Earnwood Manor Accounts 1383-4

This set of accounts for the manor of Earnwood were drawn up when Earnwood was in the hands of the King as it's owner, Roger de Mortimer was still a child. The structure of the accounts is very similar to that of 1373-4.

The original version of these accounts is in the National Archives (SC 6/967/5). We are grateful to Dr Syliva Watts and the Odericus Vitalis Local History Latin group for this translation.

Account of Adam atte Hull bailiff of Roger Mortimer and his associates, keepers of the manor there by letters patent of the king from the feast of St. Michael the Archangel until the same feast then next following, to wit in the eighth of the said king for one whole year.

Arrears
The same answers for £11 4s 2d for rents of assize there at the terms of St. Martin and the Birth of st. John the Baptist by equal portions, whereof 2d of the new rent of William Elf.
Sum £11 4s 2d

Sale of works
And for 3s 4d from 10 ploughing works at the season of winter and Lent from the profits of the customary tenants sold, the price of a work 4d. And for 2s from 24 harvest works from the profit of the same sold, the price of a work 1d halfpenny.
Sum 6s 4d for the year

Profits of the manor
For the pasture of Limepit Field, the herbage of this manor, the fruit and herbage of the gardens of the same, nor from the profit of the dovecote in the same he answers for nothing because they are demised at farm as below to lord Brian de Cornwall. And for 12d from the lease of a stand of osiers near the Severn sold this year to Adam atte Hull for the term of Michaelmas. For old trees nor from wood felled by the wind nothing this year because there was none. And from 20s from the lease of the pasture of the park with Culvermede as leased to John Horwood, park keeper there this year, and the said lessee keeps deer in winter and will sufficiently enclose the said meadow. And for 3s beyond the tithe of the pannage of pigs in the park there. And for 14s 5d from the pannage of pigs in Ernewood besides the tithe by the rolls of the court.
Sum 38s 5d for the year

Leases
And for 30s from the lease of Brian de Cornwall knight for a garden of this manor and a dovecot in the same with free ingress and egress to the same and for a close called Limepit Field and all the meadows near the Severn belonging to the same manor as leased by the year to the said Brian at the terms of the Annunciation and St. Michael equally from the feast of St. Michael the said year the 6th until the legal age of any heir of the said Earl by indenture made between William de Ford clerk assigned to demise of this at farm and the said Brian.
Sum 30s for the year

Perquisites of court
And for 10d from perquisites of 4 courts held this year.
Sum 10d

Sum of the whole receipt £14 19s 9d for the year

Allowances and defaults of rent
Thus he accounts in allowances of the rent of the reeve for his office this year 6s 8d. And in default of the rent of 1 messuage formerly of William atte Londe because in the hand of the lord and lies within the chase by the same 2d, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of a tenement formerly of Julian Black for the same reason 6d for the year, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of 3 crofts lying in Seligrene formerly of Richard Scot because in hand 23d by the year, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of 1 parcel of meadow and one grove formerly of William Blakemore enclosed in the park at the accustomed terms 3s 2d by the year. And in default of the rent of Laurencecroft because in the hand of the lord for default of a lessee 6d, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of 1 plot of land formerly of Robert Dawson for the same reason 2d by the year, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of the land called Russellscroft whereof nothing was raised this year 12d. And in default of the rent of 1 cottage formerly of Thomas le Roo and afterwards of Richard Wynnewood because in the hand of the lord beyond 12d thus raised this year 2d. And in default of the rent of Huntesland in the hand of the lord this year 12, whereof the profit nothing. And in default of the rent of land called Ilgersland in the hand of the lord, whereof the profit nothing this year 3s 6d. And in default of the rent of a field called Wild Field which John ?Durderns formerly held in the hand of the lord this year, whereof the profit nothing 5s. And in default of the rent of Colierscroft in the hand of the lord for the same time beyond 12d thus raised this year 12d because ?at rent.
Sum 34s 9d

Costs of the houses
And in two tilers hired for 33 days for tiling and mending all faults of the houses of the manor this year 22s, each taking by the day 4d. And in bordnails and lathnails bought for the said work 6d.
Sum 22s 6d

Costs of the park
And in the wage of 1 workman for 28 days for felling timber and splitting pales and putting them in places where it was necessary and also for mending various faults of the old pale of the close of the park there this year 9s 4d, taking by the day 4d. And in the carriage of the pales to various places of the park, to wit 10 carriages with oxen 4s 2d, for each carriage 5d.
Sum 13s 6d

Expenses of the steward
And in the expenses of Philip Holcote steward holding courts there at Highley and Arley this year 6s 8d by the rolls of the court.
Sum 6s 8d

Payment of money
And paid to Roger Partrich of Dorstone, receiver
of the lordship of Wigmore 103s 4d by tally
And to the same by the hands of William
Walshale, deputy keeper of the chace there, to 14s 5d without
wit from the pannage tally

Sum of the total allowances, expenses and payments £9 3s 10d; and he owes 113s 11d.

Of which the said Adam is respited in his account of the year the next following under the heading of arrears. And thus here is quit.

Hens
For hens from purchase and custom, of which each having hens sells to the lord from the issue 1 hen for 1d by custom at the feast of the Birth of the Lord, nothing this year because nothing will have been of value beyond the repayment.

Ploughing works
And for 10 ploughing works arising from the custom of 5 outside tenants, to wit: John Bryan, William le Macer, Roger Longlong, Richard Deuxhill and John Foxcote, of whom each will plough for one day at the season of Lent and for one day in the season of winter, having common with their beasts in the wood of Wyre, the price of a work 4d. And it happens more and less according as there are more outside tenants occupying common without a break.
Sum 10 ploughing works; and they are sold as above and equal.

Harvest works
And for 21 harvest works arising from 7 customary tenants, of which each will reap the lords corn for 3 days, the price of a work 1d halfpenny. And for 6 works of the custom of the tenants of the prior of Malvern.
Sum 27 works


For which he accounts in default of the works of a tenement formerly of John Osebern because in the hand of the lord and lies empty in the wood 3 works. And in the sale as within 24 works.
Sum as above; and equal.