300 An English Manor in the tiine of Elizabeth. 



Middleheld, eleven acres ; in Westtield, thirteen acres one rod ; with 

 pasture for sixty-five two-tooth sheep, three heasts, and three horses 

 with the tenant of Stoford; and In 1 holds for military service and 

 suit to the court, and the lord has ward, marriage, ami relief. He 

 pays per annum in money 9s. Sd. But sonic of those tenants for 

 military service compounded by a money payment for all services, 

 thus Hugo Keete, at Bullbridge had a close in South Ugford near 

 the Vennel, where formerly was a cross, and opposite to which the 

 Chapel of St. James stood; with pasture for two heasts in the 

 common pastures, and he paid for all services, exactions, and de- 

 mands 10s., according to a charter of Matilda, the Abbess of 

 Wilton. 



The Vennel was Burcombe Lane, the continuation of the Nether- 

 hampton Road through Washerne. The Chapel stood in Earthpit 

 Field, on the left-hand side hefore coming to the present dairy. 

 The cross stood on the right-hand side. 



But further, this entry says "The lord has ward, marriage, and 

 relief," and these three feudal incidents of tenure deserve a word 

 of explanation. Of wardship we had an instance in the early life 

 of the first Earl of Pembroke. Charles Somerset had the wardship 

 of William Herbert; he had the care of his person and received 

 the profits of his estate. It was this right to the guardianship of 

 his vassals' heirs that belonged to the lord of the manor, and lie 

 always made all he could out of their estates while they were 



minors. In this survey William CJnyon of Staunton is " now in 

 wardship of the lord." 



The next feudal incident the lord had was " marriage." He was 

 not above bargaining with likely suitors for the hand of his female 

 want, and she could not refuse any gentleman of her own rank 

 whom her guardian selected merely hecause she did not like him. 

 If she did she forfeited to her lord a sum equal to what he might 



have received from the proposed husband for his consent to the 



alliance. This wafl really a vestigQ of the old hride-priee. 



The third feudal incident, "relief," was a tine paid hy the heir 



to the lord when he to..k up his feof ; from relevare, to take up 

 again, There were other things to which a lord was entitled, such 



