BOROUGH OF SOUTHAMPTON 



queen of Henry IV, had a jointure of 150 marks on 

 the farm in I4oo. 149 She died in 1437. Margaret 

 of Anjou was endowed (May, 1444) out f t ' le 

 customs of Southampton (1,000), and in 1454 

 obtained an annuity of 100 from the fee-farm." 



HAINAULT. Or a lion 

 table for FLANDERS 

 quartered -with Or a lion 

 gules for HOLLAND. 



NAVARRE. Gules a 

 double orle, a cross and a 

 salfire of chains or all 

 conjoined. 



Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV, received 46 per 

 annum from the farm (1467),'" and three years later 

 the mayor had to borrow j to make up the allow- 

 ance, 162 for the town always made an effort to pay the 

 queens with some kind of regularity, even when laps- 

 ing into a chronic state of arrears. In the reign of 

 Henry VIII similar payments were made, and in 

 1605 James I made the same settlement on his 

 queen. 183 



Again, payments were often made to great nobles. 

 Thus, not to mention smaller amounts of an earlier 

 date, in 1461 (14 December) an annuity of 154 

 from the farm was confirmed to Richard Nevill, the 

 stout earl of Warwick ; and payments were continued 

 till he fell at Barnet, Easter Day, 1471, though not 



ANJOU. Old France in 

 a border gules. 



WYDVILE. Argent a 

 fesse and a quarter gules. 



without the usual confusion and delay. On one 

 occasion the mayor had to ride to London (1469) ' to 

 rekyn wt the erle of Warwicke.' He was there 

 twelve days and spent 5O/. (id., and it appears he had 



to borrow money in ' contentacion of the fee-ferine/' IM 

 The next settlement (154) was made on William 

 Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel, and payments were made 

 to him in numerous small instalments till his death in 

 1487. Payment was sometimes tendered in wine, 

 sometimes the earl would draw on the town for his 

 friends. Occasionally his letters are quite pathetic as 

 to his non-payment, always expressing the moderation 

 of his demands, and begging ' his right trusty and well 

 beloved friends and neighbours, the mayor and his 

 brethren ' to bear in mind his great charges (January- 

 November, 1482). Two years later he urges his 

 expenses in 'setting forth to the sea his right entirely 

 beloved son, Sir John Arundel ' at the king's com- 

 mand, and having to furnish so many men 'diffensibly 

 arrayed ' when needed for the royal service (April, 

 1484).'" 



Charges for the king's household, varying consider- 

 ably, were also made on the farm from time to time ; 



NEVILL. Gules a sal- 

 tire argent and a label 

 gobony argent and azure. 



FITZ ALAN. Gules 

 a lion or. 



6s. S<t. in 



thus z6 i8/. 6d. in 1450 ; 166 

 1461 ; 167 154 in I495- 168 



It will be gathered that the town was occasionally 

 in difficulty about its rent. It was frequently obliged 

 to resort to loans and gifts I69 from private individuals. 

 Sometimes its burgesses suffered in person for the 

 debts of the community. Thus in 1461 we find one 

 of the chief burgesses thrown into the Fleet at the suit 

 of John, Lord Wenlock, of the Privy Council, for the 

 ' rerage ' of the fee-farm ; and on 24 July ' Symkyn 

 Patrycke 17 and John Gryme' rode to London by 

 commandment of the mayor and burgesses ' to labour 

 for the worship of the town and the welfare of Richard 

 Gryme, 171 the which was in the prison of the Fleet 

 for the debt of the said town.' 17 ' The sum of 20 

 was paid for his deliverance, to be considered ap- 

 parently as a loan by Richard. 173 



Returning now to the amount of the fee-farm : 

 a permanent reduction of 40 marks (26 131. 4<) 

 was made in 15301 on urgent petition of the 



159 She was deprived of her dower 

 estates on an absurd charge of sorcery in 

 1419, but restored in 1422 ; indentures 

 between the queen and the town as to 

 her payment exist, bearing date 12 Nov. 

 that year. Corp. MSS. 



160 Rot. Parl. (Rec. Com.), v, 120, 

 133*, 259, 262. 



"1 Lib. Remembranc. H. (Corp. MSS.); 

 Rot. Parl. (Rec. Com.), v, 626. 



"' Steward's Bk. (Corp. MSS.), 

 1470-71. 



58 Town Journ. (Corp. MSS.). 



164 Lib. Remembranc. H. fol. 32-3 ; 

 Steward's Bk. (Corp. MSS.). On in- 

 demnity by Edw. IV for payments to late 

 earl of Warwick, see Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. 

 xi, App. iii, loo; and on grant of 20 



from fee-farm to Thomas Raynold, late 

 sheriff of the town, 1469, ibid. 98. 



165 Steward's Bk. and letters affixel ; 

 Lib. Remembranc. H. fol. 149^. (Corp. 

 MSS.). 



166 Rot. Parl. (Rec. Com.), v, 174*. 



"7 Lib. Remembranc. H. fol. 32 (Corp. 

 MSS.) ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xi, App. iii, 

 1 6. 



163 Rot. Parl. (Rec. Com.), vi, 499*. 



169 Stewards' Bks. (Corp. MSS.) afford 

 details. 



'"O Sheriff in 1451. 



171 Sheriff in 1458, mayor 1459. This 

 visit of the burgesses falls in fairly with 

 the old gild ordinance which provided that 

 any gildsman in prison, in whatever part 

 of the kingdom , should be visited at the 



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common expense, and his release procured 

 if possible. Richard Gryme certainly 

 returned safely to enjoy the sweets of 

 freedom in his garden in East Street, 

 and some years after he appears as lieu- 

 tenant of Hampton ; Stewards' Bks. 



1474- 



173 Steward's Bk. 1461, and loose paper 

 containing details of journey, &c. (Corp. 

 MSS.). 



178 Payd for lyverance of Rychard 

 Gryme, what tyme he was in Flete at 

 sewte of lord Wanlok for the rerage of 

 the fee-farm of the Towne, xx//' (Steward's 

 Bk. 1461-2) ; 'Item lent to Ric. Gryme 

 for his delyverans ayenst my lord Wen- 

 lok, xx//' (Lib. Remembranc. H. fol. 

 25*). 



