Odo de Hodnet (II.), son and heir of Baldwin, by Cecily de Hadley, came of age in 1228. At a Forest-Assize, held in 1230, Odo de Hodenet covenanted to pay an annual ferm of 8d. for 2 acres of Forest-land, to be taken out of Regard. The charge is made against him more or less regularly on the Pipe-Rolls of 40 years following, and in 1273 he owed 9s. 8d. on this account, or the arrears of 14½ years.
The following Fine, entered on the Pipe-Roll of 1239, I give as it stands.— Odo de Hodenet et Thomas Corbet (debent) 100 sol. ut deleatur consuetudo capiendi singlis annis 5 summas siliginis de Manerio de Hodnet et 1 summam siliginis de Manerio de Maston et 1 summam siliginis de Manerio de Hatton, et pro relacione cujusdam cariagii sicut continetur in originali". Odo de Hodnet, Lord of Hodnet, and Thomas Corbet, Lord of High Hatton, were uterine brothers....
At the Assizes of November 1240, four Placita Nativitatis, as they were called, resulted in Final Concords whereby Odo de Hodnet granted manumission to certain Tenants-in-Villeinage. He thus released the Villeinage (nativitatem) and servitude of two brothers, Richard and William de Wulfrinton, for 2 merks, of William Sylyon for 6 merks, of Henry Sylton for 6 merks, and of William fitz Levenath for 20s.
In July 1241 I find Odo de Hodnet commissioned as a Justice to try a local cause. In 1250 Geoffrey de Langley, Justice of the Forest, amerced Odo de Hodenet 30 merks for venison-trespass. In the Pipe-Roll of 1252 Odo de Hodenet owes 23½ merks of this amercement, and 25 merks more for some Charter which he had obtained, but of which I find no enrolment in the usual Record.
The Hundred-Roll of 1255 speaks of Hodnet as follows.- "Sir Odo de Hodenet holds the Manor of Hodenet, from the Conquest of England, in capite, of Mongomeri (i.e. as of the Honour of Montgomery), and by service of Seneschal (acting as Seneschal) at the mandate of the Lords of Mongomeri;- to wit, he shall abide in the Bailiwick of Montgomeri Castle, at the charges and at the discretion of the said Lords, and shall have a house there sufficient for himself and his followers (familiae) to reside in. He does suit to the County, and, every three weeks, to the Hundred".
At the Assizes of January 1256, Sir Odo de Hodnet acted as a Juror in causes of Grand Assize. An Inquest, held pursuant to a Writ of Sept. 18, 1257, found that it would be no injury to the Crown or the Country, if Odo de Hodnet were to enclose two footpaths which ran through the middle of Hodnet Park;- provided that he gave a different course to the said footpaths outside his Park, one towards the East, the other towards the North. In August 1256, July 1258, and February 1259, Odo de Hodnet was commissioned as a Justice for the gaol-delivery of Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. In Easter Term 1261, Ranulf Payn was suing Odo de Hodnet for a debt of 9 merks, but the Knight, now, as often previously, failed to appear at Westminster.
In the period which now ensued, Odo de Hodnet's known character as a Royalist must be taken in explanation of the following suit, which commenced soon after the Restoration. In Michaelmas Term 1265 and January 1266, Odo de Hodnet, or his Attorney, Alan de Hodnet, appeared twice coram Rege, complaining how William Trumwyn, Stephen de Ocle, and others, had, during the late troubles, devastated with fire and rapine his Manor of Hodnet. The Defendants in this cause never occur as appearing to the charge, but always as Defaulters. So too Odo de Hodnet was prosecuted by John de Bottelegh (his own Tenant, I think), for seizing his lands at Langeford during the recent troubles and still detaining his goods. The suit was called on in January 1266, and Hodnet's Manucaptors were amerced for his non-appearance. The result I do not find.
In November 1268, July 1269, and January 1272, Odo de Hodnet was again commissioned as a Justice to deliver Bridgnorth Gaol. A Patent of June 27, 1270, shows that Sir Odo de Hodnet had, during the civil wars, been in the following of that distinguished Royalist, Hamo le Strange, who had written to the King certifying that fact. The King therefore, for his part, pardons the said Odo for all trespasses committed in defiance of the Provisions of Oxford, up to the 10th of March, 1268.
The Inquest, taken in 1273, on the death of George de Cantilupe, Lord of Montgomery, seems to have included Hodnet among the Knights'-fees held of that Honour. 1
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23 Jan 1239, Shropshire
Odo of Hodnet and Thomas Corbet have made fine by 100s. so that the custom of the sheriff taking five loads of rye from the manor of Hodnet , one load of rye from the manor of Maston' , and one load of rye from the manor of Harton for relief from carriage when King John was at war with Llywelyn , which was lifted in the time of King John, be abolished forever. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take security from them for those 100s. and permit them to have peace therefrom.
25 Jun 1239, Shropshire
Odo of Hodnet gives 20s. for having a record before the king (coram Rege) against Thomas Corbet.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 23 Hen. III, 78, 245
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1 Sep 1249, Havering
Ratification of a sale by Germanus the king's tailor to Odo de Hodonet of the wardship of the land and heirs of Richard de Samford.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 33 Hen. III, p. 47
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3 Jul 1250
Odo of Hodnet gives the king 40 marks for having a charter of warren in his manor of Hodnet, for having a market each week on Tuesdays in the same manor, for having a fair there each year for two days on the eve and feast of St. Denis the Martyr, and for acquitting the same charter from the [fees of the] Chancery, of which he is to render 10 marks to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-fourth year, 10 marks at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and the remaining 20 marks in the following year at the same terms.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 34 Hen. III, 492
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26 Aug 1254, Shropshire
Odo de Hodenet gives the king 20s. for having a writ called quare impedit at the Bench.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 38 Hen. III, 810
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15 Sep 1257, Shropshire
Odo de Hodenet gives the king 40s. for an assize of novel disseisin to be taken before Nicholas de Turri.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 41 Hen. III, 922
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15 Mar 1269, Shropshire
Ode de Hodenet gives half a mark for having a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 53 Hen. III, 216
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24 Apr 1274, Westminster
Power to William de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, Roger de Clifford, John Giffard, the prior of St. Thomas without Stafford, William Bagod and Odo de Hodenet, who are to be present at the ford of Montgomery a month after Eastor day, to make a truce between Llewellin son of Grifiith, prince of Wales, and Humphrey de Bohun of Brekcon until Michaelmas.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 2 Edw. I, p. 48
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Inquisition Post Mortem.
532. Odo de Hodynet alias de Hodenet. 2
Writ, 10 Feb. 12 Edw. I. [1283/4]
SALOP. Extent, Tuesday the morrow of St. Valentine, 12 Edw. I.
Hodenet. The manor, except the advowson of the church (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of being steward of Montgomery at the charges of the lord of that liberty, with 5 horses, 4 greyhounds, and 6 brachets, having a fitting house in the castle for himself and his wife with one maid (domicilla) and his household (familia), whilst it shall please the lord of that liberty and no longer ; and when he shall remain there at his own will he shall render his account and withdraw.
Moston. 1 carucate land and a mill, held of Philip de Marmyun for 1/10 knight's fee.
Westburi. A messuage and garden, 4 carucates land, 6s. 8d. rent of assize, a wood worth 2s., a water-mill worth 6s. 8d., and pleas &c. worth 13s. 4d., held of Peter Corbet by service of 1 knight's fee.
Whelbeche. A messuage, 2 carucates land, a mill worth 10s., and pleas &c. worth 2s., held of Fulk son of Warin, by service of 1/20 knight's fee.
William, his son, is his next heir, and of full age.
C. Edw. I. File 39. (8.)
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