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.) |