SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



Enfield, 12 though no free tenants are mentioned in our earliest account 

 of the manor in the time of Henry VI, in an Elizabethan syllabus of 

 all the free tenants in Middlesex, twenty-three are enumerated there ; 

 seven at Drayton ; four at Fulham ; eleven at Stepney and Hackney ; 

 and four at Harmondsworth. Neither Isleworth, Teddington, nor 

 Kensington is given in the list at all. 1 ' 



On some manors there were special tenures as to which the 

 information derived from compotus rolls and even from custumals is not 

 always very definite. Generally they are differentiated from the other 

 tenants by doing a given number of works at a particular season, some- 

 times by different customs as to heriot and inheritance. Thus at 

 Harmondsworth there are seven tenants, undistinguished by any special 

 name, who render two works weekly between Michaelmas and 

 Martinmas. 14 



There are several of these tenures at Isleworth. Eight custumary 

 tenants held Forapellond. They had to attend the waterbedrippe, and 

 they paid money rents as well. 15 



' Bordlond ' was held by twenty-one custumary tenants in Twicken- 

 ham. Their united rents amounted to 5 15*. 6^/., and the net value of 

 their services was $d. a head. They held at a certain rent and tallage, 

 and paid heriots of 2s. or is. according to the size of their holdings. 

 They paid pannage and had to plough and harrow half an acre each at 

 the winter sowing, fetching the seed from the grange ; in return for 

 which they each received id. ; besides sending two men to one bedrippe 

 at the lord's expense. 16 ' Bordlond' occurs at Fulham, but is only men- 

 tioned in the court rolls without any details as to the nature of the 

 tenure there. 



The tenants of ' Werklond ' did the same ploughing works as the 

 holders of ' Bordlond,' and they rendered 420 works during the fourteen 

 weeks between Midsummer and Michaelmas, at the rate of three half 

 days a week, in return for an allowance of half their rent, amounting to 

 is. ^d. for each virgate. 17 The nature of the works done varied consider- 

 ably, probably at the discretion of the reeve. Should they be kept 

 beyond noon, they received id. each. These holdings passed by inheri- 

 tance to the youngest son. 



There were also at Isleworth six villein holdings, held for rent and 

 services, ' misfre ' or ' unfre ' lands. The tenants ploughed, harrowed, 

 sowed and carried grain to the field, receiving zd. each, and sent 

 two men to two bedrippes, who had one meal of bread, fish and 

 cheese. If they had no beast they paid money heriots of zs. for a 

 virgate and is. for half a virgate. The eldest sons inherited. 18 In the 

 Isleworth accounts for the reign of Edward III custumers called 'gader- 



11 P.R.O. Mins. Accts. (Duchy of Lane.), bdle. 42, No. 825. 



u EM. Harl. MS. 1711. " P.R.O. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 1 1, No. 25. 



"P.R.O. Inq. 28 Edw. I, No. 44; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vi, App. 232. 



18 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vi, App. 232 ; P.R.O. Inq. 28 Edw. I, No. 44. 



" P.R.O. Mins. Accts. bdle. 916, Nos. n, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20. 



18 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vi, App. 232. 



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