140 THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
The Bailiff of Morleston was therefore ordered to make inquisition into the 
fact, and return it to the next County Court. 
William de Derleye and six others who had sued the Abbot came and 
acknowledged themselves to be villains at this Court, 
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William son of Henry and thirteen other tenants who had sued the Abbot 
at the same Court, withdrew their plea; they and their sureties for the pro- 
secution were therefore ‘‘ in misericordia.” 
On the gth August the Abbot held a Court at Finderne. William de 
Derley, born at Heanor, came and acknowledged himself to be the Abbot’s 
native, holding at the will of the Abbot in villenage two bovates, and giving 
*«Stuch” every year and ‘‘ Marchetum,”’* and on account of ancient customs 
two hens at Xmas and 20 eggs at Easter; and because he came freely 
(‘‘ gratis’’?) he retained his lands as he formerly held them; and he gave for 
his transgression half a mark, and he swore fealty, and that he would come 
and go at the will of the Abbot. 
William son of William atte Chirchestile came and acknowledged himself 
to be the Abbot’s native as above, and for his transgression, and for two 
bovates of land which his father had held, and which Nicholas Orgar held, he 
made a fine of 3 marks, and he would do all as the aforesaid William (de 
Derley). 
Thirty other tenants named submit and are re-admitted into their holdings 
in the same way at this Court. 
The land of Alienora, the widow of Nicholas de Brunlaston, was committed 
to Richard fitz Robert, Nicholas Orgar, and Thomas le Halfweni to support 
the said Alienora, and for which they were to pay 10s. annually. At the same 
Court, Agnes the daughter of Henry Babon came and acknowledged herself to 
be a native of the Abbot, and made fine of 3 marks for 2 bovates of land, and 
gave half a mark for license to marry Henry de Henore, and made oath as the 
others. 
On the Vigil of the Assumption three more of the tenants submitted, 
amongst them Henry son of Nicholas, the ringleader of the malcontents. 
On the 13th September Richard Champiun and William son of Dobbe were 
conducted to Burton and put into the stocks (in compede) from the morning 
till vespers, which they prayed for pardon with great humility, acknowledging 
themselves to be the Abbot’s villains. They were released for that night, and 
in the morning on the morrow they voluntarily submitted themselves again to 
* Stuch appears to have been a manorial duty at corn' harvest, when the 
best sheaf was claimed by the lord. Marchetum, or Maid’s Fee, was a 
customary payment to the lord on the marriage of a tenant’s daughter.—Ep. 
