i] An Elizabethan Survey and Domesday Book. 17 



7o of servile messuages held of °/o of la-^d held of Forncett manor by 



Forncett manor, 1565 {'soiled' servile tenure (former demesne and 



not included) ' soiled ' land not included) 



St Mary's 70 60 



Twanton 38"3 26 



Keklington $8 39I 



Hence the acreage of an average servile tenement was less than 

 that of the average free holding ; the free holding would perhaps 

 average roughly about 50 7o more than the servile-. 



5. The bond tenements^. 



The holdings in Forncett manor at an early period seem to have 

 been extremely small. The list of bond tenements given in the Survey 

 of 1565* reflects, of course, the conditions of a much earlier time. By 

 1 565 the location of some of the tenements had been forgotten. The 

 money payments which each tenement 'was accustomed to render' 

 are recorded ; but the ' other services,' i.e. the labour dues and pay- 

 ments in kind, are not described. Some of the same tenements are 

 mentioned in the Account Roll of 1376-7. The names of some 

 appear as personal surnames in the Subsidy Rolls of 1327 and 1332^, 

 and not in the later records; but the documents are wanting in which 

 the tenements might be traced to an earlier time. It is, however, 

 very probable that the names date from the late thirteenth century^ ; 

 while the tenements as fixed areas chargeable with a fixed amount 

 of dues date from an earlier period. From the fact that each bears 

 a person's name and includes one messuage and often a certain 

 number of acres of meadow as well as of arable, it seems clear that 

 each represents the entire area of terra itativa held of Forncett manor 

 by a single tenant. 



^ This figure is not very trustworthy, see above, p. 16, n. 3. 



- The bearing of this fact on the question of population appears on p. 105. 



^ As the Survey of 1565 shows, only the terra nativa was divided into 'tenements,' which 

 preserved through m^ny generations an ideal unity and a name. 



^ See Appendix IV., Nos. 1-122. 



^ See Appendix V. 



^ Perhaps the tenement known as Ivo Charyers was held by 'Ivo le Carcectarius ' 

 mentioned in the Account Rolls of 1 300 ff. 



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