50 ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAUI>T HUCKNALT. CHURCH. 



plough-land, worth 4d. the acre, and a meadow 15s. yearly. 

 There was a park producing 9s. yearly from agistments ; also a 

 separate pasture worth 4s. per annum. The watermill was valued 

 at 30s. 8d. ; the assize rents paid by the free tenants, " natives," 

 and cottars amounted to 6s. lod. ; and the profits of courts 

 were valued at 20s. yearly. 



In the 5th of Edward II. we find that an additional rent of 

 4 lbs. of cummin (" cuminum ") was paid to the king, as well 

 as 2 lbs. of pepper — a very considerable addition. We can easily 

 understand the use and value of pepper in the Middle Ages ; but 

 what was the cummin for ? Mattheolus, in his commentary on 

 Dioscorides, the old medical authorities of an early period, shall 

 inform us: — " Ciminum sativum — Excalfacit, adstringit, exiccat : 

 ad tormina inflationesque convenit, coctum et cum oleo inditum, 

 aut cum hordacea farina illitum : orthopnoicis datur in posca : 

 demorsis a serpente in vino : testium collectionibus auxiliata 

 impositum cum uva passa aut folii farina cerr.tove : mensium 

 abundantium inhibet : contritum autem in aceto et naribus 

 objectum sanguinis profluvia sistit : colorem hibe?itiu>n nintat in 

 palloreni." Even calculated to change the rubicund hue of the 

 worshipper of Bacchus into the pallor of the total abstainer ! 



In the survey of 50 Edward III. this rent of spices is not 

 mentioned. There were two carucates of plough-land, valued 

 at 13s. 4d. ; ten acres of meadow at 20s. ; forty acres of pasture 

 worth 17s.; ten marks {£6 13s. 4d.) of yearly rents. The 

 court of the manor produced 5s. 8d. ; and the watermill, beyond 

 reprises or expenses, 6s. 8d. per annum. From a Muster Roll, 

 given by Mr. Yeatman in his ''Feudal History" part 2, 481, it 

 appears that Isabella, widow of John de la Legh, had lands in 

 Steynesby worth to marks; John de Herdwick 403. in lands; 

 Robert Savage, 40s. in goods ; Richard Savage, 20s. in lands. 

 One bowman John A\'yndgate. 



In an Inquest of Knights' Fees, 10 Henry VI., it was presented 

 that John Savage, of Clyston, County Chester, Kt., had in demesne 

 a free ten' in Steynesby which he held in socage, worth 40s. He 

 also held 30s. in socage in Dore. 



