

Name etc. of sheriff (translation)

His year of office.

Total debt.

Nature of debt (formula) : "of his various ("pluribus") debts concerning recusants" .

Reference to the original "Statement" of his arrears

Annotations(translation)

STATEMENTS OF SHERIFFS' ARREARS

A =

E = =

Name etc. of current sheriff "rendering this account" .

Particularrents and forfeitures unaccounted for duringhis term of office. Note : The numbers in square brackets refer to the numbered entries in the preceding text (abridged)

Sum total ofabovedebts owed bysheriff

Discharges of the numbered particulars in B (abridged)

Note of sheriff's acquittance, or of deferred settlement(translation).

ENROLMENTS OF ESTREATED CONVICTIONS

(

RECORDS OF FINES PAID

)

Name etc. of convicted recusant (translation).

The word "owes" omitted. The word "owes" inserted.

Total fine incurred

Total period ofrecusancy.

Division of fine : (a) for period of recusancy specified in indictment.

Reference to statutory authority for fine (i.e. the Act 28 Eliz , c 6 [1586-7], enrolled in Q.R.,M.R., Easter term, "Recorda" section).

Recital of the offence as therein stated , i.e. of not attending "any church, chapel or usual place of common prayer" during the time of divine service of the Established Church

Period ofrecusancyas specified in indictment .

Computation of the duration of recusancy (formula) "at the rate of 28 days per month" .

Division of fine: (b) for non-compliance after conviction .

Date ofconviction

Period (in lunar months) of non-compliance

Non-compliance defined : viz failureto submit and conform in accordance with the "true meaning" of the Act 23 Eliz , c 1 [1581]

Annotations (translation)

All original annotations are italicised Names of recusants are printed in bold type