30 The Demesne. 1270— 1307. [ch. 



supplemented by some 200 bushels of toll from the mill. This 

 multure, with some 50 bushels additional, was given to the servants 

 of the court. In some years several bushels were given to the pigs 

 and fowls that were to be fattened for killing, or were mixed with 

 oats and fed to the stotts. Four bushels were allowed for the annual 

 reap-sheaf of the customary tenants. About one-fourth of the issue 

 was retained as seed for the following year, fearely, as many as 

 480 bushels were brewed,^ partly by the customary tenants, and 

 partly by the servants of the court ; (and the beer was either sold or 

 distributed among other of the Earl's manors^ The remainder 

 averaged some 700 bushels, which were sold for some ;^20. 



The return from wheat was about five-fold ^ which, as two bushels 

 or a trifle over were sown to the acre, amounted to 10 bushels as an 

 acre's produce. The yield of wheat, therefore, reached the standard 

 of the treatise on Husbandry-. Occasionally a few bushels were 

 bought, and during the years that the manor of Moulton was in 

 the Earl's wardship, some 240 bushels were added from this source. 

 About a fifth of the issue was used for seed ; the remainder was 

 generally sold, though some quarters might be sent to Attleborough 

 or to Lopham, or paid to the bailiff of the hundred, or, in the case of 

 the coarser grain, be added to the servants' portion of barley. 



In general, however, such wheat as was not used for seed was 

 sold ; this usually amounted to about 400 bushels, worth some £\^. 



The demand for oats on the manor was far greater than for the 

 other kinds of grain. A much smaller proportion was sold, and 

 when large numbers of horses were stabled at Forncett, as during 

 the Earl's visits, the purchases of oats were large. It was doubtless 

 in consequence of the demand for this kind of grain that certain 

 tenements paid oat-rents, amounting altogether to 344 bushels 

 yearly. 



The yield was from three to four-fold^ or from 12 to 16 bushels 

 from the acre, the average thus falling somewhat below the four-fold 



* In 1290 the return for wheat was to the 5th grain + i|bu. 



,, 1293 ,, ,, „ 4th ,, and a half + 3^ bu. 



jj 1300 »» >. >. 5th ,, -2qr. 7bu. 



„ 1303 '» >. '. 5th ,, and a half + 2 qr. 61 bu. 



>, 1306 „ ,, ,, 5th ,, -4bu. 



2 Walter of Henley, 70. 

 ^ In 1 290 the return for oats was to the 3rd grain - i bu. 



j» 1293 ., „ M 4th „ -6qr. 7bu. 



1300 

 1.^03 



1304 

 1306 



3rd „ +5qr. 7bu. 



3i »> +32bu. 



3i »> +3qr. 3^1x1. 



3rd „ - 3 qr. 5 bu. 



