37. PIPE ROLL OF 33 HENRY II (1187)
(A) Entries Concerning Scutage
From the scutage of the knights of Lincolnshire who did not depart with the king for the army of Galloway. The bishop of Lincoln renders account of £60 of scutage for his knights of the old enfeoffment, which he acknowledges he owes the king.... Oliver d'Aincourt owes £35 of scutage for his knights. Martin Martel renders account of 5s. for the fourth of a knight's fee.... William de Berville renders account of 3s. 4d. for the sixth of a knight's fee....
Yorkshire.... Laurence, archdeacon of Bedford, and Master Roger Arundel render account of £20 of scutage for the knights of the archbishopric of York, which the archbishop acknowledges he owes the king.[1] They have paid it into the treasury. And they are quit. The same men render account of £27. 9s. 8d. for the knights which the archbishop does not acknowledge he owes the king, but which are accounted for because the archbishopric is in the king's hands. In the treasury £24. 9s. 8d. And they owe 60s....
Gloucestershire.... Hugh Bardolf renders account of £327. 3s. of scutage for the knights of the honour of the earl of Gloucester, both of the old enfeoffment and of the new, for which account is rendered because the honour is in the king's hands. In the treasury £207. 8s. 10d. And in pardons by the king's writ.[2]... And in demesnes of the king, from which he has tallage, £6. And in pardons by the king's writ to the barons of the said honour enfeoffed in Wales £41. 15s. And he owes £62. 2s. 6d....
Devonshire.... The bishop of Exeter renders account of £15. 10s. of scutage for his knights, which he acknowledges he owes the king. He has paid it into the treasury. And he is quit. The same man owes £18. 2s. 4d. for the knights which he does not acknowledge. Walter, abbot of Tavistock, renders account of £16 of scutage for the knights which he acknowledges....
Cornwall.... Agnes, who was wife of Walter Hay, renders account of £12. 10s. of scutage for twenty knights: namely, 12s. 6d. for each knight.... Nicholas Fitz-Geoffrey renders account of £6. 5s. of scutage for ten knights with small fees.... William Fitz-Richard renders account of 62s. 6d. of scutage for five knights in the manner aforesaid....
(Latin) Pipe Roll of 33 Henry II, pp. 75 f.
(B) Entries Concerning Tallage
From the tallage of the king's demesnes and the lands which were then in his hands in Norfolk. The same sheriff renders account of 100s. from the contribution (donum) of Cawston.[3]... The same sheriff renders account of 4m. from the vill of Eresham.... The same sheriff renders account of £7. 10s. from the half-hundred of Eresham.... The same sheriff renders account of £25. 13s. 4d. from Yarmouth.... The same sheriff renders account of £93. 16s. 8d. from the contribution of Norwich.... The same sheriff renders account of 1m. from two men of the king dwelling in Clacklose Hundred....
Suffolk.... The same sheriff renders account of 2m. from Holbrook.... The same sheriff renders account of 2m. from Dunningworth.... The same sheriff renders account of 40s. from Little Framingham.... The same sheriff renders account of £20. 16s. 8d. from the contribution of Oreford.... The same sheriff renders account of £16 from Ipswich.... The same sheriff renders account of £30. 6s. 4d. from Lothingland.... The same sheriff renders account of £4. 13s. 4d. from the contribution of Eye.... The burgesses of Dunwich [owe] 100m. from the contribution promised by them in common....
Lincolnshire.... From the tallage of the demesnes and lands which were then in the king's hands, [assessed] by Geoffrey de Lucy and Jocelyn, archdeacon of Chichester, and William le Vavasseur. The same sheriff renders account of £45. 15s. from the contribution of Grimsby together with the soke.... The same sheriff renders account of £31. 6s. 8d. from Caistor together with the soke.... The same sheriff renders account of 46s. 8d. from Stallingborough, demesne of the archbishopric [of York].... The same sheriff renders account of 40s. from Benningworth, land of the archbishop.... The men of Sixhills and Henton owe 2m. of contribution. The same sheriff renders account of 103s. from Torksey.... The same sheriff renders account of 40s. from Surfleet, which belonged to Helpe the Crossbowman.... The citizens of Lincoln owe £176. 4s. from the contribution assessed by the justices on individual men....
Yorkshire.... The same sheriff renders account of £226. 6s. 4d. from the contribution of the city of York, assessed by the justices on the men of the same city except the moneyers....
(Latin) Ibid., pp. 59 f.
(C) Entries Concerning Profits of Justice
Northamptonshire.... From the pleas of Ranulf de Glanville,. Jocelyn the Archdeacon, Thomas of Hurstbourne, and Michael Belet. The same sheriff renders account of 3s. 4d. from the amercement of Adam of Newton because he did not have the man for whom he was surety.... William of Stanford renders account of 8m., because, while he was serjeant of the hundred, he did not present to the sheriff a crown plea that had earlier been presented to him.... Ralph of the Churchyard renders account of 4s. 8d. for the flight of Richard.... Simon the Dean renders account of ½m. because he detained a [certain] man's slayers who were not in frankpledge.... The same sheriff renders account of 35s. from Sutton Hundred for a murder.[4]... Richard Blere renders account of 5s. 8d. for purpresture.[5]... Peter, son of Adam, renders account of 75m. for the same and because he took a certain woman and tortured her without the king's licence.... The burgesses of Northampton render account of 20m. for the concealment of a crown plea.[6] ... Reginald, reeve of Weddon, owes ½m. because he first denied what he afterwards acknowledged.... Ralph of Aldewine renders account of ½m. for a false claim.... William Caperum owes ½m. for false measure. Ralph, son of Bernard, renders account of ½m. because he withdrew [from his suit].... Item, from offerings to the court. Hugh Ridel renders account of £93. 6s. 8d. to have such seisin of his land of Withering as he had when Peter de Saint-Médard died.... Gilbert de Wanleville owes 40s. for a recognition against William de Bere concerning sixteen virgates of land as to whether it is gage or fee. Geoffrey Brito renders account of 15m. for the wife whom he married without the king's licence when she was in the gift of the king.... Robert Reval renders account of 10m. that he may have in the king's court his suit against Adam Fitz-Warin concerning eight virgates of land in Cosgrove....
Hampshire.... From the pleas of the forest [held] by Geoffrey Fitz-Peter. The same sheriff renders account of 25s. from the demesnes of the bishop and the prior of Winchester for transgression of the assize of the forest.[7]... Walter Waleran renders account of 2s. for an escape.... Robert d'Aumale renders account of 20s. for bows and arrows [kept] against the assize.... The same sheriff renders account of 56s. 10d. for wastes, assarts, purprestures, and pleas of the forest of Hampshire.... The prioress of Amesbury owes 3s. for vert.
London.... Bruno the Jew owes £340 of the amercement of 2000m. for which he fined with the king at Waltham.[8] Aaron the Jew of Lincoln owes 500m. of the same fine. But he is dead and the king has his chattels.... The Jews of England owe 5525½m. of amercement for Jurnet of Norwich, whose charters they have in order to acquit him....
Norfolk.... Spreggi renders account of 100m, for not arresting Robert as the justices ordered.... William Fitz-William of Lynn renders account of 2m. for a recognition concerning the advowson of the church of Lynn.[9]
Lincolnshire.... Benedict Clarizia renders account of 20m. of amercement for the hauberk that his wife took in pledge contrary to the prohibition.[10] ... Robert de Hardre owes 1m. of gold for recognition concerning two carucates of land in Hadley, as to whether it is free fee of the church or lay [fee].[11]...
Yorkshire.... The bishop of Durham owes 500m. because he held in the court Christian a plea concerning the advowson of a certain church.[12]... Robert of Sanford owes 40s. for recognition of his father's death with regard to the land of Ecclesfield, as against Reginald de Lucy. Ralph de Clare renders account of £80 to have the king's benevolence....
Sussex.... Robert of Badbury renders account of £35. 9s. 10d. for disseisin against the assize.... The bishop of Chichester renders account of 10m. because he hunted without licence in woods of the king's escheat.... Warner de Sumery renders account of 20s. for right[13] concerning the service from one virgate of land in Bixley, as against Gilbert of Balliol, ...
Essex and Hertfordshire.... The abbess of Barking owes 20m. for 180 oaks cut down in the forest against the assize.... Ralph of Dene owes 10s. for dogs [kept] against the assize.... Edwin Scaldhot renders account of 20d. because he unjustly vexed the jurors....
Staffordshire.... Guy de Suinfen renders account of 1m. for having in the king's court his suit against Henry de Pirie, which was in the county [court]....
Wiltshire.... The same sheriff owes 18d. from Kinwardstone Hundred for a murder and failure to prove Englishry.[14]... Walter de Saint-Germain renders account of 40s. for an investigation of the truth concerning the marriage of Margaret, wife of Ralph, his brother....
Berkshire.... The same sheriff renders account of 2½m. from the vill of Letcombe because it received without frankpledge an unknown man who had slain five men.... Midwinter owes 20s. because it received a man who was not in frankpledge....
(Latin) Ibid., pp. 103 f., 197 f., etc.
[1] The barons, especially the great ecclesiastics, refused to admit that they owed any service beyond that anciently charged against their fiefs, no matter how many knights they had subinfeudated. So, as may be seen from the entries below, the king often failed to collect all the assessed scutage, unless the honour was in his hands. See Round, Feudal England, pp. 242 f.
[2] Sums totalling £9. 16s. 8d. pardoned to five persons.
[3] About half of the assessed sum is normally paid into the treasury, with the remainder left for the following year.
[4] See above, p. 36, n. 2.
[5] See above, p. 88, n. 9.
[6] That is to say, for failure to make presentation.
[7] For this and the following items, see no. 35.
[8] In connection with these entries, cf. no. 40A.
[9] See no. 33D.
[10] See no. 34, art. 7.
[11] See no. 33C.
[12] See no. 30, art. I.
[13] See no. 33E.
[14] See no. 26, art. 92.