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



each day of the week except Saturday, and shall do carriage throughout the 

 county at their own cost, and if without the county at the cost of the lady, 

 and each shall give at Martinmas seven pence half-penny for chirset. and 

 each must plough for fallow three perches of ground on the eve of St. John 

 Baptist ; and on the eve of Martinmas they must plough and sow with their 

 own corn one half-acre, and after St. John Baptist's Day till Michaelmas 

 they must work at the will of the bailiff", each day except Saturday at the 

 hay and the corn together: and when they carry corn each of them shall 

 have two sheaves ; and they shall give pannage for their swine, and shall 

 make malt, and shall wash and shear the sheep, as do the rest. 



Amount : 21*. lid. 

 Adam Puke, Walter Godwyne, Warin, William Wlwy, Walter de la crOst, 

 William de la lane, Robert de Wytehiete, Ralph the Carpenter, Agnes the 

 widow, Thomas the ploughman, Nicholas the reeve. Each of these holds a 

 half-virgate of land for lour shillings a year, if they work not; and each of 

 them must mow one day before dinner and after dinner, and harrow one day 

 before dinner. And they shall make a rick or ricks of hay, and carry hay if 

 they have horses, and if they carry corn for one day in autumn, if they have 

 horses, they shall have the sheaves, that is to say each of them shall have 

 four, and each of them must wash and shear the sheep of the lady, and they 

 shall make the malt of the lady against Christmas and against Easter, and 

 they shall have straw for the drying of it, and one cheese whi n they shear 

 the sheep, and they shall have one dish (9) full of corn when they receive the 

 malt, and they shall give three hens and a cock for chirset. And all the men 

 who help to get the hay together, as virgaters, shall have once and at once 

 half-a-bushel of wheat, and one sheep, and one cheese, for " med-mete." {10) 

 And if these work they must work on every other day of the week from 

 Michaelmas to St. John Baptist's Day, except on Saturday, and after the 

 feast of St. John Baptist until Michaelmas every day except Saturday, and 

 when they cut the corn they shall have as strangers ought to have. 

 Amount 44*. 



GeolTry Pooelin capit' holds in the demesne (11) one virgate of land for H*. 

 a year, and shall do the customs and services w hich Adam Puke and Godwin 

 do, when they work not, except chirset, 



Hoger New holds half-a-virgate for rive shillings, and shall do as GeolTry. 



Hugh Puke holds half-a-virgate for live shillings and shall do as GeolTry. 

 and shall give chirset. 



Roger Purlomb and Richard King hold half-a-virgate for Is., and shall do 

 tho customs and services which Adam Puke and Walter Puke Godwyne do. 

 and Uicard [owes as ?] a gift one ploughshare at Michaelmas. 

 Amount '22*. 



Hoger the smith holds the fourth part of a virgate for two shillings a year, 

 and shall do as Koger Purlomb, if lie make not the irons of the ploughs, and 

 if he makes them he must shoe one horse w ith his own iron and the ironwork 

 of two ploughs with the lady's iron, and he shall have one horse in the lady's 

 pasture. 



Alice the widow hold-, the fourth part of ;i virgate for two shillings and 

 shall do as Kogei Purlomb. 



