68 The Tenants and their Land. 1272 1306. [CH. 



holdings would tend to become divided, and the services formerly 

 rendered by a single tenement would later be performed by two or 

 more. The account rolls indeed bear traces of a time when the 

 number of tenements rendering week-work was smaller than that 

 indicated in the table. According to the table, 25 or 26 tenements 

 owed week-work from September 29 to August i. But it is notice- 

 able that in computing the number of the several kinds of services 

 and payments due from the manor the number 21 \ was, in many 

 cases, taken as the basis of calculation. Thus 1505 winter works 

 were due from the manor, that is, 70 works from each of 2\\ tene- 

 ments 1 . The 245 summer works charged upon the manor are not so 

 evidently calculated upon this basis ; 10 summer works seem to have 

 been the full quota due from a single tenement 2 . It would have 

 taken 21^+3 tenements to perform the whole number laid upon the 

 manor. Forty-three summer works were allowed for the mowing of 

 the demesne meadows, perhaps two works from each of 2\\ tene- 

 ments. Forty-three cartings of manure were also due ; 21, later 21 \ 

 quarters of malt were due, and the table on pp. 60, 61 shows that 

 I quarter was regularly paid by a single tenement ; 43 \ quarters of 

 oats were due, but, in this case, \\ quarters was the full amount 

 usually imposed upon one tenement. Forty-three autumn cartings 

 were due, but here again it must be admitted that the evidence of 

 the rolls of 1376-8 does not point to the distribution of this form of 

 service among only 21 \ tenements, but among a considerably larger 

 number. Averagia, autumn works, and payment of hens were 

 certainly rendered by sokemen 3 . It is not therefore surprising that 

 they are not calculated upon the basis of 2\\ customary tenements. 



The table on p. 67 indicates that the number of tenements 

 charged with winter and summer week-work was considerably less 

 than the number of tenements charged with such dues as arcra^ia 

 and autumn cartings. 



The area burdened with week-work may be roughly estimated 



at 125 acres, while the area charged with lighter labour dues, but 



from week-work during at least three-fourths of the year, may be 



1 Cf. table, pp. 60, 61 which shows that 70 was the number of winter works regularly 

 <lue from a tenement. 

 * See table, pp. 60, 6 1 . 



Appendix VIII. xl., xli. and other Ministers' Accounts. The 



Account K vijx i\. i x j.. an( j a f ew of t j lc car jj er R O H S f a n to ma ] <e tne 



usual ,tless correct distinction ln-tween works rendered by customers and works 



rendered by sokemen. Thi> f.iihne probably signifies nothing more than carelessness on the 

 pan of the accountant- clerk N. 



