The English Nobility In the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community by Chris Given-Wilson

The English Nobility In the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community by Chris Given-Wilson

Author:Chris Given-Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2011-07-31T16:00:00+00:00


We wish and order you to let to farm all the lands and tenements newly-assarted in our lordship of Knaresborough, so that you and the tenants of these lands can make reasonable agreements about them; and that all the tenants who refuse to take the said lands in such manner you should eject from them, and let the lands and tenements go to others who are willing to give more. And concerning our demesne lands, escheats and wastes around the towns of Knaresborough, Auldeburgh and Roucliff, which could be let to farm to our greater profit, and which are not at present, we order you to have them put at their true annual value without sparing anyone in this matter. And besides this, that all the foreign people [i.e. not tenants of the duke] who do not hold from us and who until now have taken common wood and turbary [turf] in our said forest by sufferance of the ministers who were there in the time of my very honoured mother the queen, should in future be prohibited such common [fuel] as reason demands; and also that all our tenants of the said forest who hold any assart should not in future take any common [fuel] because of such tenure, but only on the lands and tenements which belong to them by ancient tenure. At the Savoy, 15 February [1375].11



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