vii] The Tenants and their Land. 1400 — 1575. 93 



of five messuages and 52 acres. In 1487 his son died, seized of five 

 messuages, two half-messuages, and 60 acres. In 1500 there were 

 three tenants of this name. One died without descendants. He held 

 two messuages and 1 10 acres. His money bequests amounted to 

 between £<^ and £\o. He left a legacy to a woman servants 



The second tenant held at his death one messuage and 5 J acres. 

 His bequests in money came to \2s?- His son seems to have been 

 one of the chevage-paying serfs. 



The third tenant was seized of seven messuages, two half- 

 messuages, and 86 acres. It was the oldest son of this tenant who, 

 in 1556, was manumitted, together with his children ^ 



Within the fifteenth century, so far as the records show, no 

 member of this family withdrew from Forncett. But in the sixteenth 

 century there were two chevage-paying bondmen, who were probably 

 sons of the tenants already mentioned. 



The Forncett Family. Just before his death in 1429 a tenant 

 of this name ' surrendered ' to his daughter one messuage and 

 15 acres. In 1435 another tenant alienated \\ acres. This is the 

 last occasion on which the family name of Forncett appears in 

 the conveyances of land. Apparently no one of the name paid 

 chevage. 



The Grey Family. In 141 2 William Grey died, seized of one 

 messuage, two pightles and ten and a half acres. His land was 

 inherited by his daughter. 



The Haughne Family. One member of this family paid chevage 

 in 1400 and 1401. In the fifteenth century three tenants held small 

 quantities of land. In 1501 the last of these died, seized of 13 J 

 acres, which passed to his daughter and heir. He bequeathed 3^. 6d. 

 to religious uses ; left to his wife a croft and 2 J acres, part of the 

 barn, the west end of the hall with the chimney and the soler 

 thereover, and half the fruit garden 1 



The Herberd Family. Within the first half of the fifteenth 

 century three tenants of this name held from 4^ to 13^ acres. The 

 branch of the family that remained on the manor seems to have 

 failed in the male line by 1444 ; at any rate the land did not pass to 

 male heirs. In the early years of the fifteenth century three serfs 

 paid chevage. Of these one seems to have returned to the manor as 

 a tenant, one fled, and the orders to * attach ' him seem never to 

 have been executed. 



1 Appendix XIII. Ixxix. ^ Appendix XIII. Ixxxi. 



^ Appendix XIII. Ixxxiv-lxxxvi., xc-xci. * Appendix XIII. Ixxviii-lxxix. 



