CH. 



ii] The Demesne. 1270—1307. 21 



ordinary house of the period contained only a central hall with a 

 chamber on one side and a stable on the other^, there were at 

 Forncett some dozen chambers and outbuildings more or less 

 separated from the main room — the hall 2, and some half-dozen 

 barns and stables. 



Besides the hall, there were the Earl's chamber ^ the knights' 

 chamber^, with an upper room or soler^ — a place of special honour 

 and safety^ — the chapeF, the bailiff's chamber^, the house of the 

 plowmen and carter^ the kitchen^", salser^^, buttery^'-^ and larder^'', the 

 bake-house, with an oven for melting lead^^ the dairy i'', at least three 

 stables^^ a cattle-house", grange ^^, granary^'', hay-house^*', goose- 

 house^i, hen-house22, and pin-fold^-l 



The buildings were of clay^-'; in most cases the roofs were 

 thatched with straw stubble -^ which the prevalent mode of reaping 

 left long; but the hall was thatched with reeds cut from the pond 

 {stagminif^. The walls were also of clay^^, with thatched tops. 

 They surrounded both the outer court^^ and at least in part the 

 inner court or courts '^''. 



^ Wright, op. cit., 14 r, 142. 



2 It is hard to fix the position of the camerae relatively to each other and to the hall. The 

 thatching accounts show that they were under different roofs ; camera servientis and domus 

 servientis appear to be used as equivalent terms. The buildings probably stood about the 

 inner court. In 1293 the officers of the manor account for expenditure 'in factione i. muri 

 inter cameram servientis et domum famulorum, in longitudine i. perticatae et vii. pedum ' ; 

 * in factione i. muri de novo inter aulam et domum sauserii longitudine ii. perticatarum.' 

 Possibly the walls connecting these buildings were the walls of the inner court. 



•^ Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



* Appendix VIII., xxxv. 



^ Appendix VIII., xxxv., ' forinseca camera super cameram militum.' Min. Acc'ts, 



" Wright, op. cH. 148. '' Min. Acc'ts, giSJio. 



^ Appendix VIIL, xl. 



'^ Min. Acc'ts, 935/4, * domus famulorum.' 



^^ Appendix VIII., xl. ^^ Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



^2 Min. Acc'ts, 935/14. ^^ Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



^^ Min. Acc'ts, 935/14. Lead was used for roofs, cisterns, conducting pipes and nails. 

 Rogers, Agric, and Prices, i. 500, 599. 



^^ Appendix VIII., xxxiv. 



^6 Appendix VIIL, xxxv., xl., and Min. Acc'ts, 935/i3> 'longuni stabulum juxta 

 ecclesiam; longum stabulum juxta faldam.' 



^'' Appendix VIIL, xxxiii., xxxiv., xl. ^^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiii., xxxiv. 



18 Min. Acc'ts, 935/4. 



^^ Min. Acc'ts, 935/4. ^^ Min. Acc'ts, 935/11. 



-■■^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv. ^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv., xl. 



^ Appendix VIIL, xl., etc. 



2^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv., xl. ^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv., xxxv. 



'^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv., xl. 



^^ Min. Acc'ts, 935/6. ^ Appendix VIIL, xxxiv. 



