THE MEADOWS AND PASTURES 171 



In Middlesex the usual formula to denote the extent of 

 the wood was, " nemus ad sepes ; " similarly the usual formula 

 in that county to express the area of the meadow was, 

 " pastura ad pecuniam " (sufficient pasture for the cattle). 

 Sometimes the area of the meadow is signified in the same 

 way. At Aylesbury there was meadow for eight teams, and 

 from the remainder arose rents amounting to 2os. ; l and at 

 Wycombe there was meadow for three teams and for the 

 horses of the manor-house, and for the teams of the villans. 2 

 A comparison of entries in the Cambridgeshire Inquest with 

 the parallel passages in the Exchequer Domesday shows 

 that in parts of Cambridgeshire no more hay was gathered 

 from i acre of meadow than was sufficient to keep one ox 

 during the winter. For instance, at Westley the Cambridge- 

 shire Inquest states, " There is meadow for two oxen ; " but 

 the parallel passage in the Exchequer Domesday states, 

 " There are 2 acres of meadow." 



Occasionally we are told the profit the lord derived from 

 the pasture. At Hadfield Broad Oak (Essex) there was a 

 meadow which rendered nine fat sheep (" multones ") into 

 the manor ; and for other part of the same pasture the fifty- 

 eight villans did 41 acres of ploughing on the demesne 

 farm. 3 The Rectitudines Singularum Personarum tells us of 

 the " gras-erth," or ploughing service, which the gebur was 

 obliged to give if he wanted extra pasture. In Sussex, where 

 large numbers of swine were turned out on the rough pasture, 

 the usual payment to the lord was one pig in seven "de 

 herbagio." 4 



Once, at least, a tract of pasture is recorded as being 

 common to a number of vills. " In the hundred of Colness 

 there is a certain pasture common to all the men of 

 the hundred." 5 And mention appears to be made of a 

 pasture which was common to all the tenants of a manor 



1 D. B., I. 143 a 2. " Id., I. 149 a 2. 



3 Id., II. 2 b. 4 Id., I. 16 b I. 5 Id., II. 339 b. 



