26 ///< Av//<\v//r. 1270 1307. [CH. 



The reap-reeve and cart-reeve were charged with humbler 



< ultural services, tlic performance of which was limited to the 

 harvest season. They were elected in the manor court. 



Near the church ami between the manor court and the meadow 



that bordered on the beck, lay the gardens 1 . They were surrounded 



by walls'; a ditch ran between one garden and the meadow'. They 



as much orchards as gardens in the modern sense, for their 



t marketable products were apples and cider 4 . The yield of these 



very irregular. In some years the bailiff and townspeople 



:ied that n<> cider had been made ; often nothing was sold from 



the gardens". On the other hand, in 1273, 351 gallons of cider were 



sold for over 1 7 , and in another season 76 bushels of apples were 



gathered \ As a rule the apples were either sold or sent to Lopham' 1 . 



Not far from the hall was a vineyard 1 ". 



The chief source of income to the lord of the manor was the 

 produce of the arable demesne. This lay for the most part in 

 cett, though there were a few acres in Tacolneston, Moulton, 

 and Wacton. 



Its location, in so far as it lay in Forncett, is shown on the map, 

 and exhibits some noteworthy features. 



First, near the manor house in St Mary's, near, that is, to the 

 nucleus of Forncett manor, was a large block of land known as 

 the Hall Close, or Mall Croft, while not far off were other blocks, each 

 veral acres. 



Second, excepting these pieces, a very large proportion of the 

 arable demesne lay on the outskirts of the manor, and was assart, 

 /.< land brought into cultivation at a comparatively late period 11 . 



Third, only a very small proportion of the demesne consisted 

 of scattered acre or half-acre strips, the rest being in blocks of 

 considerable - 



Fourth, as has been said, there was very little demesne in the 

 free hamlets of Eastern Twanton. 



fields (<w ;;///) of \Yestwood Ridding and of Hall Close were 



gardens an 1, the ' magnum gardinum,' and 'gardinum juxta ecclesiaiu.' 



Acc'ls, 935/11. 



: '*. 935/M- 9.15/U- 3 Mi"- Aoc'ts, 9354, 935/17. 



also 935/16, '6/. He veteribus pomnrii.s...in gar-lino .!< T.icolneston.' 



* Min. .Ur'is. 935 14. 

 Appvn-lix V1I1 8 Mill. A 5/8. 



Acc'ts, 935 ; , 2 . 



Bidding, tli. , Tliarst.,n \V,.,,1 (XII. r,, St Peter's), 



Bolkarriddiog (III. : : .,f limmewcxxl (IV. 7. St Mary's) and 



probably the strips -south uf I'.romewood (IV. f>. St Mary\). 



