The Coucher Book - or chartulary of Whalley Abbey, Nr. 275, S. 286
C I A N T tam presentes quam futuri quod ego Helias filius Awardi Broune dedi et concessi et hac mea presenti carta confirmaui Abbati et monachis Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe unam bouatam terre in Castelton cum ommb3 ptinentijs suis, illam, scilicet, quam tenui iure hereditario in sergentarij ser- uicio.* Tenend, et habend, de me et heredib3 meis hereditarie pro octo solidis et octo denarijs. Reddendo inde mihi et heredib3 meis anuuatim p omni seruicio predicte terre ptinente xij. denarios ad festum sancti Martini. Et ut hec donatio firma permaneat sigilli mei appositione illam corroboraui. Hijs testibî, Mich. clerico tunc balliuo, Galfr. de Bukkel, Galfr. de Berdeshull, Willmo le Wilde, Alano de Merland, Andr. filio Bate, et multis alijs.
* Iu the post mortem inquisition of the Earl of Lincoln, taken at Clithero 26th February, 1310, occurs the following — ? Johes de Baschagh (Uashall) per serjantia de fœdo de Kachdale xxvi" viiiJ per ann.
Whether this was a service due to the king, to furnish him with some article for the wars, or a trivial rent due from a tenant to a lord, does not appear; but it was most probably the latter, though the general acceptation of the term denoted a ser vice due to the king.
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