Particulars of account: rents receivable from the Templars' property at Bristol, 1309–13
William Randalf, custodian of the Templars' former possessions at Bristol, sets out a list of rents receivable with the names and status of tenants and details of what they are renting. Tenants are leasing mesuages (dwelling houses or tenements), shops and vacant plots; some are specified to be holding at fee, or to be tenants at will (ad voluntatem domini) or tenants for life (ad vitam). Rent is payable in equal portions at Easter (i.e., at some point in spring between 21 March and 21 April) and Michaelmas (29 September). Note that some tenants are women. In the enrolled account, at TNA E 358/20 rot. 2 dorse, it is explained that in fact four of these tenants did not pay the rent due every year and that the pension payable from the vicar's benefice was not paid. Here the reasons for non-payment are explained: some of the properties were standing empty, because of the lack of tenants or because the buildings were in need of repair; and some rent remained unpaid because of the Bristolians' rebellion against the king.
Words between X X have been crossed through in the manuscript.
TNA SC 6/851/10, Bristol, 1309–13. 1 rot.
[Label on outside of roll] [pencil] SC 6
[printed] Ministers' Accounts
851/10
[Outside of roll] 5–6 Ed II
Comp' custodis terrar[um] et ten' [que]
[fue]runt Templar' apud Bristoll'
[recto]
[Annus Tertius/ Year 3: 1309–10]
Compot' Will[el]mi Randalf' custodis terrar[um] + tenement' que fueru[n]t Templar' ap[u]d Bristoll' a xxv\o/
Die Octobr' Anno r[egni] r[egis] E[dwardi] filii r[egis] E[dwardi] t[er]cio usq[ue] xxviij die[m] Novembr' Anno r'r' \ei[us]d[em]/ E. vij.
\Reddit[us]/ assis'// Id[em] r[eddit] comp] de xix s iij d ob[ol'] de xij mes[uag]' + duab[us] vacuis placeis que Rad[ulfu]s Yzoly q[u]\o/nd[am] tenuit in Templestret'
de t[er]minis Pasch' + Mich[ael]is p[er] eq[u]\a/les porc[i]ones. Et de xx s iij d de redditu Gilber' Franceys p[ro] vj Mes' in eod[em]
vico ad eosd[em] t[er]minos. Et de viij s viij d de redditu Ric[ard]i de Welles de trib[us] Mes' in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[erm]i[n]os.
Et de ix s ij d de redditu Joh[ann]is LoviL de t[ri]b[us] Mes' + J vacua platea in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[er]minos. Et de
ix s j d de redditu Thome atte Wynch' de iiij\or/ Mes' + J Shopa in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[erm]i[n]os. Et de xviij d
de redditu d[ic]ti Thom[e] ate Wynch' de uno Mes' + una vacua platea t[er]re q[ue] tenuit ad t[er]minu[m] vite in eod[em] vico ad
eosd[em] t[er]minos. Et de iiij s ix d de redditu Jurdani Brown de iij Ms' in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[er]minos q[ue] tenuit in
feod[o]. Et de vj d de redditu Joh[ann]is TumbreL de uno Mes' quod tenuit in feodo in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[erm]i[n]os. Et
de ij s de redditu Agnetis de Kerdyf de uno Mes' quod tenet in feodo in eod[em] vico ad p[re]d[ic]tos t[erm]i[n]os. Et de xij \d/
de redditu Will[elm]i le Boned de uno Mes' quod tenet in feodo in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[erm]i[n]os. Et de xij de d[ict]\o/ redditu
Joh[ann]is Page de uno Mes' quod tenet in feodo in eod[em] vico ad eosd[em] t[erm]i[n]os. Et de xvj d de redditu Rober[ti] de
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The Knights Templar at Bristol, 1309-13
Non-FictionThis is a draft transcription and translation of the custodian's accounts for the Templars' property at Bristol. There is also a record of the debts owed to the Templars. The accounts are preserved at The National Archives of the UK, in E 358/20 rot...
