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19. Muster Roll
It was customary in the middle ages to review at times all those men who could possibly be called upon to fight. We have record of the muster of the men of this neighbourhood in the reign of Henry VIII. The Muster Rolls are undated.
The muster was, in the words of the document, the "shewying and views of the men at arms, men armed hable to bare them, as well archers as other men, and horsemen and on fote". In the rolls are given "the names and forenames and diversic of their harneyse". The men of Craven were seen by Sir Thomas Tempest of Bracewell, knight and John Lambert of Calton, Commissioners of the King on the 27th and 28th March and the first day of April (1539).
On the Sutton list are 39 names. Most of them are familiar, Bret, Blakey, Smythe, Shakilden, Harper and Spenser are all common Sutton names of the period.
From the summary there seems to have been five men who were equipped for fighting. There were twenty men who had no weapon at all. The rest had different implements. Hugo Baret had a jak and a salet. That is, a jacket probably of leather and a light helmet. John Scardeburgh had a lede malle, that is, a hammer shaped weapon made of lead. Robert lejoyd had splentes and bill. The former was a (set of) small overlapping plates, used for the defence of the arm above the elbow, it allowed free motion of the arm. The bill was a similar weapon to the malle.
It would be interesting to know the condition of these weapons, probably they were kept in the family and handed down.
Muster Roll. Villa de Sutton.
ar. William Baret hors & hern
ar. Hugh Blakey hors & hern
b. Robert Shakilden Hors
b. Richard Shakilden jak, bill
ar. Jamys Ednumdson
b. Robert Baret salet, bill
b. William Baret
b. John Nutter jak
b. Gilbert Thompson
b. John Riden
b. John Shakilden
b. Robert Parkinson hors
b. Richard Thompson
b. Richard Spencer
b. Edward Harper
b. Edward Hooper
b. Rober lejoyd splentes, bill
b. John Scardeburgh lede melle
b. Richard Scardeburgh
b. Thomas Blakey gent hors & hern
b. Richard Smythe hors & hern
b. Edward Shakilden
b. Edmund Harper hors
b. Richard Smythe hors
b. Adam Baret
b. Richard Scardeburgh
b. John Baret jak, salet
ar. Robert Bag jak
b. Arthur Jackson
b. Richard Harper hors & hern
b. Edward Dickson hors & hern
b. William Spencer jak, bill
b. Robert Spencer
b. William Baret
b. Hugo Baret jak, salet
b. Thomas Grey
ar. Nicolas Jonson
b. John Cowndow
Son lf Hablemen XXXIX
whereof
Archers V
Bilmen XXXIIII
thereof
of men furnyshed V
of horses IIII
of jakkes VI
of salettes III
of billes V
of splentes I
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