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:o drag straw from the grange to the hayrick, xi. To find 

 3ne woman to wash and shear sheep and lambs, and to do 

 this for nothing, xii. To find a man and woman to reap and 

 3ind corn all the autumn, to receive two repasts a day, but 

 no drink besides water, xiii. To find four persons at the lord's 

 Didding in the time of harvest called c Alebedripe,' (he himself 

 coming the first hour,) to bind the sheaves and make stacks 

 (hulse) of them, and to have two repasts and sufficient beer, 

 dv. The day after he shall find four persons to reap and bind 

 the corn, and have two repasts without beer. xv. He shall find 

 i cart for one day, and shall be fed on that day. xvi. He 

 shall reap, bind, and stack (hullare) an acre of wheat at his 

 awn cost. xvii. He shall present a cock and two hens at 

 Christmas. 



Five other tenants held half a virgate, and were charged 

 with analogous obligations and services. One held a quarter 

 virgate. 



These services are rather onerous, and represent more con- 

 siderable liabilities than I have found elsewhere. But I do 

 not think that, including the rent, the burdens laid on the 

 tenant amounted to as much as fifteen shillings annually. 



There are nine coterells, each holding a cottage, and most 

 of them an acre of land. They pay from two shillings to 

 one shilling a year, and have to perform certain slight services 

 of the same character with those of the tenants in villenage. 



A rental of Farley in Surrey exists in the muniment-room 

 of Merton College for the year 1336. 



Only one free tenant holds alone twenty acres, the rest of 

 the freeholders possessing small tenements. The fixed rent, 

 however, is exceedingly small, and it is probable that the 

 tenants had common rights in the large woodland which 

 belonged to the manor. 



There are two persons registered as freeholders who each 

 hold a farm called Stapleford and Aldhagh, at a yearly rent 

 of five shillings and sixpence and three shillings and fourpence 

 respectively, but the quantity of the estate is not given. 



