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Steward and Homage and will not mend it, then the said Tenant 
shall forfaite his estate of such tenement as he shall holde of the 
Ladye, and shall pay a Heriot in form above said. 
XY. Item.—If any Tenant dye between Michaelmas and 
Ladye-Daye then his Exors shall occupy the tenement until 
Ladye-Day paying all rents and duties and also shall enjoy such 
wheat as is sown upon the same, and if he dye after Ladye- 
Day then to occupie the tenement until Michaelmas, paying and 
doing as aforesaid; neverthelesse the next claymer shall have at 
Midsomr. the Hay, the Fallow, and the Sheepe-Leases. 
XVI. Item.—Every Tenant of custom shall at his first entry 
receive a corporal oath to be a true tenant and beare true faith 
to his Ladye, to pay and do all rents, fines, and customs belong- 
ing to his tenure, and to yield with the Homage and be justified 
by the Ladyes Court. 
XVII. Item.—If any Tenant do dwell from his Coppyholde so there 
be a dwelling house upon it without a license expressed in his 
graunt, then he be put in payne xx shillings, x pounds, or more, 
and if upon these paynes he will not be resiant, then he to have 
a payne of forfaiture by judgment of the Homage and Steward. 
XVIII. Item.—No customary Tenant shall retayne or fine any 
other than the Ladye, unless he have a copy of lycense; then 
having a lycense his undertenant must in ali things supply his 
place. 
XIX. Item.—If any Tenant by verdict of the Homage be found 
that he hath not sufficient goods and chattels to answer the 
Ladyes rent and reparacons, then the said Ladye may require 
pledges of the same Homage; and if the tenant cannot find them 
pledges, then it shall be lawful for the Ladye to take the same 
tenement into her own hands. 
XX. Item.—Any customary Tenant may take House-bote,! Fire- 
1 House-bote, &c.; the Anglo-Saxon word ‘ bot’ signifies ‘reecompence’ or 
‘compensation’ and is synonymous with the word ‘estovers’ (from ‘estoffer’ to 
furnish) which is of more frequent occurence in legal documents. /ouse-bote 
and Fire-bote were, respectively, a sufficient allowance of wood to repair or burn 
in the house ;—Plough-bote was an allowance of wood to be employed in repair- 
ing instruments of husbandry. We meet also with Hay-bote, an allowance of 
the same kind for the repairing of hays, i.e. hedges, or fences. 
