Index of Subjects

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1974.

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M. C. B. Dawes. M. R. Devine. H. E. Jones. M. J. Post, 'Index of Subjects', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II, (London, 1974) pp. 604-607. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol16/pp604-607 [accessed 20 May 2024].

M. C. B. Dawes. M. R. Devine. H. E. Jones. M. J. Post. "Index of Subjects", in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II, (London, 1974) 604-607. British History Online, accessed May 20, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol16/pp604-607.

Dawes, M. C. B.. Devine, M. R.. Jones, H. E.. Post, M. J. . "Index of Subjects", Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II, (London, 1974). 604-607. British History Online. Web. 20 May 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol16/pp604-607.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

A

Assarts, 176, 247, 402, 521, 710

Assize of novel disseisin, 248

Assizes, special, at Gloucester, 55

B

Baronies. See Index of Persons and Places under Alnwick; Balliol; Bardolf; Barnstaple; Beanley; Bedford; Bothal; Burford; Cainhoe; Dean, West; Dudley; Fitzwalter; Gilsland; Greystoke; Hastings; Leybourne; Montchensy; Odell; Ovingham; Pembroke; Redbourne; Shelford; Stafford; Stansted Mountfitchet; Tattershall; Valoines

Books, types of:
-, missals, 74, 80, 107, 334, 336, 650
-, processional (precessionario) used as a register, 1053
-, psalter, 1053
-, register of deaths (martilogio), 1053

Brewhouses, 105, 182, 739, 740

Bridges. See Index of Persons and Places under Barnstaple; Hythe Bridge

C

Castles. See Index of Persons and Places under Abergavenny; Acre, Castle; Appleby; Bamburgh; Barnstaple; Belvoir; Beverstone; Bolsover; Bourne; Bramber; Brough under Stainmoor; Brougham; Buckenham, New; Caistor; Carisbrooke; Carlisle; Cause; Chepstow; Chilham; Cilgerran; Donington, Castle; Dorstone; Dover; Dunster; Egremont; Ferns; Harbottle; Heighley; Helmsley; Knaresborough; Launceston; Leeds; Lewes; Leybourne; Llandovery; London, Baynard Castle; Manorbier; Middleham; Newcastle upon Tyne; Newland; Newport [cos. Monmouth and Pembroke]; Northwich; Norwich; Okehampton; Pembroke; Pendragon; Pleshey; Plympton St. Maurice; Porchester; Ravensworth; Red Castle; Reigate; Richard’s Castle; Richmond; Rochester; Ruthin; St. Briavels; Skipton; Sleaford, New; Stafford; Tamworth; Tenby; Tickhill; Totnes; Trematon; Wallingford; Wark; Weoley Castle; Winchester; Windsor; York

Chantries. See Index of Persons and Places under Awre; Brunton; Buckland; Dagnall; Finchingfield; London; Petherton, South; Poynings; Sapcote; Settrington; Sherborne St. John; Slapton; Stoke; Teynham

Chases, 22, 23, 385, 452, 833, 845
-, See also Forests

Churchwardens, named, 339

Corrodies, 433

Customs:
-, wool, casual toll of 2 1/2d. for every sack of, 676
-, great custom of woolhides and woolfells shipped in Newcastle upon Tyne, 733

Customs. See Rents and services

D

Dovecotes, 58, 73, 112, 149, 290, 399, 427, 430, 477, 478, 481, 489, 526, 594, 602, 621, 739, 793, 975, 1069, 1070, 1093

Dove-pounds, 667

Dower, assignments of, passim

E

Estovers, 987

Exchequer of Carlisle, 645, 1007

F

Fairs. See Index of Persons and Places under Babbington; Bingham; Brough under Stainmoor; Chiselborough; Ellesmere; Framesden; Hunmanby; Newport; Partney; Rothwell; St. Ives; Skipton; Uxbridge; Winchcombe

Fees, passim

Ferries. See Index of Persons and Places under Hessle; Saltash; Skipton on Swale; Smallhythe; Stoke Bardolph

Fines for delay (sursisa), 36

Fisheries, 23, 141, 149, 205, 208, 226, 259, 307, 308, 325, 328, 333, 385, 427, 430, 450, 487, 548, 613, 623, 702, 743, 770, 847, 855, 922, 983, 1069, 1070, 1076

Fishgarths, 3, 983

Fishponds, stews and stanks, 105, 194, 195, 621, 871, 954, 970, 1072, 1076

Fishpools, 453

Floods. See Weather

Forests. See Index of Persons and Places under Alice Holt; Ashdown; Cannock; Clarendon; Cliffe; Groveley; Inglewood; Kinfare; Machen; Sherwood; Whinfell; Woolmer

G

Glebes, 361

H

Honors. See Index of Persons and Places under Amesbury; Arsik; Aumale; Belvoir; Berkhampstead; Bolingbroke; Boulogne; Bourne; Brecknock; Chester; Cheylesmore; Clare; Clifford; Cockermouth; Crevequer; Ewyas Harold; Eye; Gifford; Gloucester; Greetham; Haughley; Huntingdon; Kyme; Laigle; Lancaster; Leicester; Lewes; Lisle; Mohaut; Monmouth; Montgomery; Okehampton; Peverel; Radnor; Rayleigh; Richmond; St. Valéry; Tickhill; Trowbridge; Tutbury; Walkern; Wallingford; Weobley; Wigmore; Winchester

I

Inquisitions, passim
-, inspeximus of, 257
-, jurors refuse to return verdict at, 898
-, lost in the Exchequer: transcript taken from the escheator’s accounts, 1061
-, taken ex officio and also by virtue of writ, 1046

J

Jurors, at inquisition, in danger of dying of hunger, 898

K

Kiddles, 917

L

Law courts:
-, Common Bench (Common Pleas), keeper of the writs of. See Index of Persons and Places under Haxay, Thomas de
-, frankpledge, views of, 57, 65, 67, 68, 135, 206, 245, 279, 325, 327, 379, 380, 416, 417, 437, 442, 446, 447, 449, 453, 462, 463, 541, 548, 708, 783, 975, 1031, 1069, 1070
-, leets, 23, 25–7, 149, 225–7, 314, 384, 418, 433, 434, 444, 446, 454, 613, 679, 978, 1019
-, ‘redelevet’, 299
-, rere-county, 328
-, tourn, 300

Lordships. See Index of Persons and Places under Abergavenny; Bleddfa; Bwlch-y-Dynas; Cause; Cilgerran; Cramlington; Greetham; Heathpool; Kinderton cum Hulme; Kirk Andrews; Luton; Machen; Maldon; Newport [cos. Monmouth and Pembroke]; Richard’s Castle; Traean Clynton; Wenllwch

M

Markets. See Index of Persons and Places under Caistor; Caythorpe; Ellesmere; Foulsham; Grisaugh; Hunmanby; Kersey; Maldon; Newport; Partney;Richard’s Castle; Sheringham; Skipton; Thornbury; Uxbridge; Winchcombe

Marshes, 613, 821, 869
-, salt, 67, 636

Mills, 26, 204, 226, 233, 259, 385, 594, 608, 621, 636, 779, 970, 974, 1064, 1101
-, corn, 314, 815
-, fulling, 6, 8, 149, 226, 314, 444, 450, 453, 739, 740, 819, 989
-, horse, 380
-, water, 6, 60, 68, 71, 84, 85, 112, 194, 195, 279, 284, 285, 308, 345, 431, 439, 453, 457, 477, 489, 517, 529, 533, 548, 559, 602, 612, 638, 651, 740, 743, 757, 804, 833, 855, 935, 988, 989, 991, 1017, 1030, 1034, 1059, 1060, 1070
-, wind, 37, 84, 89, 241, 341, 348, 350, 651, 712, 975

Millponds, 75, 226, 548

Mines, iron, 194
-, sea-coal, 194

O

Obit, 184

Occupations:
-, apothecary, 697
-, arblaster, 512
-, brewer, 524
-, butcher, 499
-, cornchandler, 182
-, draper, 512
-, grocer, 182, 184
-, hurrer, 524
-, malt monger, 524
-, ropemaker, 184
-, sherman, 185
-, skinner, 1087
-, surgeon, 185
-, vintner, 764
-, waxchandler, 672
-, weaver, 983

Offices. See Index of Persons and Places, passim
-, artiller, king’s, 513
-, Household:
-, butler, 340
-, chamberlain, 534
-, of the pantry, 1018
-, porker, 98
-, yeoman of the king’s robes, 991
-, serjeant at law, 960

Ovens, common, 105, 140, 522, 739, 740

P

Parks, 22, 25, 26, 34, 37, 194, 205, 208, 211, 225, 287, 323, 325, 379–81, 384, 385, 398, 403, 416–18, 444, 452, 453, 470, 548, 555, 611, 621, 622, 679, 736, 739, 744, 833, 969, 974, 1017, 1030, 1043, 1065, 1069, 1070, 1075, 1076, 1083
-, enclosure of, 398

Peat-moors, 721

Peels, ruinous, 744

Purpresture, 1007

Q

Quarries, 457
-, stone, 721, 1083

R

Reed beds (juncaria), 444

Rents and services:
-, arrows, barbed, 379, 452, 819
-, at the King’s coronation, as butler, 678, 679
-, challenging anyone to oppose the king’s right, 578
-, making for the king a certain pottage called Maopygarnon, 782
-, rendering 3 cups of maple (mapy’), 929
-, serjeanty of napery, 21, 897, 899
-, ‘averyngslvere’, 205
-, baking dues (furnag’), 740
-, barley, 224, 496
-, malting, 754
-, palm, 115
-, candles, 754
-, capons, 242, 687, 708, 926, 955
-, white, 73
-, carrying a pennoncel in the king’s army within the realm of England before the footmen of the hundred of Wotton, 423
-, castleguard, 41, 129, 234–36, 239, 299, 329, 379, 384, 473, 474, 590, 612, 651, 721, 734, 746, 779, 996, 1029, 1036, 1037
-, chiminage, 773, 1042
-, cloves, 447
-, collars for greyhounds, 452
-, cornage, 233, 234, 247, 322, 348, 410, 645, 651, 721, 734, 735, 746, 779, 1007, 1008, 1038
-, cummin, 119, 421, 452, 457, 508, 593, 658, 659, 708, 740, 821, 882, 1008, 1015, 1024
-, curry comb, 787
-, eels, 495
-, eggs, 424, 533
-, faggots, 754
-, ‘filstere’, 225, 226
-, fleeces, 496
-, ‘fyldeston rente’, 928
-, gloves, 194, 195, 710, 942
-, hay, 754
-, haybote, 399, 845
-, hens, 60, 149, 424, 533, 754
-, ‘hoggesfe’, 258
-, holding offices, of abbot’s chief steward in the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds, 11, 898
-, of archbishop’s butler on the day of his translation, 439
-, of archbishop’s chamberlain at the time of his installation, 41
-, of archbishop’s steward on the day of his translation, 439
-, of frankpledge, constable of the peace and beadle, as necessary at Mansfield Woodhouse, 686
-, of usher at the door of the king’s chamber, 664
-, of woodward in the manor of Stour Provost, 91
-, holding the king’s stirrup whenever he comes to Shebbear, 204
-, honey, 495
-, horseshoes, 287
-, housebote, 399, 845
-, keeping a falcon every year until it is of full strength … bringing it to the lord’s court he and his wife shall stay there with 3 grooms, 3 horses and 3 greyhounds for 40 days at the expense of his lord, and shall have, for his labour, his lord’s second-best robe, as well his lady’s second-best robe for the use of his wife, 989
-, keeping forests and hays, 150, 520, 686
-, keeping the door of the queen’s chamber, 647
-, keeping watch at Calais, 386, 714, 886, 1021
-, kernets, 287
-, lampreys, 535, 767
-, ‘lantolf peryes’, 824
-, laying a cloth on the king’s table on Christmas day, 96
-, leading 50 men on foot in the king’s service and at the king’s wages from Newmarket to Wales when there is war there, 1099
-, maintaining a moiety of a chapel and of a hall in the castle at Dover, 612
-, mewing a goshawk yearly, 135
-, oats, 496
-, ‘parkselver’, 438
-, peas, white, 754
-, pepper, 1, 71, 73, 84, 349, 421, 429, 452, 481, 574, 593, 658, 659, 710, 740, 783, 821, 834, 861, 927, 1023, 1024, 1036, 1037
-, peppercorns, 795
-, ‘petruspeny’, 449
-, pig’s carcase, 754
-, ploughing, reaping and carrying, 795
-, ploughshares, 533
-, providing an ‘arblaston’, 978
-, providing a bailiff for the king at Leyland, 546
-, providing a hobbler for 40 days in the war in Scotland, 882
-, providing a hobbler for safeguarding Porchester castle in time of war for 15 days, 883
-, providing a horse price 5s. and a sack and a ‘prik’, whenever there is war between the King of England and Wales, 1100
-, providing a man on foot with a bow and 2 arrows to go with the king as far as Montford when there is war in Wales, at his own cost, 343
-, providing a man to bear a heroner in the king’s presence every year during the season as required, the bearer receiving from the king 2 robes and a bouche de court yearly, and 7 1/2 d. daily, 1030
-, providing a man with an unbarded horse, armed with an ‘aketon’, ‘palet’, lance, and gauntlets of plate, for 40 days when there is war in Scotland, 523, 655
-, providing 4 men at arms in the king’s army for 40 days, 530
-, providing 6 men for 2 days at the time of hay harvest, 940
-, providing men, horses and hounds twice a year for the prior of Dunstable, 68
-, providing part of an archer in the castle of York for 40 days in time of war, 249
-, providing a reaper to reap for 1 day in autumn in Elmton, 242
-, providing a tithing man yearly at view of frankpledge, 68
-, puture, 233
-, ‘rekesiiver’, 836
-, rendering, at the Exchequer, a bow without a cord whenever there shall be war between the king and the prince of Wales, 28, 911, 923
-, rent sec, 315, 596, 738, 740
-, ‘Romscot’, 612
-, roses, 71, 128, 198, 264, 384, 400, 456, 491, 517, 525, 612, 633, 643, 661, 672, 876, 1026, 1036, 1037, 1062, 1084, 1087, 1089, 1091
-, red, 284, 672, 1004, 1013
-, salmon, 495
-, salt, 636
-, ‘schottys’, 418
-, scutage, 62, 64, 240, 457, 565, 1033
-, sheriff’s aid, 129, 228, 300, 398
-, sparrowhawks, 30, 120, 578, 713, 887, 916, 977, 1024, 1025, 1045
-, mewed, 1065
-, sore, 156, 215, 247, 779, 863
-, spurs, 169, 272, 359, 375, 399, 489, 527, 710, 752, 1046, 1087, 1095
-, gilt, 1, 68, 149, 194, 214, 239, 283, 387, 405, 419, 439, 527, 571, 611, 647, 821, 823, 834, 858, 859, 969, 979, 1101
-, white, 936
-, ‘stuth’, 194
-, tablecloths, 183
-, truncage, 247
-, tunics and hoods with furs, 355, 503
-, turbot, 975
-, ‘wapentakefynes’, 833
-, ‘wamot’, 127, 415, 636
-, wax, 657, 1023, 1027
-, wheat, 46, 224, 477, 496, 754, 1085
-, works:
-, autumn, 149
-, bondmen’s, 314
-, boon, 975
-, ‘Waterbenes’, 27

S

Salt pans, 312, 1046

Sand, easement of, 667

Services. See Rents and services

Sheepwalks, 975, 987

T

Tenter-grounds, 82

Tenures:
-, ancient demesne of the Crown, 135, 244, 682, 686, 795, 958, 960
-, at the king’s pleasure, by the rod, 8
-, at the lord’s will, by the rod, 314
-, burgages, 25, 84, 264, 337, 396, 525, 526, 592, 594, 603, 656, 739, 834, 898, 1028
-, burgage, free, 49, 50, 82, 138, 167, 181, 182, 184, 256, 271, 381, 399, 452, 453, 499, 512, 521, 524, 592, 697, 711, 718, 723, 728, 733, 819, 824, 830, 872, 913, 921, 971, 985, 987, 1035, 1036, 1063, 1065
-, conventionary, 667
-, courtesy of England, 273, 376, 642, 643, 718, 721, 1028
-, gavelkind, 115, 239, 533, 612, 929
-, serjeanty, grand, 423, 575
-, petty, 28, 30, 116, 183, 237, 482, 753, 887, 916, 923, 1000
-, villeinage, 127, 211, 290, 635, 717, 721, 833

W

Weather, a great wind, 107
-, floods, 72, 481

Weights and measures:
-, 8 bovates=1 carucate=1 knight’s fee, 736
-, 5 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736, 737
-, 6 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736
-, 7 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736, 737, 741
-, 7 1/2 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736
-, 8 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736, 737, 741
-, 9 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 741
-, 10 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 737, 741
-, 12 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 737, 741–43
-, 15 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 736, 737
-, 18 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 741
-, 20 carucates=1 knight’s fee, 741, 742
-, 1 selion contains 1 rood, 252

Weirs, 218, 608, 977, 1072

Wills, probate of, produced in court by the archbishop of Canterbury, 438
-, proved in the hustings of London, 82, 182, 184, 499, 512, 524, 724

Wreck of the sea, 975

Writs, passim