< ii. ii I Tlit- Demesne, \ 170 -1307. 



ordinary house <>f the period contained only a central hall with a 

 chamber on <>ne side and a stable on the other 1 , th- 

 Korncctt some do/en < hambers and outbuildings more or 

 separated from the main room -the hall', and sonic half-d 

 barns and stab! 



Hcsides the hall, there were tin- Karl's chamber \ the knights' 

 chamber 1 , with an upper room or soler' a place of special honour 

 and safety 6 the chapel 7 , the bailiff's chamber 8 , the house of the 

 plowmen and carter", the kitchen 1 ", salser 11 , buttery 1 - and larder 11 , the 

 bake-house, with an oven for melting lead 14 , the dairy 15 , at least three 

 stables'", a cattle-house 17 , grange 18 , granary 111 , hay-house 20 , goose- 

 house- 1 , hen-house-, and pin-fold"'. 



The buildings were of clay 24 ; in most cases the roofs were 

 thatched with straw stubble- 5 , which the prevalent mode of reaping 

 left long ; but the hall was thatched with reeds cut from the pond 

 (sfdgnninY*. The walls were also of clay 27 , with thatched tops. 

 They surrounded both the outer court- 8 , and at least in part the 

 inner court or courts 2 ". 



1 Wright, op. lit., 141, 142. 



2 It is hard to fix the position of the canicrae relatively to each other and to the hall. The 

 thatching accounts show that they were under different roofs ; camera servientis and domtis 

 ssn-icntis appear to be used as equivalent terms. The buildings probably stood about the 

 inner court. In 1293 the officers of the manor account for expenditure 'in factione i. muri 

 inter cameram servientis et domum famulorum, in longitudine i. perticatae et vii. pedum ' ; 

 ' in factione i. muri de novo inter aulam et domum sauserii longitudine ii. perticatarum.' 

 Possibly the walls connecting these buildings were the walls of the inner court. 



:J Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



4 Appendix VIII., xxxv. 



5 Appendix VIII., xxxv., ' forinseca camera super cameram militum.' Min. Acc'ts, 



935 l2 - 



K Wright, op. cit. 148. 7 Min. Acc'ts, 935/10. 



Appendix VIII., xl. 



!l Min. Acc'ts, 935/4, 'domus famulorum.' 



10 Appendix VIII., xl. n Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



J - Min. Acc'ts, 935/14. 13 Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl. 



14 Min. Acc'ts, 935/14. Lead was used for roofs, cisterns, conducting pipes and nails. 

 ^Rogers, Agric. and Prices, i. 500, 599. 



15 Appendix VIII., xxxiv. 



!li Appendix VIII., xxxv., xl., and Min. Acc'ts, 935/13* ' longum slalmlum juxta 

 ecdcsuun ; longum stabulum juxta faldam.' 



17 Appendix VIII., xxxiii., xxxiv., xl. 18 Appendix VIII., xxxiii., xxxiv. 



1:1 Min. Acc'ts, 935/4. 



- 1 " Min. Acc'ts, 935/4- ai Min. Acc'ts, 935/11. 



-- Appendix VIII., xxxiv. \ppendix VIII., xxxiv., xl. 



31 Appendix VIII., xl., etc. 



-"' Appendix VIII., xxxiv., xl. w Appendix VIII., xxxiv.. xxxv. 



\!>peiidix \ III., xxxiv., xl. 

 -" Min. Acc'ts, 935 6. * Appendix VIII.. xxxiv. 



