Il8 SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



which has ordinarily characterized breaches of discipline in 

 academical and other bodies. Lythum rambles about at night 

 in bad company, visits houses of ill-fame, and speaks con- 

 temptuously of the authorities of the University. The pre- 

 amble of the act of expulsion comments on the necessity of 

 separating such evil-doers from the body of well-disposed 

 students. The culprit's name must have been formally and 

 effectually erased from the roll of the fellows, as he does not 

 appear in certain lists which were made in the first year of 

 Henry the Sixth, though WykliPs name does, who could have 

 been a member of the college for a very short time only. 



The Notes which are collected in the second volume (pp. 

 608-616) are, it is hoped, illustrative of many social facts. 



We learn from them how a control was exercised over the 

 domestic relations of the villains, by the necessity of fining 

 for licence to marry, to send children to school, to quit the 

 manor permanently, and to proceed to holy orders. These 

 persons were also restrained from purchase or manufacture, 

 except at the lord's discretion, and of course in his interest. 

 Thus the Cambridge tenant was compelled to buy his scythe 

 at Chesterton, and at Pentrek a millstone could be made in 

 the bailiwick by licence only. The Wolrichston accounts are 

 particularly rich in entries implying the social dependence of 

 the villains. Unfortunates committed to prison were, no doubt, 

 in evil case : we read of a woman who died in confinement at 

 Holesle c , of two who were buried from the dungeon at Holy- 

 well d , and the labour paid for at Corff Castle 6 is eminently 

 suggestive. 



In some cases the appointment of the bailiff, and even the 

 internal economy of the manor, is committed to the inhabitants. 

 It is probable, from the entry of the year is67 f , that the 

 Stockton tenants elected their praepositus, as they certainly did 

 in 1286. It is clear that they did so at Clarette g. The homage 

 is consulted on the occasion of making a new mill-wheel at 



c Vol. ii. p. 609. i. a p. 610. i. e p. 609. i. f pp. 608. i., 609. ii. 



* p. 614. ii. 



