1^4 EARLY BREADSALL CHARTERS. 



custom for 3 continuous days, and if more shall be necessary, 

 he will hoe for one entire day for one task {i.e., z.% paid labour). 



" A ' load ' is defined to be half a quarter of corn. A load of 

 flesh meat is one pig, two sheep's carcases, and a quarter of 

 an ox. 



" He shall give the lord 20 eggs at Easter, and on Hokeday, 

 two bushels of oats, called ' Fodder corn.'' 



" On Thursday in Whitsun Week, he shall find one man 

 working from morning till nones in the Millpond : or, if not 

 required, he shall clean out in deep ditching, two perches and a 

 half, or (15 yards). If any holidays occur on his working days, 

 he shall work every alternate festival. 



"In the I St week of corn harvest, he shall perform 3 works. 

 For each of these he shall mow one selion in the culture, and two 

 more selions in the same by the labour called ' Hunger-bed-rype,' * 

 i.e., without rations from the lord's table. 



" In the 2nd week he will reap and carry 3 roods of wheat 

 called ' corn boon.' 



"But in the 3rd week, he shall in like manner perform 3 works, 

 in which, if it can conveniently be done, there shall be a great 

 harvest bidding, at which he will find 3 men working for a whole 

 day. And he shall march before them, and shall warn them how 

 to work fittirgly, and when they come to the manor in the 

 evening, each of them shall receive one sufficient loaf, and one 

 dish of ox flesh between two of them, and one ' last ' of cheese 

 as is fitting, and sufficient soup and beer. 



In the 4th week, 3 more works are prescribed to be done by 

 his 3 men ; after which they were to be regaled with the same 

 viands as before, with the choice of herrings if preferred. 



" The 5th week much as before. 



'' If he be sick he shall be excused for 3 weeks in winter and 

 summer, and 15 days in the autumn. 



"If he die, the lord shall have his best beast, such as an ox, 



* " Bed-rype," i.e.. Bid-reap, the bidding or summons to reap in harvest. 

 This labour, performed without any allowance of food, was termed "Z^«//^'<;-- 

 bid->eap." 



