| Description | Date: from the Feast of Saint Michael Archangel in the 8th year of Richard II, to the same Feast in the 9th year.
This is a single sheet of parchment, at the right hand of which has been sewn a portion of an account roll of the same manor for the same period, presented by Ralph Clerk, locum tenens of Henry Westby.
Neelson's account contains only the credit side, namely, the profits of the manor, under the heads: rents of assize, works and customary services, farms of the demesne land and meadows, leases of grazing and sales of ashtrees, and perquisites of courts. Frisby, Denyngby and Braythewell were included in the scope of the account. Clerk's account is incomplete, but it seems to be concerned with the same profits.
Westby appears to have been constable of the castle. The whole manuscript is badly preserved and almost illegible. |