1301-08-10, Peebles

Cancelled on payment. of release by Roger de Taney, son and heir of Sir Richard Taney, made when of full age to Benedict de Cokefeud and Avicia, wife, and to the heirs and assigns of Benedict of his right after the of his father or of Richard de Skeitone in the manor of Cokayne in town of Elmesstede, with all appurtenances and liberties: to have and of the releasor and of his heirs, but so that he and his heirs shall be able to exact anything in the tenements or liberties except a of roses at Midsummer yearly. For this release Benedict and paid him 60/. Witnesses: Nicholas Gernoun of Manitre, John le of Misteleie, Stephen (?) le Afete of the same, John de Bromleie Henry Kaperoun of Manitre, Thomas de Stebbinge of Misteleie, de la Rivere of Manitre, Robert le Mount of Lalleforde, John Rosse Edmund son of Geoffrey de Misteleie. Dated at Lalleforde, Friday after St. James, 29 Edward. that Roger de Taney came into chancery, on 11 August, acknowledged the aforesaid deed, and that it was done in Benedict Avicia s seisin of the manor. Schedule. of Joan de Cantilupo acknowledging receipt from Sir William de her brother, of 80 marks, in which he was bound to her by a in chancery, and granting that the recognisance shall be and annulled, MEMBRANE Td. Enrolment of an inquisition taken at Torpel before William de Carleton, Walter de Gloucestr ia] and John de Kirkeby, on Wednesday in Easter week, to wit, 5 April, 29 Edward, concerning the marriage of John, son 4 and heir of Geoffrey de Suthorp, and also the marriage of Walter, son and heir of Walter de Offord, which heirs are in the wardship of the abbot of Peterborough, the marriages of whom the abbot asserts ought to pertain to him and not to the king, because the said Geoffrey and Walter and their ancestors held of his predecessors in Peterborough and Stokes near Undele by knight service long before the said Geoffrey and Walter held anything of John Camoys in Loholm, which is held of the manor of Torpel, which is now in the king's hands, as to whether Geoffrey and Walter or their ancestors were first enfeoffed to hold of the abbot's predecessors or of the said John or his ancestors etc. by the oath of Hugh de Gorham, Robert de Veer, Henry de Tychemersh, William Jordan, Nicholas de Sancto Marco, John de Folkesworth, Peter de Burlee, William de Pieworth, Henry le Lord, William Walrand, John Lucas and John de Adington, jurors; who say upon their oath that Geoffrey de Suthorp held at his death certain tenements in Suthorp, Gunthorp, Hemmyngton and Stokes of the abbot by the service of three knights fees, and that his ancestors held them of the abbot's predecessors by the same services from time out of mind, and they say that Geoffrey acquired in the fifth year of the present king from Ralph de Loholm a messuage and two carucates of land in the town of Loholm by the service of half a knight's fee, to be held of the said manor of Torpel and by suit at the court of that manor from three weeks to three weeks. They also say that Walter de Offord held at his death a messuage and half a virgate of land in Peterborough of the abbot of Peterborough by the service of the twentieth of a knight's fee; and that Thomas de Offord, Walter's ancestor, and other his ancestors held the same tenements of the predecessors of the abbot by the same service from time out of mind, to wit before the time of King Richard, and afterwards in the time of the said King Richard, Thomas was steward of Peterborough and then acquired certain tenements in parcels from divers persons in the town of Offord, to be held of the chief lords of the fee of the manor of Torpel by the service of 2s. and of half a pound of cumin yearly and by doing suit at the court of the manor of Torpel from three weeks to three weeks, and so that he should render to scutage 2s. 11d. when the scutage is at 40s. and more or less when it is above or below tbat sum, and 7d. for the custody of the castle of Rokingham and for the sherifi s aid, to be received by the hands of the abbot's bailiffs of Peterborough, who hold the hundred of Nass (de Nasso), which 7d. the bailiffs of the manor of Torpel shall receive from Walter and his heirs and shall pay that sum to the abbot's bailiff in form aforesaid. And therefore the abbot shall make his profit of the marriage of the said heirs.