Ancient Charters - H.Round

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Ancient Charters - H.Round

Legg inn av paul bulkley » 07 sep 2005 03:00:02

Horace Round included an interesting Charter issued
1120-1122 being a Grant by Ralph, Archbishop of
Canterbury to Lewes Priory of an annual render of
thirty six loads of beans, known as "circescet" from
his Archiepiscopal Manor of Pagham.

Round points out that the interest of the charter
applies to the subject "cirescet". He says that this
notoriously obscure due is described by Dr Stubbs as
"a sort of commutation for first-fruits paid by every
householder" (Const.Hist.i 229) The best account of
it, however, will be found in the special index on the
question in Kemble's "Anglo Saxons in England".

It occurs, under various spellings, some dozen times
in Domesday, but not in the case of Pagham, though the
account of that manor is a full one. The inference is
that the silence of Domesday nowhere proves its non
existence. At Pagham it probably was, at the time of
the Survey, included in the total render ("redditus"),
but subsequently retained in hand (i.e. excluded from
the firma) by Archbishop Ralph. In Domesday we find
the due generally commuted for money.

In Worcestershire, however, it was paid in kind, and,
as here at Pagham, in loads ("sumae annonae"), one
being due from each hide. Here the rate was nearly the
same, Pagham having been assessed at fifty, and then
at thirty four hides.

The grant also illustrates the power of a life tenant
of ecclesiastical property over manors held "in
dominio".

Yours sincerely,

Paul Bulkley




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