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XX. A Memoir on the Office of Cuneator, by the Rev. Rogers Ruding, B.D. F.S.A. addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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I have herewith sent a brief Memoir on the Office of Cuneator, in the hope that, if you should think it worthy to be laid before the Society, some of our Members, whose researches may have been more successful than mine, will, by their communication, enable me to form a more decided opinion upon the nature of that office.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1814

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page 207 note a Madox Hist. Excheq. Vol. II. pp. 88, 89.

page 208 note b He claimed the old and broken dies as his fee; which claim was allowed to Thomas Fitz Oto, in the 49th year of Henry III. on his petition to the King in the court of Exchequer, that they belonged to him of right and inheritance, and that his ancestors had been accustomed to have them. This upon examination., was found to be true. Madox, Hist. Excheq. Vol. II. p. 11.

page 208 note c Vol. II. folio 3 b; 97 b; 106 b; in Essex: and 286 b, in Suffolk.

page 208 note d Cart. Antiq. in Tur. Lond. Y. N° 17, directed to Maurice Bishop of London, who was consecrated in 1085, and died in 1197, the 7th year of Henry I. It was probably on account of some dispute respecting his office, that, in the 18th year of the same King, William Fitz Otho paid into the Exchequer xxxvj l. and x d. that he might no longer have a master over him. Mag. Rot. vulgo 5 Step. Rot. 15. a. Londonia. Madox Hist. Excheq. Vol. I. p. 476.

page 208 note e Cart. Antiq. Y. N° 20. directed to Richard Bishop of London, who was consecrated 5 is 1108, and died in 1127, the 27th of Henry I.

page 208 note f Cl. 6. Joh. m. I.

page 209 note g Madox. Vol. II. p. 88.

page 209 note h Madox Baronia, p. 249.

page 209 note i Madox Hist.Excheq. Vol. II. p.11.

page 209 note k Id. p. 89.

page 209 note l Lib. Rub, Scaccarii, folio 247.

page 209 note m Beckwith's edition of Blount's Tenures, p. 129, referring to Plac. Coron, 22. E. I.

page 210 note n Magna Britannia, Vol. V. p. 210. Dugdale's Baronage, Vol. II. p. 46.

page 210 note o Pat. 3. E. III. pt 1. m. 18.

page 210 note p Bundle in tbe Tower unclassed. The instrument is without date; but, from the mention of groats as new coins, it was probably issued soon after the 27th E. III. when those rains first appear in the indentures.

page 211 note q Pat. 47. E. III. p. 2. m. 15.

page 211 note r Dugdale's Baronage, Vol. II. p. 32. He left one daughter and heir, Elisabeth, wife of John Lord Nevill of Raby; but I do not find that this office descended to her.

page 211 note s Volume I. p, 551.

page 211 note t See Bibl. Topographica Britannica, N° XX. p. 63; and Mr. Gough's Letter, Gent. Mag. April 1706, p. 289. This Seal was first engraven by Vertue, and is said to have beea copied from the original in the Library of King's College, Cambridge; but upon inquiry being made there a few years since by Mr. Gough, at my desire, the Seal was not to be found. It was published with the Latin poems of Nicholas Hardinge, Esq. by his son, George Hardinge, Esq. in 1780. See Gent. Mag. referred to above, where a copy of Vertue's engraving is given.

page 212 note u Pinchbeck's Register. Appendix to Batteley's Antiq. S. Edmundi Burgi, N° X. p. 135. What is there printed as a note, forms part of the text in Kempe's Register, Harl. MSS. N° 645, folio 137.

page 212 note x Cart. Antiq. in Turr. Lond. V. N° 17.

page 212 note y Id. N° 20.

page 213 note z Cl. 6. Joh. m. l.

page 213 note a Madox Hist. Excheq. Vol. II. p. 88. [He was dead 41 H. III. Madox Baronia, p. 24 where he is called Otto Fitz William.]

page 213 note b Id Vol.11, p. 11.

page 213 note c Lib. Rub. Scacc. folio 247.

page 213 note d Mag. Rot. 18. E. I. Rot. 1. a Madox's MSS. Vol. LXIX. p. 85.

page 213 note e Beckwith's Blount's Tenures, p. 129. Probably for William Fitz Otho.

page 213 note f Magna Britannia, Vol. V. p. 210.

page 213 note g Pat. 3 E. III. p. 1. m. 18.

page 213 note h Bundle in the Tower unclassed; and Pat. 47 E. III. p. 2. m, 15. ad Officium sculpturæ et fabricæ Cuneorura Regis, in Tur. Lond. et in Cantuar.