[151] See _Domesday of S. Paul_, Introduction. [152] Thorold Rogers, _History of Agriculture and Prices_, i. 25. [153] Cullum, _Hawsted_, p. 195. [154] Cunningham, _Industry and Commerce_, i. 586. [155] Banyd, afflicted with sheep rot. [156] Eden, _State of the Poor_, i. 55. [157] Cullum, _Hawsted_, p. 182. Another instance of the difference in value between arable and tillage. At the inquisition of the Manor of Great Tey in Essex, 1326, the jury found that 500 acres of arable land was worth 6d. an acre rent, 20 acres of meadow 3s. an acre, and 10 acres of pasture 1s. an acre. _Archaeologia_, xii. 30. [158] Medley, _Constitutional History_, p. 52. [159] Cunningham, _op. cit._ i. 328, and 335-6. [160] _Domesday of S. Paul_, p. lvii. [161] _Hist. Angl._, Rolls Series, i. 455. The other political and social causes of the revolt do not concern us here. The attempt to minimize its agrarian importance is strange in the light of the words and acts above mentioned. [162] Page, _op. cit._ p. 77. [163] Cunningham, _Industry and Commerce_, i. 402, 534; _Transactions of the Royal Historical Society_, New Series, xvii. 235. Fitzherbert probably referred more to villein status, which continued longer than villein tenure. [164] Thorold Rogers, _History of Agriculture and Prices_, i. 278, 288. [165] Harrison, _Description of Britain_, p. 233, says the produce of an acre of saffron was usually worth L20. [166] Exportation of corn is mentioned in 1181, when a fine was paid to the king for licence to ship corn from Norfolk and Suffolk to Norway.--McPherson, _Annals of Commerce_, i. 345. As early as the reign of Henry II, Henry of Huntingdon says, German silver came to buy our most precious wool, our milk (no doubt converted into butter and cheese), and our innumerable cattle.--Rolls Series, p. 5. In 1400, the _Chronicle of London_ says the country was saved from dearth by the importation of rye from Prussia. [167] Hasbach, _op. cit._. p. 32. [168] Lord Berkeley, about 1360, had a ship of his own for exporting wool and corn and bringing back foreign wine and wares.--Smyth, _Lives of the Berkeleys_, i. 365. [169] Nasse, _Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages_, p. 66. [170] Customs in some Surrey manors in the time of Richard II, _Archaeologia_, xviii. 281. CHAPTER VI 1400-1540 THE SO-CALLED 'GOLDEN AGE OF THE LABOURER' IN A PERIOD OF GENERAL DISTRESS