Document 4/39/18 (Cold. Corr., App., lxxxvii- lxxxviii)
- Description
- 1298 COLDINGHAM EXTENT CONTINUED:
FISHWICK. The chief residence with garden and dovecot is worth yearly 6s. 8d. There are in the demesne two ploughgates of land, with 8 oxgangs making a ploughgate, and 12 acres and a half making an oxgang, and with each oxgang worth 5s. yearly. A meadow of two acres and a half for two years can be mowed, but not in the third year, and an acre is worth 12d. Separate pasture of about 50 acres, and worth 40s. There was a mill, but not now, which, if restored, would be worth 7 marks yearly. Two fisheries worth 13 marks annually. And one fishery, called Northford, renders 1 mark per year, and is assigned to a farmer.
Advowson of the church is not surveyed because it is 'in proprios usos' (for their own uses).
There are 16 husbandmen, namely William son of Robert, who holds one toft and 30 acres of land with pertinents of its moor, and it renders 6s. 11d. yearly. And whoever has the ploughgate ought to plough one acre and harrow that acre and will have a food allowance on the day with 4 of his helpers, and he will have three meals, and cheese all day and sufficient drink, and he will reap for two days per week with two [meals?] per day, and he will have two loafs of bread per ploughman (?), three herrings and cheese, and to those who work in the manor, one stone of cheese. All the other bondsmen will carry the lord's grain, dig peats for one day, will spend one day keeping the crops in good order (e.g., by hoeing, mowing, pruning, etc.) for one day, and someone will transport six carriages of peats, and will have a food allowance on the day. They will carry the lord's victuals, teinds and grain from Berwick, and will have two loaves of bread. All will wash and shear two flocks of sheep, and will have meal allowances, namely two loaves, three herrings and cheese. And all the bondsmen give suit of multure, out of whom twelve will pay for the multure 3s. A certain four remaining (bondsmen) pay three shillings, and a certain (bondsman) two shillings.
There are six cottars, who hold one toft and six acres of land. Of whom Robert son of Henry pays yearly for his land 12d, and reaps 2 days per week, with one man, and he will have his meal allowance, namely two loaves and three herrings, and he will stack gain and will have his meal allowance twice per day, and at nine will eat in the hall, at the time of the farmers. But if the Prior has the manor in his hand, then two loaves and three herrings and cheese. And the same Robert will cut peats for one day, and will have a food allowance, and to whichever bondsman carries peats the said Robert will stack them, and will have his food allowance twice in one day, and he will drive the sheep to the water and pen them for shearing, and he will have two loaves and three herrings. All the other cottars will do the same as the said Robert, and will keep the crops in good order as the bondsmen, and will have one meal allowance per day.
One toft with garden belonging to the brewhouse, worth and paying yearly 1 mark.
FARMERS: There are five farmers, each one of whom renders yearly 12d., and cuts peat for one day, tends the crops for one day, mows/ reaps for four days, and at mess will have two food allowances per day. William the weaver holds one toft with garden, paying 2s per year, and for working at the millpond. All the others of the town will work at the millpond, and make the mill house at their own expense, and the Prior will provide the wood and transport it there. One toft with garden lies waste, which used to pay 26d per year, now affirmed for one year for 4d.
Memorandum that one fishery in the place called 'Schipwell' is assigned to the bridge of Berwick, and pays annually one half mark.
Sum total with fisheries 21 pounds, 6s. 4d. because of the mill.
- Firm date
- circa 1298
- Source for Data Entry
- Cold. Corr., App., lxxxvii- lxxxviii
- Trad. ID
- Cold. Corr., App., lxxxvii- lxxxviii
- Calendar number
- 4/39/18
- Charter type
- Inquest
- Language
- Latin