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Original Documents.

Inventories of household property of the date of the thirteenth century are of rare occurrence, and few have been hitherto printed. The following example, selected from the muniments of the priory of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, preserved in the Chapter-house, Westminster, may be referred to the close of that period, and is especially interesting as relating to a small manorial residence, of the extent and arrangement of which it presents very satisfactory evidence. The tenement appears to have been situated in one of the two parishes of Warley, in the county of Essex, named respectively Great Warley and Warley Franks[1].

From the mention of Prior E. (Eustace) this document cannot be of later date than 1280, in which year he died, having been elected either in 1264 or 1268[2]. According to Morant[3] Reginald de Ginges obtained license from Edward the First, in 1281, to impark certain lands in Ginges-Radulfi, within the forest of Essex; he was probably descended from Ralph, brother of Ilger, who held lands in that place at the time of the Domesday Survey.

Memorandum quod Reginaldus de Gynges recepit a Priore et conventu Sanctæ Trinitatis London' domos suas de Warlee per precium . videlicet aulam cum thalamo per precium quinque marcarum . capellam triginta solidorum . boveriam viginti solidorum . pistrinum dimid . marce . januam cum solar' viginti solidorum . grangiam meliorera quinque marcarum . secundam viginti solidorum . pro qua pecunie summa dicta edificia sunt appreciata die quo ilia recepit . presentibus E . priore . fratribus Willelmo Aygnel et Philippo canonicis . ipso Reginaldo de Gynges . Reginaldo de Fonte . Henrico Page . Henrico Haryng. Alexandro le Gardiner . Rogero de Ferynges et Ricardo Baynard servientibus . Johanne de Eystane . Alano de Hyndele et aliis.

Item recepit in capella superaltare marmoreum et ymaginem Beate Marie cum tabernaculo . item algeas duas magnas . bussellum sive batun. aratrum cum jugis et pertinentiis. cultrum cum vomere . duas furcas ferreas cum carecta veteri . tabulas duas cum tripodibus . scabellum ct cathedram et scalam. Que omnia restituentur cisdem vel precium eorum post decessum ejusdem Reginaldi. In cujus rei testimonium

  1. ↑ See Morant's Essex, vol. i. p. 111.
  2. ↑ Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. v. p. 150.
  3. ↑ History of Essex, vol. i. p. 215.
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