332 Broughton Gifford. 
If tenements mean dwelling houses other than the farm house, 
there are now none on the Manor. Chaldmede is Challymead, as 
we now call it. I do not imagine it was ever part of the Monkton 
estate, but merely held by the Prior at this time. It does not occur 
in the next survey. In the Valor Ecclesiasticus, or great survey 
26 of Henry VIII. 1535, we have: 
“The Manor of Monketon juxta Broughton worth per annum 
Se ey jd 
In rents and farm <s 4 ae ss, ROME HD 
In perquisites of court on an average .. oink SO ane Te 
Total mg £12, 7, arB 
These figures are not without interest, in a comparison of the 
past with the present. Out of the 220 acres which the estate is 
now, and then too most probably was, there were then 1623 arable, 
now there are only 15. The meadow was worth four times as much 
as the arable; a proportion, to which the excellence of the grass 
there, and the general excess of arable over pasture, together with 
the difficulty of transporting grain and want of markets, contributed. 
There were many oxen for team work, now there are none. The 
values at that time, of different descriptions of corn, compared with 
each other, do not vary much from what they are now. But, while 
the value of corn generally has increased about ten times, that of 
the land has increased, the meadow twenty times, the arable eighty. 
The cattle and implements (which cannot be all given, for there 
are none to work the ground) can hardly be compared with present 
values, as so much depends on their condition. But supposing 
the average to be taken, the price of cattle has increased sixty 
fold. 
But the chief interest attaching to these extracts, arises from the 
proof they give of the holding of a court here, and of the active 
exercise of his authority by the Prior, as Lord of the manor, of 
Monkton. In modern times the occupiers of the estate have done — 
suit and service at the court of the Lord of the manor of Broughton, — 
and the exercise of separate manorial rights by the proprietor of 
1Tbid. Here the rents of the tenements are added to that of the land. 
