Survey and Custumal of Gillingham

  • Reference
    • GB 133 NP/65
  • Dates of Creation
    • n.d. [17th cent.]
  • Physical Description
    • 1 booklet, 16 ff., paper covers.

Scope and Content

Copy of a letters patent of Elizabeth I containing a transcript of a book in the Receipt of the Exchequer, dated 4 August 11 Eliz. [1569], recording a perambulation of Gillingham as follows:

  • 'The perambulacon of Gillingham fforreste and parke.'
  • 'The custome of Gillingham.'
  • 'The boundes of the fforeste and common, the fforreste the Kinges : the common the Queenes.'
  • 'The mannors of the woode court.'
  • 'The mannor of Gillingham being ancient demandes and percell of the possession of the Crowne and a longe tyme percell of the Queenes joynture of England.'
  • 'A remembrance of the payment of xxs a year from Mere.'
  • 'How Gillingham fforrest and parke hath past from tyme to tyme.'
  • 'To showe what authoritie the bayliffe of the manner hath under the Queene in her libertie.'

Acquisition Information

Rylands accession no. R45817.