338 The Customs of Four Manors of the Abhcy of Lacoclc. 



at a rent of eight shillings seven pence half-penny ; that is to say two shillings 

 at the feast of S. Thomas the apostle, two shillings at the feast of the 

 Annunciation, two shillings at the feast of St. John the Baptist, two shillings 

 at the feast of St. Michael, and at Martinmas sevenpence hajf -penny of the 

 aforesaid [sum] in the name of chirset, if he does not work. And if he works 

 he shall work daily throughout the year, except Saturday, with one man and 

 one horse, at harrowing or carrying throughout the county at his own cost, 

 if without the county at the cost of the lady. And his work is worth from 

 Michaelmas to the feast of St. John, for each day working with one man and 

 one horse one penny. Further, if he do not stub or harrow, he shall 

 thresh and winnow two bushels of wheat, and six of oats. Further, after the 

 feast of St. John he shall find one man with one horse and cart to carry the 

 hay of the lady, and he shall mow the lady's nieadow, and shall lift it, and 

 shall lift and mow in a day one half-acre, and he shall have one handful of 

 the ears which he gathers in the said half-acre, if he will. Further he shall 

 carry the corn of the lady with a horse and cart, dailj' if the lady will, and 

 his work is worth two pence a day when he does not reap, and he shall receive 

 one sheaf at evening, or at noon (20) if he carries no more of the same corn. 

 Further he shall receive six bushels of wheat with his neighbours at the time 

 of mowing, that is to say three bushels for the demesne meadow, and three 

 bushels for the foreign meadow. Further he shall have one wether, or ten 

 pence, and one cheese. Further he shall plough for fallow, {21) on the 

 morrow of St. John Baptist one half-acre, and one fourth part and it is worth 

 three pence, and on the morrow of Martinmas he shall plough one half-acre, 

 and sow it with his own seed, and one fourth part, and shall not sow it, and 

 the ploughing is worth three pence, and the seed sixpence. Further he shall 

 not give in marriage {22) his son or his daughter without the lady's leave. 

 Further he cannot sell his horse or his ox without the lady's leave, and he 

 shall have them at the price fixed by his neighbours. Further if he die {23) 

 the lady shall have the best animal, and if he have no cattle he shall give 

 two shillings and sixpence, and he shall give aid at Michaelmas with his 

 neighbours. Further if he ditch, he shall ditch one perch of even ground 

 and two in mending a ditch, and the perch shall be of fifteen feet and a half. 



Hugh de Hellelake holds a messuage and a virgate doing in all things for 

 the aforesaid messuage and land as the aforesaid William. 



Adam de Hellelake holds a messuage and half a virgate giving annually 

 four shillings at the terms aforesaid, and he shall weed for half-a-day and it 

 is worth one half-penny, and mow for half-a-day and it is worth one penny, 

 and lift for half-a-day, and it is worth one half-penny, and shall mow half-an- 

 acre of wheat and half of oats, and shall receive his wages as a stranger. (54) 

 Further if he have a horse he shall carry hay for one day, and it is worth two 

 pence, and corn for one day, and it is worth two pence, and he shall receive 

 at evening four sheaves. He shall give three hens and one cock (25) at 

 Martinmas and it is worth three pence, and shall give pannage for his swine 

 at Martinmas for a hog above one year one penny, if half-a-year one half- 

 penny. And if he works he shall work from Michaelmas to St. John's Day 

 on every other day, (26) and it is worth one half-penny, and shall do all the 

 works for the time aforesaid, as does William abovesaid in ditching and in 



