vi I The Tenants am/ their Laint. 1^76 78. 73 



in the roll, has withdrawn hi-, < hattelfl from the manor 1 . In a roll of 

 Is an order to 'attach' still another fugitive bondman 3 . 

 An unusually explicit entry occurs in thr roll of 1394, \vli- 



uled that William Holyloulr \S fined \2d. M 

 the statute and to the prohibit ion of the steward, for the pnrpo 



ing greater ;;ain in the autumn season, he withdrew from the vill 

 and from the lord's domain where he had been dwelli; 



Serfs were also paying ' head money ' (chevagiuiri) for license to 

 live outside the manor. Thus in 1376-8 John Rougheye made 

 annual payments of 18^., "pro licentia mancndi extra dominium 

 dominae ad terminum vitae 4 ." In 1394 five serfs paid similar fit 

 In none of the rolls after 1350 are more than 15 serfs recorded as 

 pa\-ing chevage in any one year. Yet we have seen" that between 

 1272 and 1306 chevage was annually paid by some 100 persons 

 called indifferently anclipimcn or nativi manentes extra manerium. 

 From 1272-1306, id. was the amount received from each of the 

 chevage-paying bondmen ; but in the later fourteenth and in the 

 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the fines ranged from 3^. to $s. 4^. 



The distinction between the position of the bondmen who 

 remained outside of the manor during the period from 1272-1306 

 and the position of those who fled from the manor during the latter 

 part of the same century was perhaps as follows : the former 

 remained outside the manor (i.e. were not tenants of the manor) 7 



ejus, Simonem Herberd Johannem Abotes et Willelmum atte... [natives] dominae per corpora 

 eo quod elongant se extra dominium. 



Et sicut alias, attachiare Johannem filium Bartholomei de Fornesete, Matildam et 

 Avelinam tilias Johannis de Galgrym natives dominae per corpora. ..se extra dominium 

 dominae. Et omnes alios natives et nativas dominae qui se elongant, etc.' 



1 'Memorandum ad proximam curiam ad inquirendum sive Ricardus Herteram nativus 

 dominae elongaverit catalla sua extra bondagium dominae necne. [In margin] Compertum 

 est (|uod conduxit catalla sua.' 



- 'Johannes filius Ricardi Baldewyn manens in Bury, nativus dominae, elongat se extra 

 dominium dominae. Ideo praeceplum est ipsum attachiare per corpus.' 



:< By 25 E. III. stat. II. c. 2, it was decreed that no servant 'go out of the town where 

 he dwelleth in the winter to serve the summer, if he may serve in the same town, taking 

 [wages] as before is said.' 



4 Appendix IX. xliii. 



Fines, vii.s-. \d. Johannes lilius \Villelmi 1'elet (xviiu/.) nativus dominae de >.inguine, 

 Alicia filia Johannis Haughne (xiir/.), Willelmus Ilaughne (xl</.), nativi dominae de sanguine, 

 Johannes lilius Walteri Bakefyn (xii</.), Johannes de Fornesete (xiu/.), nativi dominae de 

 sanguine, dant dominae de fine pro licentia comorandi extra dominium dominae usque festum 

 Sancti Michaelis Archangeli proxime futurum, etc. Ita quod sint ad curiam hie tenendam pt 

 festum Sancti Michaelis proxime futurum, etc.' 



" 1>1>- 45, 46- 



7 See above, p. 46, n. 2. 



