212 Customs of the Manor of Winterbonrn Stoke, 1574. 



Stake, one Hundred feet from the Mill ; and not to prejudice the Grounds 

 adjoining to the Mill Streeme. 



" 25. Item : Our Custome is for the Owner of the parsonage for the time 

 Being to find Sufficent Bulls for the Heard of Beast ; and Suificent Boars 

 for the heard of Swine. 



" 26. Item : Our Custome is to Divide the Arrable into three feilds ; to sow 

 two feilds, and Leave one Sommor Fallow. 



" 27. Item : Our Custom is that theTennants' Foulds Goeth a Dead' all over 

 two of the Tennants' feilds once Every Year ; and that the owner of 

 Everey Yard Lande Must provide four Hurdles, and four Shores ; also Everey 

 Tennant to Carry his Hurdles which he Ought to Carry, Immediatly when 

 the Common Fould is to Be Removed. 



" 28. Item : Our Custome is that weast Brook A Bove Court, Bemerhill 

 and Seven Acres Adjoyning, and the Arrable ground Called High Dean, the 

 Hame, are to Be plowed and Sowed Every Year : (to wit) wheat the first 

 Year, Barly the Second Year and Lenten Grain the third Year. 



" 29. Item : Our Custome is that the Heard of Beast are to pass to and 

 fro the Drove two Years ; and the Third Year they are to Pass to and fro in 

 Burdon Feild. 



" 30. Item : Our Custome is for the Inhabitants of Bourton- their Drove is 

 to Go Over High Down, Conygeer,^ from the Third of May to St. Andrew's 

 Day. 



"31. Item : Our Custome is to have all Our Fences Butting a gainst the 

 Drove, to Be Sufficiently Made by the Owner of the Fence against the Mead, 

 called Lamas Mead, and Lot Mead, by March Twenty-fifth Day ; and that 

 all the drove to the Bourton Mead, Be fenced by May the Third Day. 



"32. Item : Our Custome is for the Tennants to Sock'' their Hay, Barly, 

 Oats and Lenting Grain ; and Bind the wheat* for the parsonage.* 



' Dead pen=:sheep fold, not shifted daily (?). This may mean therefore 

 that the two fields were folded all over for manuring (as is still done) by the 

 general flock. 



' A farm in Maddington still connected by dues with W. Stoke. 



^ The road from Shrewton and Maddington to W. Stoke passes over High 



Down ; on which to the left is the remarkable sepulchral earthwork 



" Coneygar," consisting of a deep ditch and bank enclosing several barrows. 



A well-worn track to W. Stoke passes by, or through it. 



'' Is it mis-spelt for cock ? 



* The price of wheat was very fluctuating at this period. In 1573 about 

 Lammas it cost 3*. a bushel ; but by Xmas it rose to 7s. In 1574 the extreme 

 variation was from 64«. to 24«. a qr. ; sinking after harvest to little more 

 than half the average of the previous year ! (Sollinshed, in Baker's Record 

 of Seasons) . 



* Does ' ' parsonage " mean the Parson's collection of tithes in kind ? If so, the 

 following is apposite. When Mr. H. Maslen (late Churchwarden of Shrewton) 

 was a small boy, he was very indignant at seeing the parson's man go over 

 his father's wheat field, and stick a small bough into every tenth shock, to 

 mark it for collection as Vicar's tithes. So when they had all gone, he went 

 round and pulled all the boughs out again. There was a great fuss 1 



