184      TABLE OF BOROUGH FARMS

¹ Madox, Firma Burgi, p. 13, и. t.

² Cal. Charier Rolls, i. 96.

[For footnotes 3 to ɪ? -see opposite page.

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from mints, mills and fisheries, if separately stated, are not
given. The forms in which the borough farms, etc., were
paid, when ascertainable, are indicated by the following
abbreviations : Ы = blanch ; bw = burnt and weighed ;
t ■= by tale or numéro ; w = weighed ; ws — white silver ;
XX = 20d. to the ounce. Figures in square brackets are
based on evidence later than the date to which they are referred
in the table.

APPENDIX II

The Firma Burgi and Election of Reeves {Bailiffs')

In 1913 Ballard thought it “ not unreasonable to believe
that the grant of the firme burgi (to royal boroughs) always
carried with it the right to appoint the reeves, whether this
right had been mentioned in the charter or no. ” ¹ He grounded
this belief on the association of the two privileges in a number
of charters, especially closely in those of London (llʒl, 1199)
and Dublin (1215), and on the necessity of burgess control
over the official who collects the dues, if they are to be answer-
able for them or a sum paid out of them. His conclusion is,
for the first time, contested by Dr. Carl Stephenson, who
extends the inquiry to those farming leases of which the only
surviving evidence is on the Pipe Rolls.² He claims to have
shown that Ballard’s view is inconsistent with what is known
or may be conjectured with probability about the farms of
boroughs before these leases and with the recorded history of
the leases themselves.

(l) These leases first made burgesses directly responsible
at the exchequer for the farm of their town in place of the

¹ B.B.C. I. Ixxxvi.

²Borough and Town, pp. 166-70. He does once, unconsciously, make
Ballard’s assumption himself. See above, p. 174, n. 4.

³ Madox, op. cit. pp. 267-8 n. ; of. Ballard and Tait, British Borough
Charters, ii. 316.

* Ibid. p. 305.

⁵ Madox, op. cit. p. 8, n. y from P.R. 2 Hen. Ill, rot. 8a .

⁶ B.B.C. i. 229 ; Book of Fees, i. 79 f. ; E.H.R. v. 638, n. From 1204,
at latest, it was reduced by allowances for grants to £19 ιos.

^, Madox, p. 122, from P.R. 9 Ric. I, rot. 16, m ɪa, reads £25 incorrectly.

⁸ See above, p. 151.

^, P.R. 2 John, p. 9.

¹⁰ P.R. 6 Ric. I, p. 47.

¹¹ With Portsmouth in 1200 (P.R. 2 John, p. 193) £200.

¹²See above, p. 143, n. ɪ.

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