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is let on lease ' at the lord's will,' for which the rents amount in 1268 to 

 jTi 41. 6d., and in 1279 to 3 4^. 6d. There are also lands dimissae 

 ad seminand'.* 1 



The custumal and rental of the manor of Friern Barnet 63 was re- 

 vised in 1 506-7. In all but four cases the tenants paid a money rent 

 and were charged with carrying and ploughing services and boon-works as 

 well. Two holdings paid a money rent only, and two paid no rent and 

 owed only carrying services. None of the services were sold except 

 the carrying services, which were all sold at ^d. a load ; and it is clear 

 from the terms of the custumal that the other works were actually 

 rendered. By a lease of 1519 granted by the Hospitallers, the ' firma- 

 rius ' was bound to collect for the prior all ' rents, carriage-moneys, 

 work-silver and fines.' 6S 



At Barnes in 14601 services were still rendered, except for the 

 lands let on lease, but in the time of Henry VIII no works are men- 

 tioned." In 14345 at Uxbridge it was apparently left to the tenants' 

 discretion whether they rendered the boon services or paid for them at 

 the rate of $d. for one, and lod. for two bedrippes. 88 



At Kensington the services were in process of commutation during 

 the reign of Henry VI, and a valor of that reign gives the money value 

 of all the works. In 1406 the person and goods of a tenant described 

 as nativus domini de sanguine arc ordered to be seized for living out of the 

 manor without paying chevage. 68 



A large number of works appear as sold at Isleworth in 131415 

 and subsequent years, all the superintending works being regularly sold. 

 In 13612 a very large proportion of the works was sold ; some of the 

 aker- and wcrklond services and some ale- bedrippes being all that were 

 rendered, besides the harvest works and sheep-shearing. Three years 

 before, 1 45 acres were let on five-year leases in small holdings at rents of 6s. 

 and 7-r. per acre. Much the same proportion of works was sold in 1383-4, 

 all the werk- and akerlond services being sold this year. Six tenants 

 were presented for withholding works during the reign of Henry VI, and 

 a compotus of 14623 shows the same proportion of works sold and ren- 

 dered as in 1383-4. The demesne was let on lease, the house being reserved 

 for the abbess of Syon. Indeed, to judge by the sum entered for opera 

 uendita in a collector's account of 14846 the process of commuta- 

 tion does not seem to have made much progress. 67 In the inquiry already 

 mentioned into the status of Nicholas Est,' 8 he asserted that it was the 

 custom of the manor for free tenants who, like himself, held bondage 



" P.R.O. Mins. Accts. Hen. Ill and Edw. I, bdle. 915, Nos. z, 3, 4, 12 ; Rentals and Surv. 

 5 Edw. I, rot. 439. 



61 St. Paul's Library, Custumal 22 Hen. VII. 



63 B.M. Chartul. of the Hospitallers, Cott. MS. Claud. E. vi. 



" St. Paul's Library, Compotus Rolls, 39 Hen. VI and Hen. VIII. 



64 B.M. Rental 13 Hen. VI. Harl. Roll D 22. 



" P.R.O. Ct. R. bdle. 191, Nos. 44, 45, Hen. VI ; Rental rot. 445. 



" P.R.O. Mins. Accts. bdle. 916, Nos. n (8 Edw. II), 18 (35-6 Edw. Ill), 19 (7-8 Ric. II), 

 22 (2-3 Edw. IV), 25 (2 Ric. III-i Hen. VII). 

 M P.R.O. Inq. I Ric. II, No. 146(7. 



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