General Notes

Peter was Steward to Gervase Paganell, Baron of Dudley, held of thatnobleman in 12 of Henry II, 1165, no less than nine knights' fees deveteri feoffment. This Peter had a Castle at Bermingham, which stoodscarcely a bow-shot from the church to the westward and by a charter fromthe crown held a weekly market Thursday there. By this charter he had theliberties of Thol, Theam, Sock, Sack and Infangethef to him and his heirsforever. (Footnote. These liberties were the power of punishing offenderswithin his own bounds; a power of obliging all that live in hisjurisdiction to plead in his courts; a cognizance of all courts; a powerto punish natives for theft.)