COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 1 25 



Friday was being read, containing the words " lolle, telle," which 

 he interpreted as a warrant for him to take double "toll" from 

 his customers' batches. 



Chaucer writes of them in his day : — 



" Wei coude they sielen corne, and tollen thries." 



The following interesting regulations were in force at the 

 manorial mill of Shillington, Beds., in 1255, for the tenants of 

 the Abbot of Ramsey. 



" Each one shall perform suit to the mill to which they shall 

 send their corn. 



" And if on the first day they cannot grind the entire corn, 

 as much as would suffice that day for his family, he is then bound 

 to grind the mill. 



" And if on the same day he cannot grind there, it shall be 

 lawful for him to take back his corn and take it elsewhere at his 

 pleasure. 



" It shall be lawful for each one if he buys his corn, to grind 

 it without challenge at the nearest mill he shall come to. 



"From the Gules of August (ist of August, or S. Peter ad 

 Vincula) unto the feast of S. Michael, it shall be lawful for any 

 one at his pleasure to grind his corn, if he cannot grind his corn 

 at the lord's mill on the day he sends it. 



" Also, if by chance at any time the lord's mill is broken, or 

 the millpond so that he cannot grind, it shall be lawful for him 

 as before, to take his corn elsewhere at his will. 



" But if he shall be convicted, so that in due manner he 

 cannot perform suit to the lord's mill before Judgmetif, he shall 

 give sixpence : and if he shall have suffered judgment, he shall 

 give twelve pence. {Under the provision of ^' Fuisting Poutid." — 

 Ed.) 



" For the whole year he shall grind his corn in the space (time) 

 in which he does not yield toll for wheat (except against Christmas 

 and Easter) for multure. 



" It was the duty of the Reeve to carry the lord's corn to the 

 mill." — Ramsey Chartulary, vol. i., 458, 



