By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 69 
mately commuted for a money payment. The following extracts 
from the record of 1629 will illustrate our remarks. 
*Watter Gravnt holdeth by fealty, suite of Court, and 4s. 1d. rent, and 1b. 
of wax ;—one burgage in St. Olaves Street pr rent 13d.,—one messuage with a 
Dovecote in the same street pr rent 12d.,—and one other house, sometimes a 
backhouse, pr rent 2s.; in all 4s. 1d.” 
“DANIEL YeRBURY holdeth freely [certain lands therein described at Wrax- 
all] by Knight-service, and 13s. rent, and one mounctuary* viz., one horse 
with his harness, suite of Court to the Hundred and Court of the Manor, 
and 2s, yearly for certain works to be done yearly in earinge+ of two acres of 
the Lord’s land at seed time, and carriage of three load of hay for the Lord from 
Michel Mead to Barton Farme, which work were time out of mind turned to 
[deest] rent pr ann. in lieu thereof.” 
‘¢ HLIZABETH BLANCHARD, SUSAN BLANCHARD, and JOANE BLANCHARD, sisters 
and coheirs of Joun Brancwarpd.. . . hold freely, one messuage and four yard- 
lands with their appurts called Great Ashley, by the service of a fourth part of 
a Knight's fee and 10s. rent, and 2s. for earinge four acres of the Lord’s land 
yearly, and by suite of court to the Court of the Hundred of Bradford from 
three weeks to three weeks, and yielding a mounctuary, viz., one horse with 
saddle and bridle after the death of the tenant: and also one other messuage 
and four yardlands with the appurts, called Budbury, as of the foresaid manour 
by the like service of the fourth part of a Knight's fee and 20s. rent, and for 
Larder Money} 5s., and suite of Court and mounctuary as before.” 
One payment to the Lord, for the time being, it is not easy to 
account for. Among the items of revenue we find entered ‘ Money 
called Pal/mson money, paid yearly at Easter.’ This would appear 
to be ‘Palm Sunday’ money, a payment due on or about that day. 
It seems to have been levied on all the Tythings except the Borough 
and Trowle. Were it simply an ecclesiastical payment due to the 
Rector or Vicar, or Churchwardens, we could the more readily 
understand it. In Churchwardens’ accounts in olden times we 
often find among the disbursements, the cost of fitting up the Church 
against Palm Sunday, and offerings were made by the people for 
* Mounctuary i.e. Mortuary. This was a payment made on the decease of a tenant. The difference 
between a Mortuary and a Heriot, was, that the latter was paid as a token of subjection to the feudal 
Lord, the former as a supposed compensation for tithes omitted to be paid to the Rector, As our Abbess 
occupied both of these positions in Bradford, she, of course, enjoyed both privileges. Hart’s ‘ Eccle- 
siastical Records,’ p. 305. 
+ Laringe i.e. ploughing ; as in Exod. xxxiv. 21, ‘In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.” 
Yr6-land or EarS-land is an expression often used in Anglo-Saxon charters for ploughed land. 
+ Larder Money, (lardarium) ; this payment, which seems to have been peculiar to this Manor, is 
said to have been a final yearly rent paid by the tenants for liberty to feed their hogs with the mast 
of the Lord’s woods, the fat of a hog being called lard. Or it may have been a commutation for some 
customary service of carrying meat to the Lord’s larder, as this was called ‘ lardarium’ in old charters. 
Jacob's ‘ Law Dictionary,’ ‘‘ Larding Money.” 
