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Grant by Thomas de nevill the clerk to the canons in free alms of the houses in Lothbury on Walbrook which were once held by Aaron the jew of Lincoln, with adjacent vacant land once held by Brunus the Jew, in the parish of St Olaf Jewry in London which had been granted to him by King John, rendering a pair of gilt spurs to the king at Easter and the service due to the lords of the fee, as in the king's charter (no.570) which Thomas has handed to Abbot Richard. Witnesses Roger fitzalan of London, henry of st alban of london, constantine fitz alulf of London, serlo the mercer of London, abel the goldsmith of London, john juvenis of waltham, his son john, Henry son of Richard, osbert le madle, henry of Wormley, Maingod Napier, hay of Waltham, Gilbert of Epping, Simon Grant, Thomas of Holyfiled, 1215 x 2 december 1217
569. Grant by Thomas de Nevill the clerk to the canons in free alms of the houses in Lothbury on Walbrook which were once held by Aaron the Jew of Lincoln, with adjacent vacant land once held by Brunus the Jew, in the parish of St Olaf Jewry in London which had been granted to him by King John, rendering a pair of gilt spurs to the king at Easter and the service due to the lords of the fee, as in the king's charter (no.570) which Thomas has handed to Abbot Richard. Witnesses Roger Fitz Alan of London, Henry of St Alban of London, Constantine Fitz Alulf of London, Serlo the mercer of London, Abel the goldsmith of London, John Juvenis of Waltham, his son John, Henry son of Richard, Osbert le Madle, Henry of Wormley, Maingod Napier, Hay of Waltham, Gilbert of Epping, Simon Grant, Thomas of Holyfield. 1215 x 2 December 1217.
MS: PRO roll C52.12 dorso.
Date: after no.570, dated 1 February 1214, at which date Serb the mercer was mayor and remained so in 1215; he was mayor again from 1217 to 1222 (Brooke and Keir, London 800-1216, 376). Before no.571. For the career of Thomas de Nevill, see Fasti: Lincoln 1066-1300, 84; he had been custos of the Jews in the 1190s and in 1205 was granted the royal manor of Writtle for life (PR 7 John, 9, 172, 175, 195). For Roger Fitz Alan, who had been mayor 1212-1214, see C.N.L. Brooke and G. Keir, London 800-1216, 254, 376. Henry of St Alban and Serb o the mercer had been sheriffs of London in 1206-4 (S. Reynolds, The Rulers of London', 356) and for Henry, see too London Eyre of 1244, nos.195 and 316. Printed: Cartae Antiquae, ii, no.376 (dated c.1214).
Note: the rent was payable at the Exchequer at Westminster; the chief lords were the monks of Westminster to whom the canons paid Ss a year (no.573 <18>). The rent of spurs is noted in 1230 (PR 14 Henry III, 101), but in 1232 Abbot Henry was to demise the property to Benedict Crespin the Jew (Cal. Charter Rolls, i, 168). For discussion of this property, see H.G. Richardson, English Jewry, 8, 47-8. |