334 The Customs of Four Manors of the Abbey of Lacock. 



wheat ; and each must work each day except Saturday from the Nativity of 

 St. John to Michaelmas, and if they work throughout the year, then they 

 must work every second day from Michaelmas to the Nativity of St. John 

 and if there shall be two feast days in the week, the lady shall have one 

 feast-day, and the villans the other, and afterwards they must work from the 

 Nativity of St. John to Michaelmas, as is aforesaid ; and if they work 

 throughout the year they shall give at Michaelmas 16</. And be it known 

 that they shall have for their meadow-mowing one cheese and one sheep : 

 and each shall have one loaf ; and all who wash and shear the sheep shall 

 have one cheese in common. And each one shall have for his carrying of 

 corn, each day one sheaf; and if they carry corn from Cinuba, (/i on the 

 north side of Hartbury, then they must come five times in the day to the 

 grange, and if they carry corn from Midles, then they must come seven times 

 in the day to the grange. And be it known that Tunmede must be mown 

 in two days and Benemede in two days and six acres of meadow in a day. 

 And if they carry at Lacock from Martinmas to the Hockeday, it shall count 

 to them for two days' work, and from the Hockeday to Martinmas for one 

 day's work. And if they are to thresh: if they are threshing wheat, they 

 must thresh two bushels in the day, and if they thresh man-corn (2) two 

 bushels; and if they thresh barley, three bushels; and if oats, they must 

 thresh one quarter. And if the3' do carrying at Caneford, it shall stand for 

 three days' work, and at Hampton the same, and the same at Bristol. 



Amount 5/. 9.v. »'>./. 



Total amount of rent 9/. 9.v. 9</. 

 Hodierna the widow, William the shepherd, Henry the shepherd. Richard 

 the ploughman, Stephen the ploughman. William Knap: each holds four 

 acres, at a yearly rent of 2s. 6<Z. at the four terms, at each term 7^<<., and 

 they must work every day from the Nativity of St. John to Michaelmas : and 

 if they are to work throughout the year, then they must work every second 

 day from Michaelmas to the Nativity of St. John, and if there shall bo two 

 feast-days in the week the lady shall have one, and the men the other : and 

 they shall work from St. John's Day to Michaelmas as is aforesaid ; and if 

 they work throughout the year they shall give at Michaelmas Ihi. And if 

 any [of them] shall bo ploughman he shall be rent-free and shall plough . . . 

 eight acres each year with the lady's plough, and he shall have one penny to 

 find timber for the plough. And they all shall have one lleece in common, 

 each shall have one loaf for the meadow-work as do the virgaters, and each 

 [shall give] three hens and a cock for chirset. 



Amount 17.v. l\d. 



Osbort the smith holds four aoros of land and therefore must make ready 

 the irons for throe ploughs of the lady of the lady's iron, and shoo one 

 horse of the lady at his own cost, and lie shall mow with the others, and have 

 tho customs therewith, as do the other mowers, and he shall give twelve 

 penco yearly for the pannage (•'>') of his beasts, and shall have yearly four 

 pence to mend his bellows, and at his death lie shall leave two tongs and 

 two bellows and two great hammers, and one lesser, and he shall have his 

 customs as do tho mowers. 



[Four cottagers— Hugo the shepherd. Thomas Lupilun, Roger Shepherd, 



