182 THE DOMESDAY INQUEST 



8. MISCELLANEOUS APPURTENANCES 



Among the other appurtenances which are found recorded 

 in connection with the manors were the salinae, or salt-works, 

 which were especially found on the sea-coast, where salt-pans 

 have been used till quite recently. The Sussex salt-pans 

 were almost as valuable as the mills. The inland salt-works 

 were at Droitwich in Worcestershire, and Northwich and other 

 " wiches " in Cheshire. Certain wells in these wiches were 

 appurtenant to manors both within and without the counties 

 in which they were situate ; manors as far south as Rollright 

 and Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, and Risborough 

 in Bucks., had salt-pans or salt-workers in Droitwich ; and 

 salt-works in the same place were appurtenant to many manors 

 in the western counties. To the manor of Bromsgrove were 

 appurtenant thirteen salt-pans in Droitwich, and three salt- 

 workers rendered for those pans 300 mittas of salt, and> 

 T. R. E., they received 300 waggon-loads of wood from the 

 woodwards. 1 



The customs of the Cheshire wiches are set out at great 

 length, but are too technical for insertion in this place. 

 Roughly speaking, the toll was only nominal when a lord 

 fetched salt for his own use, but it was heavier if it was 

 removed for sale or for the use of the villans. There was 

 a special penalty if a horse was overladen so that its back 

 was broken. But it is probable that this penalty was im- 

 posed, not so much with a view of punishing cruelty to 

 animals, as to secure that no man should take away too 

 much salt as a horse-load, as the toll was twopence a load. 2 



There are frequent records of quarries, of which the most 

 valuable was that at Watone (Notts.), which produced mill- 

 stones, and was worth 3 marks of silver a year. 3 In Derby- 

 shire were " plumbaria " (lead-mines), and in Northamptonshire 



1 D. B., I. 172 a 2. * Id., I. 268 a 2. 



3 Id., I. 290 b i. 



