A History of Lancashire

by Henry Fishwick

[75] Duchy Chancery Rolls, chap. xxv., A 2ᵇ.

[76] The honour of Lancaster.

[77] See Fishwick’s “History of Kirkham,” Chetham Soc., xcii.

[78] Royal Letters, Henry III., No. 185.

[79] “Letters from Northern Register,” p. 97.

[80] See “Popular History of Cumberland,” p. 231.

[81] The original rolls are in the Record Office. They have been printed by the Chetham Society, vol. cxii.

[82] All the extracts refer to the Lancashire part of the honour, and to the years between 1295 and 1305.

[83] Authorities differ on this point, but all agree that money in the thirteenth century was worth many times its present equivalent coin. At the very least, it requires to be multiplied by ten.

[84] Agisted = allowed to graze in the forest.