Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- TABLE SHOWING CONTENTS OF CHARTERS
- CHARTERS
- I FORMATION OF BOROUGH
- II A BURGAGE TENURE AND LAW OF REAL PROPERTY
- II B TENURIAL PRIVILEGES
- III BURGESS FRANCHISE
- IV JURISDICTIONAL PRIVILEGES
- V MERCANTILE PRIVILEGES
- VI BOROUGH FINANCES
- VII BOROUGH OFFICERS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
II A - BURGAGE TENURE AND LAW OF REAL PROPERTY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- TABLE SHOWING CONTENTS OF CHARTERS
- CHARTERS
- I FORMATION OF BOROUGH
- II A BURGAGE TENURE AND LAW OF REAL PROPERTY
- II B TENURIAL PRIVILEGES
- III BURGESS FRANCHISE
- IV JURISDICTIONAL PRIVILEGES
- V MERCANTILE PRIVILEGES
- VI BOROUGH FINANCES
- VII BOROUGH OFFICERS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
Summary
Grants of Burgages
BRADNINCH, 1141—75. Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Reginaldus Comes Cornubiae dedi et concessi et…confirmavi Burgensibus meis de Bradninch burgariam suam et placias suas sicut illae liberatae sunt et assignatae tenendas et habendas illis et heredibus suis in feodo et jure hereditario in perpetuum de me et heredibus meis libere et quiete et pacifice et integre bene et honorifice in aquis viis semitis et in omnibus bonis consuetudinibus.
(Know all men, present and future, that I Reginald Earl of Cornwall have given and granted and confirmed to my burgesses of Bradninch their burgary and their places as they were delivered and assigned to them to be held and had to them and their heirs in fee and by hereditary right, for ever, of me and my heirs, freely and quietly and peacefully, and fully, well and honourably, in waters in ways in paths and in all good customs.)
BRADNINCH, 1215—20.
Line 2. For Reginaldus read Henricus filius Reginaldi Comitis Cornubiae.
3. For burgariam read burgagia.
SWANSEA, 1153—84. Notum sit me concessisse unicuique burgensi burgagium cum omnibus suis pertinentiis scilicet eorum assars et unicuique septem acras ultra nemus et supra Burlakesbroke.
(Be it known unto you that I have granted to each burgess a burgage with all its appurtenances, that is to say, their assarts, and to each one seven acres beyond the wood and above Burlakesbroke.)
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- British Borough Charters 1042–1216 , pp. 38 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1913