NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. £13 



William Rankell of the same, Thomas Rankell of the same, 

 Nicholas, clerk of Bradwell, and Robert son of William of 

 the same, who say that the said Hugh on the day of his 

 death held a certain water-mill at Brough, in chief, of our 

 Lord the King, by the service of carrying a lanar falcon* 

 to the court of our Lord the King in the season, at the 

 King's charge, whilst he shall dwell there, except that he shall 

 have his own proper horse when he comes to offer his service, 

 which horse, if he die, shall be made good to him by the King. 

 And the mill is worth jQg 6s. 8d. per annum. Item, they say 

 that the said Hugh had on the day of his death a certain manor 

 at Hasselbach, with edifices and enclosures, and it is worth eleven 

 and a half marks per ann. Itm, he had in demesne five 

 bovates of land worth six shillings the bovate yearly. Itm, he 

 had in bondage sixteen bovates of plough-land, worth six shillings 

 the bovate yearly. Itm, in free tenants six shillings. Itm, 

 • Loth mifierie,'-\- worth lo shillings. Itm, profits of court worth 

 half a mark. Itm, herbage in a certain wood they value at 40 pence. 

 There is a certain mill at Haselbach, enclosed, worth 20s. per 

 annum. Itm, the said Hugo had from a certain freehold in 

 Wardlow, six shillings. Itm, they say that the said Hugh held 

 the said Manor of Haselbach of Mr. Robert de Stredley, by 

 homage, and the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. 



* Lanar Falcon. — Giraldus Cambrensis writes: — " Ireland produces no 

 falcons but those of noble breed. The ignoble species, vulgarly called 

 ' layner,' are not found here." In old books of falconry, hawks had their 

 gradations of rank. The gerfalcon was the royal bird ; the peregrine was 

 appropriated to an earl ; the sakyr to a knight ; merlin to a lady ; laner to an 

 esquire ; hoby to a gentleman of the first rank ; gosshawk to a veoman ; a 

 sparrow hawk to a priest ; and a kestrel to a knave." — (Bohn's edit., p. 42). 

 Vide " DuCange's Glossary," iv., 37, under " 2 Lanarii," where he writes that 

 some derive the name from laniena, a butcher's stall, because of its tearing or 

 dissecting habit : " sed alii Jl pilis lance similibus etymon deducunt." 



t A tenure of lead mining under which the King claimed every thirteenth 

 dish. Of this Ducange writes :— " ' Lot ' or ' Loth ' which the King of 

 England received from lead mines situated in Royal demesne, was the 

 thirteenth dish, as appears from two deeds given by Thomas Blount, anno. 9 

 Ed. I. ' Ralph de Wyne made a certain enclosure on the land of our Lord 

 tlie King in Tadington and Priestclive in making a lead mine, whence the King 

 was accustomed to receive " le Lot mineris," that is the thirteenth vase.' 

 And again, 16 Ed. L, 'From a profitable mine held in fee of our Lord the 

 King he had for his lordship the thirteenth dish, which is called ' Le Loth.' " — 

 ("Glossary," iv., 274.) 

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