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This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ An introduction to and edition of the Hugh Bigod eyre rolls, June 1258 - February 1259 : P.R.O. Just 1/1187 & Just 1/873. Hershey, Andrew H The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 08. Oct. 2021 430 This is the second of two volumes to the thesis: An Introduction to and Edition of the Hugh Bigod Eyre Rolls, June 1258-February 1259: P.R.O. Just 1/1187 & Just 1/873 by Andrew H. Hershey submiited for the degree of Ph. D. at King's College, London University of London October 1991 B1BL LONDON UNIV 431 Table of Contents VOLUME 1 Introduction Thie............................ .. ......... 1 ThesisAbstract ......................................... ................................................._...................2 owledgements.......... ....... 3 Dedon..........................._............. ._..4 Tableof Content ........ ......._ ....................................._................. LPreface..................................... ........................................................ .............. IL WhyBigod?............................................................................... ........10 III. TheEym and the Pmgram of Reform......................................................................................................26 w. SelectCases from Hugh Bigod's First Eyre: Just 1/1187.............................................................45 V. Select Cases from Surrey and Kent: The Picture Presented by Just 1/873 ................... VLThe Effectiveness of Hugh Bigod as Justiciar of England.............................................................79 VII. The Documents _......................................................_..............................................._.......... Vifi. Notes on Text and Translation.................................................................................................................105 Appendices Appendix I: Counties in which Hugh Bigod Sat to Hear Pleas Between June 1258-February 1259 and their Last Visitation..........................................................108 Appendix H: Distributionof Pleas from Just 1/1187.........................................................................108 Appendix III: General Information on the Querelae in the Eyre Rolls of Hugh Bigod.......................... _................................................... 109 AppendixIVA: Index to the Querelae found on Just 1/1187...........................................110 AppendixIVB: Index to the Querelae found on Just 1,73................................................................113 Appendix V: Material Relating to the Shere Incident taken from Just 1/874, m. 31........118 AppendixVI: Just 1/1187 Frequency of Civil Pleas............................................... ............ 122 Appendix VII: Just 1/38 Frequency of Civil Pleas from the Berkshire Eyre of 1248...........124 Appendix VIII: Chronological Ordering of Cases from Just 1/1187 & Just 1/873...................125 AppendixIX: Index to Rolls Just 1/1187 and Just 1,73..................................................................126 BilgraIw......................... ...... .......... ............................................ ...................... ............................. .......................175 Edited Texts: AppendixA: Just 1/1 187..................................................................... 181 VOLUME 2 AppendixB: Just 1i73............................................................................................................................................432 432 Roll Wrapper to Just 1/873 (sown to tail of m. 9) PLEAS OF ASSIZES AND QUERELAE AND THE INQUIRIES OF THE FOUR KNIGHTS BEFORE HUGH BIGOD JUSTICIAR OF ENGLAND IN THE FORTY-THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY SON OF KING JOHN, IN THE COUNTIES OF SURREY AND KENT. The above is a translation of the roll wrapper, whose basic layout appears below. Dockets byArthurAgarde [c. 1602]: Surne) ( ii) 161h century process mark Assize et Querel' Kent) Anno xliii' H. tercii The following label is in a 13th century hand. Placita de assisis et Querelis et inquisionibus quatuor militum coram Hugone Bygot Justiciario Anglie, Anno regni regis Henrici flu regis Johannis Quadragessimo tercio In Comitatibus Surr' et Kant'. Further Dockets by Agarde: Surf ( ii) ( il) il) Anno xliii ( ii) The folowing title is in a j3th century hand. ( il) ( ii) tercius Inquisiciones Surr' Kant' Further Dockets by Agarde: Anno xliii0 H. tercii The folowing word is in a 13th century hand. BIGOD Just 1/873 433 Assise et Jurate Capte Coram H. le Bygod Justiciario Anglie apud Bermund' In Comitatu Surf in Crastino sancti Edmundi Regis anno xliii. Assizes and Jury-Pleas Taken before [Hugh] Bigod Justiciar of England at Bermondsey in the County of Surrey on the Morrow of the Feast of Saint Edmund the King Year 43 [21 November 1258]. B1.(Surr', T) Ass. yen. rec. si Johannes de Gatesden' injuste etc. disseisivit Gilbertum fihium Willelmi de Colevill' de libero tenemento suo in Kersaulton' post primam etc. Et unde queritur quod disseisivit eum de uno mesuagio, una carucata terre et uno molendino aquatico cum pertinenciis. Et Johannes venit. Et nichil dicit quare assisa remaneat, nisi tantum quod dicit quod quidam Radulfus fihius Willelmi de Colevill' feoffavit ipsum de predictis tenementis, unde dicit quod si aliqua disseisina predicto Gilberto inde facta fuit, hoc fuit per predictum Radulfum et non per ipsum. Et similiter dicit quod predictus Gilbertus nunquam fuit in seisina de predictis tenementis ita quod potuit inde disseisiri. Et de hoc ponit se super assisam. Et Gilbertus quesitus qualiter clamat liberum tenementum in predictis mesuagio, molendino et terra, dicit quod revera quidam Willelmus de Colevill' avus ipsius Gilberti feoffavit Willelmum de Colevill' juniorem filium suum et patrem ipsius Gilberti cuius heres ipse est de predictis mesuagio, molendino ci terra tenenda de capitale domino feodi illius. ha quod predictus Willelmus junior per feoffamentum illud fuit in seisina de predictis tenementis circiter per tres annos quousque obiit. El post mortem ipsius Willelmi, seisivit predictus Willelmus avus predicta tenementa in manum suam ratione custodie cum predicto Gilberto filio et herede ipsius Willelmi junioris eo quod ipse fuit infra etatem, et sic tenuit tenementa illa nomine custodie circiter per tres annos. Et postmodum venit predictus Radulfus de Colevill' filius ipsius Willelmi avi postnatus et tantum fecit versus ipsum Willelmum avum, quod idem Willelmus feoffavit ipsum Radulfum de omnibus predicus tenementis. Qui eadem tenementa tenuit per aliquod tempus per feoffamentum illud. Et in processu temporis percepic idem Radulfus quod predictus Willelmus avus pater suus nichil juris habuit in eisdem tenementis nisi ratione custodie cum predicto Gilberto fihio predicti Willelmi junoris et accessit ad predictum Willelmum patrem suum et reddidit ei omnia predicta tenementa de quibus ipsum prius feoffaverat per cartam suam de quietaclamacio quam predictus Gilbertus profert et que hoc testatur. Et dicit quod (post') reddicionem 111am tenuit predictus Willelmus avus predicta tenementa in manu sua ratione custodie cum predicto Gilberto circiter per quatuor annos, quousque predictus Willelmus avus obiit. Et post mortem ipsius Willelmi seisivit predictus Johannes de Gatesden' predicta tenementa in manum suam ratione custodie cum predicto Gilberto, eo quod idem Johannes tunc temporis tenuit omnes terras Ingerami de Fen(h")ges capitalis dominus feodi illius in partibus illis in manu sua. Qui eadem tenementa tenuit nomine custodie circiter per lies annos. Et postmodum perquisivit predictus Radulfus quandam assisam nove [disseisine] de eisdem tenementis versus predictum Johannem de Gatesden' coram W. de Ebor' et sociis suis justiciariis itinerantibus hic. ha quod per quandam collusionem factam inter ipsum Johannem et predictum Radulfum remanserunt predicta tenementa eidem Johanni in feodo per quoddam feoffamentum ipsius Radulfi. El quod ita sit ponit se super assisam. Juratores dicunt quod quidam Willelmus de Colevill' senior aliquo tempore tenuit predicta tenementa in feodo et habuit duos filios scilicet quendam Willelmum de Colevill' patrem ipsius Gilberti antenatum et quendam Radulfum postnatum. Et dicunt quod predictus Willelmus