308 An English Manor in the timt of Elizabeth. 



he had received it, and the lord " set and let " the holding to a new 

 tenant. This was why Juliana Walsh had to leave for the use of 

 the next tenant straw and thatch for one complete bower 2ls. uV., 

 and for a three-quarter bower 16s. Id., seed corn for the summer 

 sowing of the bower land, and seven quarters of barley, and straw 

 for feeding one beast in the winter. It was for these lands that 

 certain grain was paid into the granary at AVilton "according to 

 bower custom"; hut the tenants of Bower Chalke had already 

 commuted this "bower corn" for an annual payment of 26a 2d. at 

 the time this survey was made. 



To show the average size of the holdings I will tabulate the 

 particulars of one or two of the manors, and as an example of a 

 manor in which all services had been commuted for a money 

 payment I will take the manor of Washern, a village that stood 

 within Wilton Park but has now disappeared. 



Washern e. 



Acres Commonage 



Free Tenants. Arable. Meadow. Cattle. Sheep. Heriot. Kent. 



Wm.Webb 26 4 10 51 1 5*. 



Hugo Keete 3f 2 10s. 



Giles Poole, now surrendered 1 5s. 



Customary Acres in Fields Commonage. 

 Tenants. Fine. East. Middle. West. Meadow. Close. Cattle. Sheep. Kent. 

 Each holding 

 one virgate. 



Beckett, Kobt. £12 6£ 6£ 8.^ 0 4 (> 37 30*. 1 hen 



Stevens, Margt. £10 7 6| 7~ 0 3 6 37 20.*. 1 hen 



Hubert, Richd. £2 6£ 6£ 7 4 O 6 37 „ „ 



Bacon, Edmund £5 6| 6| 7 U 0 6 37 „ 



Rendell, John £1 6* 6* 6j 4 0 6 87 „ 



Pynnell, Alice 7} 8 6 M 0 6 87 „ 



Baker, Joanna £18 7 7 7 4£ 0 6 37 



during widowhood 



l,ight,Thomas£18/6'8 7 7 CA I 0 8 37 „ 



RandoU, John 7 7 7 4\ 0 8 37 „ „ 

 Each were liable to a heriot of one best beast 



Ajb an example of a manor in which week work was Mill done 

 fur the manor farm I will give in like manner the particulars of 

 the holdings in the manor of Burcombe. 



HUKCO.MHK. 

 Wood Hast WYst 



Frbk Tbhawts. field, field, field. Mead. dose. Cattle. Sheep. Kent. 

 Willoughby, Chris. '2.1 S H '2A 2$ O 0 Ibt.id. 



