210 Oicstoms of the Manor of Winterhourn Stoke, 1574. 



wife's Consent, which she must confess to the Steward, who is to have A 

 Noble* for his Examination. 



" 7. Item : Our Custome is that no Tennant Can Sue a Nother Tennant Out 

 of the Lord's Court for Any Dept Spasse,'- which is under the Valine of Forty 

 Shillings, without the Lord's Licence ; for which privilage fourpence A Yard 

 Lands^ Law Day Monday is paid by the Tennants to the Lord of the Mannor 

 at St. Michael only. 



" 8. Item : Our Custome is Now Not personalis to Do Customes By the Yard 

 Lands, But at the feast of St. Michael only to pay Custome Money By the 

 Yard Lands. 



" 9. Item : Our Custome is that that Everey Coppyhold Tennant do pay 

 the Beasf Live Good at their Death to the Lord for an Herriot.* 



"10th Item: Our Custome is to have Timber, If upon the Premises for 

 Eepairing Edifices and Buildings of their Messuages. 



" 11. Item : Our Custome is to pull Down And Erect what Buildings the 

 Tennant please, without the Lord's Licence or Grant of the Lord. 



"12. Item: Our Custome is for Every Coppyhold Tenant to Eepair his 

 Messuage or Tennement. 



" 13. Item : Our Custome is for the Lord at his Cost Do Maintain a 

 Sufficient pound, and that we allways have a sworn Hayward.*" 



' 6*. 8d. 

 - ? =debts past, or tresspas. 

 ^ This quantity of land, Halliwell says, varied from 15 to 20 acres. It 

 existed after 1800. 1804, " Pd. Collins' boy by the yiLand 3s. 8d. A week's 

 work p' y' Yard Land, 2*. 6d." (Shrewton Accounts). In 1809 Maddington 

 Farm was put up for sale, and described as composed of various "Yardlands," 

 among them the following : — 



2=40a. Ir. 36p. 



2=89a. Or. 30p. 



l=19a. 3r. 20p. 



l|=31a. 3r. 33p. 



(C. S. Euddle). 

 In Huntingdon the average was 30 acres. (Hundred Rolls, Ed. I.). 



•* Probably means Best of live goods (see next note). 

 * A tribute to the lord of whom a tenement is held, usually divided into 

 two sorts : (a) Heriot service, due on a special reservation in the grant or 

 lease ; (b) Heriot custom, depending merely on the custom of the manor. It 

 is sometimes the best beast of which the tenant dies possessed, sometimes 

 the best inanimate good. Supposed to be a Danish custom. If considered as 

 a relic of villein tenure, there was originally less hardship in it, when all the 

 goods and chattels belonged to the lord and he might have seized them even 

 in the villein's lifetime. (Blackttone, Com.). 



" An official, whose duty it is to see that fences (Hay=:a hedge) are kept 

 in repair, to look after stock and impound stray cattle, appointed annually 

 at Court Leet. In Dorset " he drives the common," i.e., drives stock on it 

 together to impound any that have no right there. (Dial. Diet.). The 

 " Orders of Shrewton " {Wilts Arch. Mag.) provide for a Hayward. 



