142 THE BURTON CHARTULARY, 
return whether “‘ utrum predictum manerium in manus predicti Abbatis existens 
aliquo tempore hamelettum predecessorum ipsius Abbatis et homines in eodem 
hameletto residentes fuissent nec ne, et si etc. tunc quo tempore et qualiter et 
quo modo et si iidem residentes qui tunc fuerunt, fuissent liberi tenentes ipsius 
Abbatis an nativi sui, et si liberi tenentes, tunc de quo tenuerunt et per quod 
servitium et qualiter et quo modo et quo tempore hamelettum predictum primo 
devenit ad manus Abbatis loci predicti. Et si iidem homines dum in hame- 
letto predicto residebant hujus* francumplegium invenire solebant nec ne, et si 
sic, tunc qualiter et quo modo et ad que et qualia presentando et ubi etc.” 
[The inquisition was taken at Ashburne on the morrow of the Apostles SS. 
Peter and Paul, 17 E. II., and stated that Roger de Huncyndon, formerly lord 
of the hamlet of Huncyndon, had enfeoffed Laurence, Abbot of Burton, of a 
messuage and eighty acres of land in the said hamlet, which he held in demesne 
in the time of King Henry the grandfather of the present King, to be held by 
him and his successors of Robert.de Thorp his lord by the service of 2d. 
annually ; and the same Abbot afterwards acquired from Robert de Thorp the 
rent in question, and the service of seven free tenants of the said hamlet, who 
‘Cattorned ” themselves to the said Abbot for the same services ; and all the 
aforesaid tenants rendered to the lord of the Wapentake 2s. 3d. ‘‘ad pale- 
fridum ;” and the said tenants found a frankpledge (‘* unum francumpleggium”) 
to make presentments at the said Wapentake of Wyrkesworth in co. Derby 
every three weeks respecting the infractions of the assize of bread and beer and 
effusions of blood, and the raising of hue and cry and wayfs when such 
occurred, and all other matters which pertained to the view of frankpledge. 
Also that all the said tenants were accustomed to plough with one ‘‘ caruca” 
once a year at Lent for the lord of the Wapentake, who found them food, or 
else they gave 1}@., and they had to find a man to sow oncea year in the 
autumn, or they gave a farthing. And afterwards the Abbot Thomas, the 
successor of the Abbot Laurence, acquired all the said lands and tenements 
which the said tenants held, to hold in demesne as of fee by the license of 
King Edward the father of the present King, and to be held of the capital 
lords of the fee; and after the said Abbot Thomas had thus acquired all 
the hamlet, which they now call a manor, he found no frankpledge, be- 
cause there were no tenants resident in the said manor. And they say 
that Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, had caused the Abbot John to be 
amerced, and also the Abbot William, in the sum of £16 at various times, 
because they would not find a frankpledge to make presentments at the 
aforesaid Wapentake (‘‘eo quod noluerunt invenire unum francumpleggium 
ad presentandum ad predictum Wapentakum ut supra, ratione manerii sui 
de Huncyndon”), and that the plea between the said Earl and the Abbot was 
* Sic, but should be unum. 
