85 



GLOSSARY. 



Ablactatio, 4 [40]. The weaning of lambs and calves. 

 Used here to denote a period in the making of 

 cheeses. 



AcEBUM, Aces. Steel. 



AcQuiETANCi*, 17 [43]. 4.n acquittance, payment. 



AiGEUM, 60 [48]. An eel spear (ef. Prompt. Parv. «.». 

 algere). 



Allbc. Herring which was either red (cured with 

 salt), or white (dried by the weather). It was ap- 

 parently measured here as elsewhere, by the thou- 

 sand or hundred, and was used, as in later times, as 

 food for agricultural labourers. 



Alico (Fr. alichon), 78 r53]. The shoot which con- 

 ducted the water from the mill dam. 



Allocari, 73 [57]. To have allowance upon an account 

 at the Exchequer. 



Alveus, 49 [20]. A drinking trough 47 [35] ? A hollow 

 shaft. 



Aiivus, 54 [10]. The bucket of the mill-wheel. 



Ambra. a dry measure of four bushels, especially used 

 for salt. 



Apentichtm, 53 [56]. A lean-to building, or pent 

 house. 



Apfbeciabi. See Pbeciari. 



Aquagium, 77 [60]. A water-course. Apparently a 

 toll or due paid by external mills for the use of the 

 stream or for passage by water. 



Aratuba. The operation or customary obligation of 

 ploughing. 



Archa, 67 [59 J. A chest or bin. 



Areraoium, Reragium. The arrears of an account or 

 debt. 



Aeundo, 64 [49]. A reed or rush. 



Aruua, Arrura, Aurura. See Aratura. 



AssAKTABE. To assart. See Assartum. 



AsSARTDM, 17 [11]. Woodland converted into arable by 

 felling and grubbing trees and brushwood. Also 

 the offence of breaking forest ground punishable 

 by fine. 



AvBus (i.e. Affer), a plough-horse. 



BtCA. A hook or link of iron, apparently connected 



with the collar or saddle of the draught horse. 

 Baco. a side or flitch of bacon ; but also the whole 



carcase or live animal when referred to in connec- 

 tion with the larder. 

 Balista, 71 [66]. An arblast or crossbow. 

 Baluva, 38 [20]. The office or jurisdiction of a bailiff. 

 Babb« civitatis, 77 [2J. The barrier, still called ' the 



Bars,' closing the entrance to a city. 

 Bascat (Cornish, hasced ; Welsh, haeged), 60 [37]. A 



vessel of wicker work. 

 Batellus, 60 [24] a barge ; 13 [54] and 68 [29] a punt. 

 Bedelebia, 40 [46]. The office op jurisdiction of a 



beadle. 

 Bedbipa. Service rendered by customary tenants, viz., 



to reap the lord's corn in harvest. 

 Benda, 79 [31]. A clamp or band of iron. 

 Bercabia, Bebchabia. a sheepfold (a permanent 



structure). 

 Bebcabius. a shepherd. 

 Berebettus (i.e. Horderariin). One employed to look 



after the barley and other grain. 

 Bertona, Bebthona {ef. Curia), 21 [37, 58] a farmyard ; 



also a secondary manor or steading, 66 [41]. 

 Besca, Bescha. a spade or shovel, but also means a 



hoe. 

 Biga. a light cart with two wheels. See Carrds and 



Caeeta. 

 BiLA, 54 [8, 17]. The bail, i.e., the arched support of 



the upper millstone. 



Bladum. All kinds of standing com in the blade and 

 oar. 



BoKETTDS, 82 [30]. A bucket. 



BoRDA. A thick plank. 



BoRDELLUS, 64 [7, 8]. A hub or cabin with a small 

 holding attached, just as the ' ootagium ' was the 

 house and holding of the cottar. 



Bosco. ' Pro bosco,' for ' pro forisfacto bosci,* a fine 

 for some trespass on the lord's wood. 



BoTELABiA, 21 [42]. The buttery. 



BoVARiA, BovEBlA. An ox shed or ox stall. 



BovETTUs and Boviculus. A bullock of one, two, or 

 three years of age. 



Boviculus. See Bovettus. 



Bbachia EOTiB. The spokes of a mill wheel that sup- 

 ported the radial blades or ' buckets.' 



Bbaciatuba, Beasiatura. a brewing; materials for 

 brewing, 69 [29]. 



Bbasidu, Bbaseum. Malt. 



Bbecca, 60 [32, 33, 39]. A breach in a river bank. 



Brennius. Bran. 



Breve, 60 [26]. A letter or writ. 



Bbuera, Bruere, 48 [54]. Ling, heath, furze, etc. 



Buke, 30 [43, 47], 32 [21]. A ' buck.' a he-goat. 



Buroabulum, 77 [54-59]. House-gafol in contradistinc- 

 tion to land-gafol. 



BuRGAGlDM. A house or other property held by burgage 

 tenure. 



BUBOCHIUM, 67 [55]. A fish trap, or ' buck.' 



BuscA. Brushwood, or underwood. 



BuTiRUS. Butter. 



Calcea, 21 [61] ; Calcia, 42 [35]. The causeway of a 



mill-dam or fiih-stew. 

 Calibs. Steel. 

 Camera. The chamber. 

 Caminus, 53 [65]. A chimney. 

 Canevacium, Canevaz, 49 [22]. Canvas. 

 Capella, 6 [4] a cloak ; 6 [36] a chapel. 

 Capelli, 71 [65]. Iron caps, or morions. 

 Capistrum. a halter. 

 Capreolus, Caprioius. a kid. 

 Caput calcIjB. See Calcia. 

 Caput. Equivalent to the ' pondus.' 

 Caput jejunii, 2 [67] ; 54 [5j. Ash Wednesday. 

 Oarbo, 17 [52]. Fuel prepared from wood ; charcoal. 

 Cabcabe, 31 [24]. To load. 

 Caebta, Caretta. a cart or wagon (c/. Bioa, Carbus, 



Plaustrum). 

 Caretabius, Cabettabius. A carter ; also a cart horse. 

 Cabinabe, 12 [20]. To clean the fleece, probably by 



the action of combing. 

 Careus. a kind of two-wheeled cart or truck. 

 Caseus. a cheese, of varying size. 

 Oatellus, 42 [23]. See Catulus. 

 Catulus, 18 [28]. A young dog, or whelp. 

 Cedul^, 36 [53]. Apparently for ' cendulas ' — strips of 



wood used to cover the roof of a house, 

 Cebvisia. Ale. 

 Cheriset. Originally an offering of corn at Martinmas. 



Afterwards this due was rendered in all kinds of 



produce. 

 Cellaeium. The cellar. 



Chiphus, 24 [49]. Perhaps for ' cipha,' a sieye. 

 CiCEBA, SiCERA. Cider. 



Cimentaeius, 68 [40, 41] (for Cementarius). A mason. 

 Cimiteeium, 74 [36]. A churchyard. 

 Ci.NGULUM, 74 [46]. A girth. 

 Cippus, 50 [33]. The stocks. 

 CivEEUS, 60 [21]. A shallow wooden tub, locally 



' kiver.' 



