vi] The Tenants and their Land, 1376 — 78. 'j'^ 



in the roll, has withdrawn his chattels from the manors In a roll of 

 1374 there is an order to 'attach' still another fugitive bondman 2. 

 An unusually expligit entry occurs in the roll of 1394, where it is 

 recorded that William Bolytoute is fined I2d. 'because contrary to 

 the statute and to the prohibition of the steward, for the purpose of 

 getting greater gain in the autumn season, he withdrew from the vill 

 and from the lord's domain where he had been dwelling^^.' 



Serfs were also paying * head money ' ichevagium) for license to 

 live outside the manor. Thus in 1376-8 John Rougheye made 

 annual payments of i8</., "pro licentia manendi extra dominium 

 dominae ad terminum vitae'*." In 1394 five serfs paid similar finest 

 In none of the rolls after 1350 are more than 15 serfs recorded as 

 paying chevage in any one year. Yet we have seen*' that between 

 1272 and 1306 chevage was annually paid by some 100 persons 

 called indifferently anelipimen or nativi manentes extra maneriiim. 

 From 1 272- 1 306, \d. was the amount received from each of the 

 chevage-paying bondmen ; but in the later fourteenth and in the 

 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the fines ranged from 3<3f. to 3^-. d^d. 



The distinction between the position of the bondmen who 

 remained outside of the manor during the period from 1272- 1306 

 and the position of those who fled from the manor during the latter 

 part of the same century was perhaps as follows : the former 

 remained outside the manor (i.e. were not tenants of the manor)'' 



ejus, Simonem Herberd Johannem Abotes et Willebnum atte... [natives] dominae per corpora 

 eo quod elongant se extra dominium. 



Et sicut alias, attachiare Johannem filium Bartholomei de Fornesete, Matildam et 

 Avelinam filias Johannis de Galgrym nativos dominae per corpora... se extra dominium 

 dominae. Et omnes alios nativos et nativas dominae qui se elongant, etc' 



^ 'Memorandum ad proximam curiam ad inquirendum sive Ricardus Berteram nativus 

 dominae elongaverit catalla sua extra bondagium dominae necne. [fn margin] Compertum 

 est quod conduxit catalla sua.'_ 



'-* 'Johannes filius Ricardi Baldevv7n manens in Bury, nativus dominae, elongat se extra 

 dominium dominae. Ideo praeceptum est ipsum attachiare per corpus.' 



^ By 25 E. III. Stat. ii. c. 2, it was decreed that no servant 'go out of the town where 

 he dwelleth in the winter to serve the summer, if he may serve in the same town, taking 

 [wages] as before is said. ' 



* Appendix IX. xliii. 



5 'Fines, V\\s. yid. Johannes filius Willelmi Pelet (xviii^.) nativus dominae de sanguine, 

 Alicia filia Johannis Haughne (xli^.), Willelmus Haughne (xl^.), nativi dominae de sanguine, 

 Johannes filius Walteri Bakefyn (xiir/.), Johannes de Fornesete (xiid?.), nativi dominae de 

 sanguine, dant dominae de fine pro licentia comorandi extra dominium dominae usque festum 

 Sancti Michaelis Archangeli proxime futurum, etc. Ita quod sint ad curiam hie tenendam post 

 festum Sancti Michaelis proxime futurum, etc' 



« pp. 45, 46. 



■^ See above, p. 46, n. 2. 



