_Of the Barn-keeper._--To the barn-keeper belong the corn-droppings in harvest at the barn-door, if his ealdorman give it him and he faithfully earn it. _Of the Beadle._--It belongs to the beadle that for his office he be freeer from work than another man, for that he must be oft ready; also to him belongs a strip of land for his toil. _Of the Woodward._--To the woodward belongs every windfall-tree. _Of the Hayward._--To the hayward it belongs that his toil be rewarded with land at the ends of the fields that lie by the pasture meadow; for he may expect that if he first neglects this, to his charge will be laid damage to the crops; and if a strip of land be allowed to him, this shall be by folk-right next the pasture meadow, for that if out of sloth he neglect his lord, his own land shall not be well defended, if it be found so; but if he defend well all that he shall hold, then shall he be right worthy of a good reward. Land-laws are diverse, as I said before, nor do we fix for all places these customs that we have before spoken of, but we shew forth what is accustomed there where it is known to us; if we learn aught better, that will we gladly cherish and keep, according to the customs of the place where we shall then dwell; for gladly should he learn the law among the people, who wishes not himself to lose honour in the country. Folk-customs are many; in some places there belong to the people winter-feast, Easter-feast, boon-feast for harvest, a drinking feast for ploughing, rick-meat,[29] mowing reward, a wainstick at wood-loading, a stack-cup[30] at corn-loading, and many things that I cannot number. But this is a reminder for men, yea, all that I have set forth above.[31] [Footnote 2: _See_ Cunningham, _Growth of English Industry and Commerce_, i., 570-576.] [Footnote 3: _cf._ _Dialogus de Scaccario_: "Finally, that nothing might be thought lacking, he brought the whole of his far-seeing measures to completion by despatching from his side his wisest men in circuit throughout the realm. The latter made a careful survey of the whole land, in woods and pastures and meadows and arable lands also, which was reduced to a common phraseology and compiled into a book, that every man might be content with his own right and not encroach with impunity on that of another."] [Footnote 4: The right conferred by his book or charter.] [Footnote 5: Military service.] [Footnote 6: Repair of the king's castles or boroughs.] [Footnote 7: Reading with Leo _fyrdscipe_ for _frithscipe_. For the difficult word "_scorp_" cf. Pat. 9 John m. 3. _Rex omnibus scurmannis et marinellis et mercatoribus Anglie per mare itinerantibus. Sciatis nos misisse Alanum ... et alios fideles nostros scurimannos ... ad omnes naves quas invenerint per mare arrestandas._] [Footnote 8: Guard of the king's person.] [Footnote 9: Rent or tribute. Gafol is sometimes a tax payable to the king, and sometimes a rent or dues payable to the lord.]