By the Rev. W. G. Clark-Maxwell, F.S.A. 343 



Notes. 



(1) These and the following names of places I have as yet not 

 been able to identify. 



( Man-corn, mixed grain, wheat and rye, or wheat and barley, 

 grown together. Man — " mang," as when sheep are mixed up, and 

 " all amang." Other forms of the word are " mang-eorn," " mong- 

 corn," "mun-corn," "monk-corn," etc. Bread made of this was 

 but little esteemed, cf. Piers Ploughman's Greed, 785 f. : — 



" Thei schulden deluen & diggen & dongen the erthe 

 & mene mong-corn bred to her mete fongen." 



(3) Pannage was a payment made for the pasturing of animals, 

 usually swine, in the woods. 



(4) Herbage was a due or payment for the right to pasture 

 cattle ; in this case it was paid by ploughing-work, called grass- 

 earth on many manors. 



(5) Ghurchshot or chirset. An ancient ecclesiastical due for the 

 maintenance of the Church. 



(6) Harvest-work The opera precaria, or boon work, required 

 in harvest. Called bedrip or " bicl-reap " on Hatherop manor. 



(7) This and the following notes are memoranda, which are not 

 now very intelligible. The " woman of Wosiesie " (which one would 

 like to make into " Woster," or " Wocesie " = Oaksey) presumably 

 holds the land for which Thomas Chanterel renders two arrows, 

 on the old roll. The two shillings paid by Andrew de Lia " pro 

 fuga " seem to indicate that he was a villein tenant belonging to 

 another manor, and to represent a composition with the lord of that 

 manor for the loss of his man's services. 



(8) This entry has been inserted in a later hand, and contains 

 the only reference to " suit of court " in the present documents. 

 The " relief " was the fine paid by the tenant on resumption of the 

 holding. 



(9) Discum plenum de blado I take to mean a dish, but it may 

 refer to the winnowing shovel. 



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