86 Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 



working day (if twelve days are omitted for Sundays and feasts) 

 was utilised for hauling manure. The charge made for a man with 

 his cart and two horses was \d. more per day, than that made for 

 two men and a team of oxen and it would almost seem that the 

 escheator had lent his cattle, at the same time that if, as is generally 

 supposed, the area covered by a team of oxen in all kinds of work 

 was one acre per diem, then the charge made by John de "Weston 

 was at the same I'ate — sixpence per acre — as that paid byagreement 

 according to the first item). 



Report of a Jury on the Extent and Annual Value of the Manor in 1309} 



£* s. d. 



Chief messuage, curtilage, garden, and orchard 18 



Dovecot 2 



210 acres, arable in the vale ; 60 @ 8(/., 30 @ 6rf., 120 at 4(/. 4 15 



250 „ „ on the hill @ 2d. 2 18 



80 „ meadow @2s. 8 



A private pasture called PodenhuUe 5 



„ „ „ on the hill for 600 sheep 2 10 



A grove, in timber and herbage 6 8 



Eents. 



10 free-tenants paying per annum 4 2 

 1 ,, ,, „ also at Michs. 1 lb. cummin or 0^ 



11 virgators with one virgate each, of 24 acres 4 15 1 

 28 „ „ i „ „ 5 16 11 

 24 cottiers 2 2 7 



Services. 



11 virgators, 38 days, Michs. to Midsummer, at \d. 17 5 



„ „ 17 „ Midsummer to Aug. 1 „ ^d. 7 9^ 



34 „ Aug. 1 to Michs. „ \d. 1 11 2 



28 half-virgators, the same days, periods, and rates 7 3 6 



19 cottiers, small services or 2d. at Michaelmas 3 2 



1 „ 16 days in autumn @ \d. 14 



The virgators, half-virgators, and cottiers give to the lord 



at the feast of St. Dionysius 2 



And at the feast of St. Martin for Churchsete 6 8 



Pleas and perquisites of the courts 10 

 Hugo de Carswell, holding 16 acres in Yatesbury, pays to 



Thomas Averay at Michaelmas 10 



Total value £54 13 2 



' Ghanc. Inq. p. m., 3 Edw. II., No. 49. 



