70 Bradford-upon-Avon. [ The Manor. 
the expenses of processions and other ceremonies on that day. A 
remnant of the observance is still kept up at St. Mary Redcliffe, 
Bristol, where to this day the custom is retained of strewing the ~ 
Church with rushes on Palm Sunday. But how this payment came 
to be regarded as a portion of the revenue of the Lord of the Manor 
it is difficult to say, though possibly from the Monastery of Shaftes- 
bury having been so many years in possession of the Lordship, it 
may have had some ecclesiastical origin in the first instance. 
Brand (Popular Antiquities, 1.121) mentions an example from 
which we learn the high antiquity of offerings similar to the one in 
question. He says,—‘ In the Domesday survey, under Shropshire, 
i. 252, a tenant is stated to have rendered in payment a bundle of 
box twigs on Palm Sunday, —“Terra dimid. car. unus reddit inde 
fascem buxi in die Palmarum.” 
But our Abbess enjoyed from her Manor some more substantial 
advantages than any of these just described. From what have been 
called ‘Feudal Incidents,’ she, like other tenants in capite derived 
considerable emoluments. The principal sources from which such 
advantages were derived were the following :— 
1. Reriers;—these were certain sums of money which a tenant, on 
his entrance on a fief by the death of his predecessor, and being 
of full age, paid to the Lady of the Manor. Before the conquest 
there were no reliefs, but Heriots, paid in kind to the Tenant in 
capite, such as horses, arms, &c., of which we have just given 
some examples. : 
2. Fives on ALIENATION ;—these were sums of money paid by every 
tenant to the Lady of the Manor whenever he had occasion to 
make over his land to another. 
*3. Escurats and Forreirures;—these happened in cases in which 
either a tenant died without leaving behind him any heir who 
could, according to the terms of the original grant, enter upon 
the feud, or in which he committed some act in violation of his 
duty towards his Lord, such as rendered him unfit to be trusted 
as a vassal. In either case the gift, being determined, reverted 
to the giver. 
