Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Simon Pecoc holds a third part of a fourth part of a virgate and renders
2s. 6d. a year at the two terms.
Isabel Pecoc holds a third part of a fourth part of a virgate and
renders 2s. 6d. a year at the two terms.
Richard the Fuller holds a third part of a fourth part of a virgate and
renders 2s. 6d. a year at the two terms. Sum, 27s. 6d.
[Sidenote: Half a Virgate.]
Henry de la Bruer holds a fourth part of a virgate and renders 7s. 6d. a
year at the two terms.
Simon Pecoc holds an eighth part of a virgate and renders 3s. 9d. at the
two terms.
Isabel Pecoc holds an eighth part of a virgate and renders 3s. 9d. a
year at the two terms. Sum, 15s.
Sum total of rent of 39 virgates a year: 46l. 9s. 5-1/2d.
[Sidenote: Virgate.]
Further, John de Walda holds a virgate of land which was arrented first
to the use of the King in the presence of William Brito and his fellows,
approvers, and renders therefor 30s. a year of rent of assize.
And thus there are in all in the aforesaid manor 40 virgates of land
which render yearly in rent of assize:
Sum, 47l. 19s. 5-1/2d.
Further, from works of the aforesaid 40 virgates 14l. yearly.
And be it known that each virgate ought to do all the works
underwritten, and the works of each virgate are worth by themselves 7s.
a year.
Virgate works.--Further, it is acknowledged by the aforesaid jurors that
each virgate in the aforesaid manor owes all the customs underwritten,
and so in proportion half a virgate and other parts according to the
portion and quantity of land, as the virgate is divided, to wit, to
plough 4 acres a year in the winter season, and the ploughing of each
acre is worth 4d. Further, it ought to harrow those 4 acres, and the
harrowing of each acre is worth 1/2d. Further it ought to thresh and
winnow 1 quarter of rye for seed, and that threshing and winnowing is
worth 2d. Further it ought to reap, bind and cock 4 acres, and this
custom is worth 3d. for each acre, to wit, of rye. Further it ought to
plough 4 acres in the summer season, and the ploughing of each acre is
worth 3d. Further it ought to harrow those 4 acres, and the harrowing of
each acre is worth 1/2d. Further it ought to thresh and winnow 1-1/2
quarters of oats, and the threshing and winnowing is worth 1-1/2d.
Further it ought to reap, bind and cock 4 acres of oats, and that custom
is worth 2-1/2d. for each acre. Further it ought to find two men for one
day to hoe until noon, and that custom is worth 2d. Further it ought to
find two men for one day to hoe in the summer season until noon, and
that custom is worth 2d. Further it ought to carry the corn from the
field of the lord the King to the grange with one waggon for one day
until noon, and that carrying is worth 3-1/2d. Further it ought to find
four men to lift the hay in the meadow of the lord the King for one day,
and that custom is worth 2d. Further it ought to carry a waggonload of
hay, and each carrying is worth 3d. Further it ought to manure with
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