THE OFFICE OF SENESCHAL 93 



without the lord's warrant. And no one who comes to the 

 manor, for the lord or without the lord, may be at the 

 expense of the manor, unless the bailiff wish to pay it 

 from his own purse. And let the bailiff be appointed 

 money wages for his needs, so that he may take nothing 

 from the manor but straw, hay, and firewood. 



The bailiff must see that there be good watch at 

 the granges over the threshers, and that the corn be 

 well and cleanly threshed, and that the straw be well 

 saved in good stacks or cocks well covered, and that no 

 forage be sold from the manor, but let the forage and fern, 

 if there be any, be thrown in marshy ground or in roads to 

 make manure. And no stubble should be sold from the 

 manor, but let as much as shall be wanted for thatching be 

 gathered together, and the rest remain on the ground and 

 be ploughed with the ploughs. 



And the bailiff ought to oversee the ploughs and the 

 tillage, and see that the lands are well ploughed with small 

 furrows, and properly cropped, and well sown with good 

 and pure seed, and cleanly harrowed ; and all the winter 

 seed may be bought by warrant of the writ of the lord or 

 seneschal, for this is a point that must have warrant ; and 

 all the spring seed may be sown from his own store, if 

 cheapness does not prevent him by the order from a writ. 



Let nothing on the manors which ought to be sold be 

 taken by the people, but let it be sent to fairs and markets 

 at several places, and be inspected and bargained for, and 

 whoever will give the most shall have it ; for it is not chattel 

 of death, or of war, or sold from the king's pinfold. 



No seneschal or bailiff, or servant, or provost, or bedel, 

 or hayward, should take for money, or through any sale, 

 anything from the manors of which he is keeper ; for they 

 ought not, by right, to buy the things or take for price what 

 they themselves ought to make profitable and sell. No bailiff 

 shall allow any horse or aver, ox or cow, young beast, wether 

 or ewe, or hog in his charge to be flayn before it be seen for 



