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[Footnote 10: Payment for pasturing swine.]
[Footnote 11: The lord's house.]
[Footnote 12: This clause appears only in the Latin version.]
[Footnote 13: _i.e._, Acquit his lord's inland or demesne.]
[Footnote 14: February 2.]
[Footnote 15: September 29.]
[Footnote 16: November 11.]
[Footnote 17: Pasture-land.]
[Footnote 18: _i.e._, He must plough 3 acres as his rent (gafol).]
[Footnote 19: Outfit.]
[Footnote 20: Reaping at the lord's command.]
[Footnote 21: If he have good land, good, that is, either in quality or
quantity or both.]
[Footnote 22: The lord's herd.]
[Footnote 23: An acre for ploughing.]
[Footnote 24: A sheaf from each acre in harvest.]
[Footnote 25: A free but landless retainer.]
[Footnote 26: The reeve (gerefa).]
[Footnote 27: The first milk of a milch-cow after calving.]
[Footnote 28: The residue after the last pressing of the cheese.]
2. THE FORM OF THE DOMESDAY INQUEST [_Inquisitio Eliensis, Domesday
Book, Additamenta, p. 497_], 1086.
Here below is written the inquest of the lands, in what manner the
King's barons enquire, to wit, by the oath of the sheriff of the shire,
and of all the barons and their Frenchmen and of the whole hundred, of
the priest, the reeve, six villeins of each town. Then how the manor is
named; who held it in the time of King Edward; who holds it now; how
many hides; how many ploughs on the demesne, and how many of the men;
how many villeins; how many cotters; how many serfs; how many freemen;
how many socmen; how much wood; how much meadow; how many pastures; how
many mills; how many fishponds; how much has been added or taken away;
how much it was worth altogether; and how much now; how much each
freeman or socman there had or has. All this for three periods; to wit,
in the time of King Edward; and when King William granted it; and as it
is now; and if more can be had therefrom than is had.
[Footnote 29: A feast on the completion of the hayrick.]
[Footnote 30: Probably a feast at the completion of corn-stacking.]
[Footnote 31: The best printed text is in Liebermann, _Die Gesetze der
Angelsachsen,_ I. 444.]
3. THE BOROUGH OF DOVER [_Domesday Book, I, 1_], 1086.
Dover in the time of King Edward rendered 18l., of which money King
Edward had two parts and Earl Godwin the third. On the contrary the
canons of St. Martin had another moiety.[32] The burgesses gave twenty
ships to the King once a year for fifteen days and in each ship were
twenty-one men. This they did for that he had fully granted to them sac
and soc.[33] When the King's messengers came there, they gave for the
passage of a horse 3d. in winter and 2d. in summer. The burgesses,
however, found a pilot and one other assistant, and if need were for
more, it was hired from the messenger's own money.
From the feast of St. Michael[34] to the feast of St. Andrew[35] the
King's truce (that is, peace) was in the town. If any man broke it, the
King's reeve received therefor common amends.
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