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for the wheat, malt, honey, and other minute customs, 1 so that 

 the farm in Cambridgeshire was commutable for something 

 under 4. los. ; and there are some half a dozen records 

 of a similar nature. Possibly the half of the day's farm 

 rendered by each of the royal manors of Leighton Buzzard, 

 Luton, and Houghton Regis was similar to the Cambridge- 

 shire farm. 2 Turning to Suffolk, we find mention of another 

 farm. Diss provided half a day's farm of honey with its 

 customs, and Blythborough provided one day's farm of honey 

 with the whole custom ; 3 but of their value we have no indica- 

 tion. However, enough has been said to show that there was 

 a material difference between the value of the night's farm in 

 the west and its value in the east of England. 



Sometimes the rent consisted partly of money and partly 

 of provisions. In 1066 the royal manors of Barton and 

 Cheltenham each rendered fy $s. in cash and 3000 loaves 

 for the hounds ; in 1086 each rendered 20 in cash and 

 twenty cows, twenty pigs, and i6s. for bread. In 1066 

 Cirencester rendered 3j modii of wheat, 3^ modii of barley, 

 and 6 sextars of honey, in addition to g $s. and 3000 

 loaves as were provided by Barton and Cheltenham ; but 

 in 1086 its render was the same as that of the two latter 



manors. 4 



All our examples have hitherto been taken from the 

 royal manors ; but the monks also received food rents from 

 their lands. Archdeacon Hale, in his edition of the Domesday 

 of St. Paul's, shows that in the twelfth century the Canons of 

 St. Paul's Cathedral were accustomed to receive wheat, barley, 

 and oats from the manors that they let on lease ; and the 

 monks of Abingdon, Peterborough, and Malmesbury also 

 received much of their rents in wheat and malt. There are 

 more than traces of a similar custom in Domesday Book. 

 Speaking of three estates in Worcestershire, the record says, 



1 D. B., I. 189 a 2. 2 /</., I. 209 a 2. 



3 /</., II. 282. 4 fd., I. 162 b 2. 



