126 The Early History of the Upper Wylye Valley. 
Goddingchestiche, Rogediche, Cuslei, Piddewllmede, Forsfelde 
(also Forfelde), Westcampus, Suthcampus, Braddemede. 
Of these names the following are still in use, and the place can 
be identified :—The Ham, Worscombe, Sand Street, Broadmead. 
The name Horloc appears in the list of tenants, and a field on the 
Manor Farm is still called “ Horlock’s.”’ 
In the same way, field-names going back to 1300 can still be 
identified at Mere! and Maiden Bradley.? The total number of 
names of tenants is ninety-eight, which, allowing an average of 
four persons to each household, would give about four hundred 
inhabitants to Longbridge and Crockerton. The name of the 
clergyman (persona, parson) is given as Walter, so this adds an 
earlier name to the list of the clergy given by Hoare, whose list 
begins with the year 1306. A detailed account is given of the 
holding of the ale-feast :— 
“The lord of the Manor may hold three feasts in the year for the estates 
of Longbridge and Monkton. On Saturday, the married men and young 
men come after dinner and are served three times with ale; on Sunday the 
husbands and wives come with their pennies, and they can come back again 
the next day, if they will. The young men must pay a halfpenny (obolus) a 
head if they come on the Sunday; but on the Monday they can come and 
drink for nothing, provided they do not sit on [or perhaps ‘‘ above” the 
bench. Any one of them caught sitting down must pay his half-penny as 
before. These rights, say the jury, belong only to the natives of the manor 
and their children; a stranger who is servant to anyone in the manor, or who 
is staying there, shall have no share in the rights.” 
We may be sure that these curiously minute rules were kept 
strictly, but such feasts must have led to abuses, for just at this 
time the Archbishop forbad the presence of the clergy at them ; and 
a hundred years later Archbishop Langham discountenances them. 
But in the words of Mr. Elton, we must bear in mind 
“the life of the ancient tenantry, their patient struggles with fortune, and 
their rarely seen and somewhat dismal holidays. The Merry England of the 
thirteenth century was a place where there was much to do and little to get; 
and the predecessors of our modern farmers had a great deal of hard work 
with very little in the way of amusement to lighten it.” 

1 Wilts Arch. Mag., xxix., 235. 
* Parish Magazine, Warminster, July, 1903, paper on the early history of 
-Maiden Bradley, with a discussion of the name. 

