334 The Customs of Four Manors of the Abbey of Lacoek. 



wheat ; and each must work each day except Saturday from the Nativity of 

 St. John to Michaehiias, and if they work throughout the year, then they 

 must woi'k every second day from Michaehiias to the Nativity of St. John 

 and if there shall be two feast days in the week, the lady shall have one 

 fe:ist-day, and the villans the other, and afterwards they must work from the 

 Nativity of St. John to Michaelmas, as is aforesaid ; and if they work 

 throughout the year they shall give at Michaelmas 16d. And be it known 

 that they shall have for their meadow-mowing one cheese and one sheep : 

 and each shall have one loaf ; and all who wash and shear the sheep shall 

 have one cheese in common. And each one shall have for his carrying of 

 corn, each day one sheaf ; and if they carry corn from Cinuba, (1) on the 

 north aide of Hartbury, then they must come five times in the day to the 

 grange, and if they carry corn from Midles, then they must come seven times 

 in the day to the grange. And be it known that Tunmede must be mown 

 in two days and Benemede in two days and sis acres of meadow in a day. 

 And if they carry at Lacoek from Martinmas to the Hockeday, it shall count 

 to them for two days' work, and from the Hockeday to Martinmas for one 

 day's work. And if they are to thresli : if they are threshing wheat, they 

 must thresh two bushels in the day, and if they thresh man-corn (2) two 

 busliels ; and if they thresh barley, three bushels ; and if oats, they must 

 thresh one quarter. And if they do carrying at Caneford, it shall stand for 

 three days' work, and at Hampton the same, and the same at Bristol. 



Amount 51. 9s. 6d. 



Total amount of rent 9/. 9s. 9d. 

 Hodierna the widow, William the shepherd, Henry the shepherd, Richard 

 the ploughman, Stephen the ploughman, William Knap : each holds four 

 acres, at a yearly rent of 2s. 6d. at the four terms, at each term l^d., and 

 they must work every day from the Nativity of St. John to Michaelmas : and 

 if they are to work throughout the year, then they must work every second 

 day from Michaelmas to the Nativity of St. John, and if there shall be two 

 feast-days in the week the lady shall have one, and the men the other : and 

 they shall work from St. .John's Day to Michaelmas as is aforesaid ; and if 

 they work throughout the year they shall give at Michaelmas 7^d. And if 

 any [of them] shall be ploughman he shall be rent-free and shall plough . . . 

 eight acres each year with the lady's plough, and he shall have one penny to 

 find timber for the plough. And they all shall have one fleece in common, 

 each shall have one loaf for the meadow-work as do the virgaters, and each 

 [shall give] three hens and a cock for chirset. 



Amount lis. 6d. 

 Osbert the smith holds four acres of land and therefore must make ready 

 the irons for three ploughs of the lady of the lady's iron, and shoe one 

 horse of the lady at his own cost, and he shall mow with the others, and have 

 the customs therewith, as do the other mowers, and he shall give twelve 

 pence yearly for the pannage (.3) of his beasts, and shall have yearly four 

 pence to mend his bellows, and at his death he shall leave two tongs and 

 two bellows and two great hammers, and one lesser, and he shall have his 

 customs as do the mowers. 



[Four cottagers — Hugo the shepherd, Thomas Lupilun, Eoger Shepherd, 



