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Gloucestershire
Services of a Virgate. 64
A. B. holds 1 virgate of 48 acres (in the manor of Hartpury), with messuage, and 6 acres of meadow land. s. d.
From Michaelmas till August 1 he has to plough one day a week, each day's work being valued at 312
And to do manual labour 3 days a week, each day's work being valued at 12
On the 4th day to carry horse-loads (summagiare), if necessary, to Preston and other manors, and Gloucester, each day's work being valued at 1
Once a year to carry to Wick, valued at 3
To plough one acre called 'Eadacre,' 65 and to thresh the seed for the said acre, the ploughing and threshing being valued at 4
To do the ploughing called 'beneherthe' with one meal from the lord, valued ultra cibum at 1
To mow the lord's meadow for 5 days, and more if necessary, each day's work being valued ultra opus manuale at 1
To lift the lord's hay for 5 days 212
To hoe the lord's corn for one day (besides the customary labour), with one man, valued at 12
To do 1 'bederipa' before autumn with 1 man, valued at 112
To work in the lord's harvest 5 days a week with 2 men, from August 1 to Michaelmas, valued per week at 1 3
To do 1 'bederipa,' called 'bondenebedripa,' with 4 men, valued at 6
To do 1 harrowing a year, called 'londegginge,' valued at 1
To give at Michaelmas an aid of 3 3
To [pay] 'pannage,' viz. for a pig of a year old 1
For a younger pig that can be separated 12
If he brew for sale, to give 14 gallons of ale as toll.
To sell neither horse nor ox without licence.
Seller and buyer to give 4d. as toll for a horse sold within the manor.
To redeem son and daughter at the will of the lord.
If he die, the lord to have his best beast of burden as heriot, and of his widow likewise, if she outlive her husband.
Services of a Lundinarius. 66
A. B. holds one 'lundinarium' (in the manor of Highnam), to wit, a messuage with curtilage, 4 acres of land, and a half-acre of meadow, and has to work one day a week (probably Monday, Lunæ-dies, Lundi, whence the title of the holding), from Michaelmas to August 1, and each day's work is valued at. … s. d.
To mow the lord's meadow for 4 days if necessary, and a day's mowing is valued at 2
To aid in cocking and lifting the hay for 6 days at least, and the day's work is valued at 12
To hoe the lord's corn for 1 day, valued at 12
To do 2 'bederipæ' before August 1, valued at 2
From August 1 to Michaelmas to do manual labour 2 days a week, and each day's work is valued at 112
To gather rushes on August 1, valued at 12
And in all other 'conditions' he shall do as the customers.
The total value of the service of a 'lundinarius' is 6 8
To give 4d. as aid at Michaelmas.
(15 other 'lundinarii' hold on a like tenure.)
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