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Southfield, of 42 acres, is now Lewisham Park, with the allot- 
ment ground hard by. It is mentioned in the Court Rolls of 1335, 
when John Sutor was fined 4d. for allowing his swine to run 
therein. 
Westfield and Northfield are also named in the Rental of 
Edward II’s reign, but their position cannot now be determined. 
The former may be identical with Pzckthornes, the great field of 
64 acres at Forest Hill, in the centre of which Christ Church now 
stands. The field is also mentioned in the same rental. Northfield 
may be the great field of nearly 40 acres called Strodes, which is 
now the Ladywell and Deptford Cemetery. 
Another manor field was Clangors, the ground of about 
32 acres at the back of the Pound at Rushey Green. 
Certain lands in the manor were charged with providing 
ploughshares for the ploughs of the lord. Eighteen of these are 
shown as due yearly, valued at gd. each. Other lands owed 
**Waldgavel,” or wood rent, the sums being small, e.g., Robert de 
Catford, for the third part of Thurbarneshide, paid 2d.; Henry de 
Rombergh, for his part of the same hide, 13d.; Richard Copehod, 
for his part of Copehodeshide, 14d.; William and Adam Atte 
Ford, for their part of Potteshide, 2d.; etc. 
The whole rental, excepting the redemption of Waldgavel 
and the services due in Cassemede, came to £ 28 os. 8d. 
The names of the various mills along. the Ravensbourne in 
the early part of the 14th century occur frequently on the manor 
rolls :— 
Toddelesmill - Now called the Silk Mill, near Lewisham 
Station. 
Semannesmill - Belonging to the Bridge House, and pro- 
; bably that now called Riverdale. 
Slagravesmill - This must have been near Ladywell. Sla- 
grave is now the Bermondsey Union 
Workhouse. 
Fordmill - - Probably Catford Mill. 
Freremill - - Probably at Bellingham. 
Knappemill - | 
Livingesmill  - Apparently at Southend. 
Shrafholtemill -| 
Pumfretesmill - 
At the time the Court Rolls were written the lord of the 
manor was to a large extent supreme within his own manor and 
held his court, which took cognisance of almost all matters which 
related to the daily life and well-being of the tenants. At the 
same time it must be remembered that the whole was governed by 
custom—that appeal to what had gone before, to what had always 
been done—and consequently much that seems strange, harsh, 
and vexatious to us would have been regarded by our predecessors 
