44 



The Demesne. 12 70- -1307. 



[CH. 



The first column of the table gives the net money profits accord- 

 ing to the bailiffs reckoning 1 ; the second column includes the value 

 of grain and stock, reckoned in the way just explained 1 . 



. t. J. 

 101 9 io 

 105 i 



93 ii 'I 

 80 9 3^ 



89 M 3i 



90 16 7| 

 78 9 2\ 

 84 19 i 

 87 14 4k 

 80 3 ij 



125 i i j 

 loo 7 | 



Average : about 



The expenses consisted of a few small rents, the largest being a 

 payment of \6d. as waite-fee 3 for the guard of Norwich castle; of 

 some insignificant customary payments, e.g. ^d. to the plowmen on 

 lemmas-day ; of wages to the lord's agents and to the inferior 

 officers of the manor, as well as to the smith, carpenters, thatchers, 

 plasterers, coopers, and other workmen employed on the demesne; 

 of purchases of iron, steel, salt, grease, tallow, and sundry manu- 

 factured articles. These last included plow-shares, wheelbarrows, 

 wheels for plows and wheelbarrows, forks, spades, hoes or mattocks, 

 axes, clout>, strakes, axle-irons (hurthirons) 4 , wer-irons 5 , nails of 

 variola kinds, hinges, boards, laths, saddles, saddle-bags, leather 



1 ' LiU-ration- mis made in the lord's behalf to persons not connected with the 



manor are, of course, left out of account. 



* At 1 ornrett, the average price of a quarter eight bushels of wheat in the ten \ 



f..r \\hich we have information was 51. \o\d. Calculated from Thorold Rogers' tables, the 

 average price of a quarter of wheat in the same ten years was 5*. 6^d. Hut Rogers has 

 omitted the lo\\ , nfcrior grain while the l-'orncett average is based on all the prices 



quoted, including the low prices at which grain was sold ' ad opus coinitis.' It may therefore 

 be Concluded that the price of wheat was high in Korncett. 



* For waite-fee, see Memorials of S. V/w//;/./.r, R.S., i. 269, 271, and Red Book of 



ccxl. 

 4 I'roUii '1 with Anrft-r, the iron ring in the axle of a cart. 1 lalliwell, Diet, of 



tic and Prtnnnewl Words. 

 ' The meaning of \\. not clear to me. 



