Feb. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1855. 



ANCIENT CHATTEL PROPERTY IN IRELAND. 



(Vol. ix., p. 394.) 



The following extracts, which have been made 

 from several of the records of the Irish Exche- 

 quer, afford some information upon the cost of 

 personal property in Ireland at an early period of 

 time, and they also convey to us some idea 

 " Of manners long since changed and gone." 

 Amongst the fragments of Irish records re- 

 cently brought to Dublin from Switzerland, I 

 find a remnant of a Plea Roll of the 18 Edward I., 

 containing an entry stating that Nicholas, Arch- 

 bishop of Armagh, was accused of taking two cows 

 worth 5s. each, and two bullocks (juveiicas) worth 

 2s, each, the property of Henry Kenefeg. By 

 other fragments of Irish records, also brought 

 from Switzerland, and apparently of the reign 

 of F^dward IT., it appears that a knight named 

 Waleys and Nicholas Habrahara broke into the 

 " cameram sacerdotum " of the church of St. 

 Patrick at Cashel, and stole therefrom four cran- 

 nocks of wheat worth 20.9. eacli ; that Stephen 

 Laweles robbed Hugh Northwyche of a heifer 

 worth 5s., of sixty gallons of ale worth 15a'., of 

 two bushels of wheat, " unam falmgam et unum 

 capucium," worth 11* ; that William Stafford, the 

 king's sergeant, with others, robbed Roger le Bret 

 of a heifer (juvenca), worth 40d., "de uno arcu et 

 uno glaneto " (value di^faced), and of tliree sheep 

 worth 8d. each; that Robert Brown robbed Henry 

 Spencer of eighteen pigs worth 1 mark, John the 

 chaplain of two cows worth 1 mark, and of a heifer 

 worth 40d., and that he also robbed John Manery 

 of a cow and a heifer wortli 1 mark. It farther ap- 

 pears by these fragments of the reign of Edward II., 

 that a horse was then valued, sometimes at a mark, 

 and at other times at 405., a shoep " bidentem " at 

 12d., a pig at 2s., and six crannocks of wheat at 6^. 



It also appears by the same fragments that 

 Geoffrey Harold, vicar of Grene, robbed a woman 

 who was going towards Limerick of " unam fa- 

 lmgam " worth 12r/. ; that two members of the 

 family of de Londres robbed John le Fleiuyng 

 of ten crannocks " bladi mixti et uno crannoco 

 trasei avenas," and that they also robbed William 

 Bagod of twenty crannocks of wheat and twenty- 

 eight crannocks of oats worth 20Z. ; that Robert 

 Fitz John Swayn robbed John Fitz Adam of 

 twelve cows worth 10 marks, and thirteen "af- 

 fris" worth 6 marks; that "una oUa enea " was 

 worth 126?.; that two tunicks were worth 4s., a 

 gown 3s., four salmon 2s., nine cows 6^., twelve 

 cows 12 marks, and half a crannock of wheat 8s. 



In the 4 Edward II. the goods of William the 

 clerk of Newcastle of Lyons were found to con- 



sist of sixteen crannocks of wheat worth 6s. 

 each, of sixteen crannocks of oats worth 4s, 6d. 

 each, a haycock worth 10s., three cows and two 

 calves worth 8s, each, thirty-two "bidentes" worth 

 lOd. each, one "affrum" worth 2s., fourteen pigs 

 worth 18c?. each, three and a half acres of " hasti- 

 nell," sown, worth 8s, an acre, three crannocks of 

 beans worth 6s. each, and one crannock of peas 

 worth 4s. 6d. 



In the 26 Edward III. the following articles, 

 being the property of one Walter de Berming- 

 ham, were delivered by the treasurer of the 

 Exchequer to Robert de Preston, for the benefit 

 of his the said Walter's son when of full age : 



s. d. 



" Una galea ove le barber pro hastiludio - 20 



Una selda pro eodem - - - - - 15 



Unum par' de plates - - - - - 6 8 



Unum bresteplate - - - - - 3 4 



Unum saccam pro eodem - - - - 5 



Un mayn de f'erre - - - - - 20 



Un cbapel de ferre - - - - - 10 



Ifn rerebrase - - - - - -0 12 



Un estofF pro una lancea - - - - 18 



Un aketoii - - - - - - -66 8" 



By the Memoranda Roll of the 48 & 49 Ed- 

 ward III., memb. 45 face, it appears that one 

 Maurice Laweles of Le Bre (hodie Bray), near 

 Dublin, had nine acres of wheat, each acre of the 

 price of 4s. ; seven acres of oats, price 40(/. per 

 acre; a horse worth a mark, and a sow and six- 

 teen little pigs worih 3s., within the said manor. 



In the 2 Richard III., William Brian of Drom- 

 conragh, a chaplain, robbed Stephen Patrick of 

 " duas tunicas virorum panni Anglici " worth 

 13s. 4d., and "unam falingam " worth 40^. In 

 the 1 Richard III. James Cruys robbed Thomas 

 Saresfeld of eight yards of cloth, called " asay,*' 

 worth 13s. 4fi?., and " de uno instrumento ferri," 

 called " brandirne," worth 20d. 



By the Memoranda Roll of the 1 1 Henry IV., 

 mem. 15 dorso, it appears that John Frampton, 

 of the city of Dublin, the king's debtor, had 

 twenty-eiyht " nobilia auri et unum anulum auri 

 precii," 20d., which he gave to William Botiller, a 

 chaplain, to distribute for his soul ; that he also 

 possessed "unum parvum anulum aureum" worth 

 20d., which he also gave "pro anima sua;" he 

 also possessed "aliquod anulum aureum cum una 

 margarita vocata saffire " worth 20d. By another 

 entry upon the same Roll, membrane 12 dorso, it 

 appears that he also possessed " unus anulus 

 aureus cum una margarita vocata dyamount " 

 worth 20s., " unum nobile auri et unus anulus 

 aureus " worth 40^/. 



In the 6 Edward IV., Richard Broun, a chap- 

 lain, robbed Robert Cusake of Cosyngeston of a 

 horse worth 5 marks, and in the 1 Richard HI., 

 William Stevenot, the prior of All Saints, near 

 Dublin, at Rathlege, robbed Richard Pheypowe 

 of three bushels of wheat worth 3s. In 2 Ri- 



