WALTEB OF HENLEY 



great that you have to do with him. Have regard to the 

 poor, not to have praise of the world, but to have praise of 

 God, who finds you all. 



SUBVBY YOUR LANDS AND TENEMENTS BY YOUR SWORN MEN. 



Survey your lands and tenements by true and sworn 

 men. First survey your courts, gardens, dove-houses, 

 curtilages, what they are worth yearly beyond the valuation ; 

 and then how many acres are in the demesne, and how 

 much is in each cultura, and what they should be worth 

 yearly; and how many acres of pasture, and what they 

 are worth yearly ; and all other several pastures, and what 

 they are worth yearly ; and wood, what you can sell 

 without loss and destruction, and what it is worth yearly 

 beyond the return; and free tenants, how much each 

 holds and by what service; and customary tenants, how 

 much each holds and by what services, and let customs be 

 put in money. And of all other definite things put what 

 they are worth yearly. And by the surveyors inquire with 

 how much of each sort of corn you can sow an acre of land, 

 and how much cattle you can have on each manor. By 

 the extent you should be able to know how much your 

 lands are worth yearly, by which you can order your living, 

 as I have said before. Further, if your bailiffs or provosts 

 say in their account that so many quarters have been sown 

 on so many acres, go to the extent, and perhaps you shall 

 find fewer acres than they have told you and more quarters 

 sown than was necessary. For you have at the end of the 

 extent the quantity of each kind of corn with which one 

 shall sow an acre of land. Further, if it is necessary to 

 put out more money or less for ploughs, you shall be 

 confirmed by the extent. How ? I will tell you. If your 

 lands are divided in three, one part for winter seed, the 

 other part for spring seed, and the third part fallow, then 



