state as a Bannaret, for his services against the Scots. The landed revenue of few of the nobility exceeded that sum annually; which ascertains the dignity of that description of knighthood, and the king's gratitude*.

1373. The office of Chirographer in the King's Bench to John Woodroffe, the King's Confessor, to whom, in 1361, had been granted a fee of 691. a-year, for himself, his servants, and horses +.

1374. The king grants to Alice Perrers, late one of the maids of Philippa, late Queen of England, all the jewels, goods, and chattels, of the said queen, for her own proper use, &c. A memorable instance of injustice and dotage!!! Queen Philippa left five daughters to have inherited them.

1400. Grant to Thomas Flaxman, of a certain gown of motley velvet, of damask with furs, which belonged to Thomas Lord Despenser, in which gown Thomas was taken without the house of the Mayor of Bristol §.

* 29 Edw. III. m. 2. Rex concess. Ricardo de Coupeland in feodo pro servitiis suis versus Scotos diversa maneria terr. et costum. ad valentiam quingent. lib. per ann ad manutenendum statum Baʼneretti. +34 Edw. III. m. 28. 46 Edw. III. m. . . Officium Chirograph.

de Communi Banco.

47 Edw. III. m. 23. R. conc. Alicæ Perrers, nuper uni domicellarum Philippæ nuper reginæ, omnia jocalia, bona, et catalla, quæ fuerunt ipsius Philippæ, ad proprium usum.

§ 1 Hen. IV. p. 5. m. 8. R. conc. Will. Flaxman quandam togam de motley-velvet de damaske furratum, quæ nuper fuit Thomæ Dni. Despenser, in quâ quidem togâ idem Thomas extra dom. Majoris de Bristol captus extitit.

1459. The King created Richard Benwell Pursuivant of Arms, by putting on a collar*.

1478. The King, in person, crowned John More, Norroy, with a fee of 20 marcs a-yeart.

1449. William Brocas had a grant of Weldon Parva, in Northamptonshire, by grand serjeanty of being master of the king's buckhounds, and of maintaining 24 hounds and six greyhounds, with 501. per annum out of the counties of Surrey and Sussex ..

Miscellaneous.

1230. § Licence to Robert Tateshall, to embattle his house at Tateshall, co. Linc.

1236. The third penny issuing from the. county was essential to constitute an earldom, as it was granted to Henry de Vere out of the county of Oxford.

1252. Grant to Wilbert de Rue, of a messuage

* 37 Hen. VI. 2. p. m. 19. R. creavit R. Benwell Pursuivandum suum ad arma, imponendo sibi collar', &c.

+ 18 Edw. IV. 2. p. m. 4. R. coronavit Joh'em More Norroy.

27 Hen. VI. m. 28. W. Brocas Arm. tenet manerium de Parva Weldon, co. Northampt. per magn. serjeantiam essendi magistrum canum regis vocat. "Bukkhoundes: et ad custod. 24. canes currentes et sex leporarios, ratione tenure predictæ ; cui R. pro feodis concess. hæred. masculis 50l. annuas de exitibus comitat. Surr. et Sussex.

¶ 37 Hen. III. m. 8. Reddendo unum par chirothecarum.

in Gloucester, in fee, for one pair of gloves, annually.

1252. *That the dogs belonging to the demesnes of the Abbot of Stoneleigh should not be impressed for the royal use.

1254. +The King assigns to the brethren of the gild, whose office it is to ring the great bells at Westminster, 100 shillings a-year out of the exchequer, as long as they enjoy the liberty granted to them by Edward the Confessor. ·

1318. Grant to Robert Fitz-Walter, of lands in Pennington, for the service of repairing the organ and clock in the Cathedral of Exeter.

1322. § The military age fixed between sixteen and sixty years, in an expedition against the Scots. 1360. || Paving of the King's highway from the gate of Temple Bar to the Abbey at Westminster.

1364. ¶Order for arresting painters, to work in St. Stephen's chapel at Westminster, to which artists of every description were liable, as often as the king required their services.

* 37 Hen. III. m. 15. Quod dominici canes Abbatis de Stoneleigh ac. omn. grangiar. suar. infra metas forestæ, non expeditentur. +39 Hen. III. m. 12.

11 Edw. II. m. 5. R. concess. Rob. Fitz-Walter tenem. in Pennington pro servitio pulsandi campanas, et reparanda organi et horologia in eccles. Exon.

§ 15 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 4. De hominibus inter ætates 16 et 60 annor. congregandi pro repuls. Scotor. 2 Julij apud Eborac.

|| 33 Edw. III. m. 29. Pavagium pro regali viâ à Porta de Temple-bar usq. ad Portam Abbathiæ de Westmon.

¶ 37 Edw. III. m. 10. De pictoribus arrestandis pro capellâ Sancti Stephani apud Westmon.

1369. * Safe conduct to certain artificers, clockmakers, to exercise their craft within this realm. They were probably Germans.

1415. Henry Barton, the King's valet, appointed keeper of the clock in the Palace of Westminster, with a fee of sixpence a-day.

1375, m. 31. It was necessary to procure the royal licence to embattle the towers of churches. 1382. § John Eveshain, of the King's valets, appointed keeper of the lions, and one of the valets at arms, within the Tower of London, during the King's pleasure. His predecessor was Robert Bower; but the office is of higher antiquity.

1408. ||A royal warrant to arrest all conjurors, fortune-tellers, &c.

1451. ¶ For delivering a large cannon, called "Mile-end," to Sir John Stanley, for the siege of Hornby Castle.

* Edw. III. m. 15. Salv. conduct. pro certis operatoribus horologiorum, venientibus inf. regnum, utendi artificio suo.

+1 Hen. V. 2. p. m. 7. H. Barton valectus regis habet custodiam horologii in Palat. Westm. pro vitâ suâ cum feodo 6 den. per diem.

48 Edw. III. m. 31. De campanili de Harpham kernellando.3 Ric. II. 3 p. m. 14. "Kernellare et castrum inde facere."-13 Edw. IV. m. 10. "Imbattelare ac turres facere."

§ 5 Ric. II. m 16. J. Evesham, &c. custos Leonum ac valectus armor. Regis infra turr. London.-15 Edw. III. 2. p. m. 3. Rob. Bowyer custos Leonum.

7 Hen. IV. m. 22. De arrestando sortilegos, maleficos, incantatores, negromanticos, divinatores, ariolos, et phitones, infra dioces. Lincoln.

¶ 29 Hen. VI. m. 5. De conducendo quend. cannonem vocatum Mile-end," &c.

1415. * Petition for payment to Gerard Strong for a cannon, weighing 4480 lbs., and for gunpowder.

1437. +Grant of two hogsheads of wine yearly to Joan Astley, the King's nurse.

1445. The same to Mother Fosbrooke, the King's dry-nurse.

1441. § Licence to John Schiedame to export tin without custom, on account of his having invented a method to make salt at Winchelsea. E. M. S.

SINGULAR INCIDENTS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS, FROM THE YEAR 1400 TO THE YEAR 1548.

The Apostate Jewess.

ELIZABETH, a Jewish convert, the daughter of Rabbi Moses, was allowed two-pence per day, in 1403, for being deserted by her family on account of her change as to religion.-Rym. Fœd.

It seems strange that, in 1404, the commons, after having vindicated their own privileges as to menial

* 2 Hen. V. Petitio Gerardi Sprong pro solutione pro cannon ponderant. 4480lbs., et pro pulvere bombardico.

+15 Hen. VI. Pro Johanna Astley, nutrice Reg. de concess. 2 doliorum vini annuatim.

23 Hen. VI. Pro matre Fosbrooke nutrice sicca Reg. idem. § 19 Hen. VI. Pro J. Schiedame de concess. traducendi stannum sine custumâ, intuitû inventionis salis faciendi juxta Winchelsea.