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 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 377 De consuetud' piscium per idem tempus, iiii ^ De consuetudinariis et minutis consuetudinibus per prsedictum tempus, Ix s De placitis et pirquisitis per idem tempus, c ^ Summa, xxi^' Item ab Tn crastino exaltationis S. Crucis usque festum S. Mich'is ut in pesagio lanse et consuetudine intrantium et exeuntium, et placitis et perquisitis, et de consuetudine portarum, etaliis perniissionibus mercatorum, et escaetis, 1. marc. Summa, 1. marc. Et sciendum est quod antequam P. de Rupibus appropriavit sibi sub- urbium Winton, omnes et singuli suburbanii, qui operabantur burellos, solebant reddere pro uteusili suo v. solidos per ami. Et quilibet operator cbalonum in quo operabantur magni chalones, xii. den. Et quilibet operantes parvos cbalones, vi. den. Summa summarum, Ixxviij ^ iiii ^ x '^ Nomina, xii. juratorum : Will, le Specir. Hugo de Fulfloud. Adam Povere. Andr'. Beaublet. Ric. de Stogbridge. Will. Strut. Job. Russel. Will, de Ocely. Job. Moraunt. Walt, de Kaperlgge. Job. le Cras. Tbo. le Paumer. Assuming the finding of the jury to be true, we obtain from it some curious information. It charges William de Raley, or Ralige (bishop of Winchester between the years 1243 and 1249), with having appropriated parts of the suburb near the north and west gates of the City of Winchester, formerly in the hands of the crown and parcel of the city. The latter part of the record attributes this encroachment to the preceding bishop, Peter de Rupibus. Perhaps the usurpation continued under both prelates. The alleged appropriation is of the moiety of a " vicus " without each of the two gates. In documents of this sort, and at this date, vicus usually means what we now call a street; and this must be its import hero, as it certainly is in the subsequent list of streets. The bishop, no doubt, claimed them as part of the Soke Liberty ; all the lands of the See within or immediately circum- jacent about the walls having immemorially composed the manor and franchise of that name. It states that every " utensile," or loom, within the liberty, and within the circuit of five leagues round, in which clothes, called hurrcUs, were woven, paid 5s. per an. to the king ; and that every weaver of double chalons, paid s. per an., and of single chalons, Gd. per an. That by including these suburban districts within the episcopal liberty the weavers were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the city bailifls, and thereby escaped the above payments and other charges due to the king and the city ; and that they had accordingly left the city, and settled in the more favoured suburbs. The chalones seem to have been blankets or coverlets (Prompt. Parvulorum, ad voc, and the note of Mr. Way, ibid.), whence the surname of Chaloner. The burillors were a branch of the