PR/NA/1
Reference code
PR/NA/1
Level of description
File
Title
Charter of Petronilla Countess of Leicester
Date
c1194
Quantity & Format
1 sheet
Description
Charter of P[etronilla] Countess of Leicester. She grants tithes of corn from her demesne in Netheraven [Netheravon], to be taken not be acres reaped but by sheaves collected. Viz without a deduction of expenses during the reaping. She urges the tenants of her demesne or of her son in that town to follow her example in tithing the corn of their demesne by sheathes as the villeins did from their land: this is how tithes should come to the church without a deduction of expenses. The witnesses are William and Simon chaplains, Roger de Huma, Ralph Mallori, William de Clifton, Robert Saerdelawe, Robert the clerk etc. See p.53 of Rev. W. Dunn Macray (ed.), Salisbury Charters and Documents (1891).
Language
Latin
Physical Characteristics
Material: parchment
Keywords
de Grandmesnil, Petronilla
Netheravon
Netheravon