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The Demesne. 1270 — 1307. 



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Less than 47o of the horses and only 375 7o o^ the cattle were 

 lost by deaths 



Pigs were kept in seven out of these thirteen years. In some 

 years the number of pigs was small — from 5 to lo ; in 1363 and 1304 

 it was 100 or more. In 1286, 48 pigs were received from the reeves 

 of Haneworth, Lopham, Halvergate^, and Framlingham Parva. 

 These were killed for the earl's larder, and, together with the 

 carcasses of 22 cattle, also from other manors, delivered to the reeve 

 of Caister. This instance illustrates how, in case of necessity, the 

 earl might collect a considerable quantity of provisions from his 

 scattered manors without seriously burdening any one of them. The 



^ Compare with conditions on the manors of the Bishop of Winchester in 1208-9, where 

 about 1 4^/0 of the horses were lost by murrain and a little more than lo^o of the cattle died. 

 Hall, Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester^ pp. xxxxi.-xxxii. 



2 20 pigs from Halvergate were kept two weeks and consumed 41^ bushels of peas; 14 pigs 

 from Haneworth were kept one week and were fed 5 bushels of peas. 1 2 bushels of coarse 

 barley were also consumed by the pigs that were being fattened for the larder, presumably 

 these same 34. Min. Acc'ts, 935/1 1. 



