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John, 1211, and merely says that Eichard de Medler 

 holds one virgate of land, and renders for the same 

 annually, at the Feast of St. Michael, two knives (knife u- 

 los). A second contemporary roll supplies the place of 

 payment, viz., the Exchequer ; a third writes the name, 

 Richard le Mener. In 1245 Nicholas de More is said to 

 pay at the Exchequer two knives (cultellos) — one good, 

 the other very bad — for certain land which he holds of 

 the King in capite in More. In 1255 the Stottesden Jurors 

 report that Nicholas de Medler holds one virgate in More, 

 in capite of the Lord King, rendering at the Exchequer 

 two knives, one of which ought to cut a hazel rod, and 

 he does no other service for the said land. In that of 

 1274 Jurors of the same Hundred say at length that 

 Nicholas de la More holds one virgate in that vill of the 

 Lord King, in capite, by sergeantry, of taking two knives 

 to the King's Exchequer, at the feast of St. Michael in 

 each year, so that he ought to cut a hazel rod with one 

 knife, so that the knife should bend (plicare) with the 

 stroke ; and again, to cut a rod with the other knife. 

 The record of 1284 describes Nicholas de la More as 

 holding three parts of a virgate and two moors, by ser- 

 geantry, &c. The Jurors of Oct. 1292 say that William 

 de la More, of Erdington, holds one virgate in the More, 

 by sergeantry of taking two knives to the King's Ex- 

 chequer on the morrow of St. Michael, and to cut with 

 the same knives two hazel rods." 



