And order is made to take all the other bondmen named above, because they come not, and to bring them back hither to their nests until, etc.[118] * * * * * Sum of this Court:--51s. 9d., the whole perquisite. Further from chevage as above:--3s. a year to be paid at the terms as above. [Footnote 106: December 12, 1349, the year of the Black Death. The monotonous death roll is noteworthy.] [Footnote 107: _Sc._ the inheritance cannot descend.] [Footnote 108: Monday before May 1, 1354.] [Footnote 109: Fine on giving birth to an illegitimate child.] [Footnote 110: Friday before June 24, 1354.] [Footnote 111: _i.e._ Became sureties.] [Footnote 112: _i.e._ Sureties.] [Footnote 113: _i.e._ Fine upon marriage.] [Footnote 114: _i.e._, head-money, a fine paid yearly by bond-tenants dwelling away from the manor.] [Footnote 115: _Interlined above_ Cecily _is_ Roger Judson.] [Footnote 116: Anabel has persistently refused to rebuild the house during the last six years; she discharges her obligation two years later [m.50].] [Footnote 117: _i.e._ In order to retain his own possessions during the steward's good pleasure. In law a bondman's goods belong to his lord.] [Footnote 118: _cf._ Bracton, _De Legibus Anglie, ff. 6 b. and 7._ "Serfs are under the power of their lords, nor is the lord's power loosed so long as they abide in villeinage, waking and sleeping, whether they hold land or not. Moreover, if they are not abiding in villeinage, but wandering abroad through the country, going and returning, they are always under the power of the lords, so long as they return; and when they have lost the habit of returning, they begin to be runaways, after the likeness of tame stags. Moreover, if when they are abroad as merchants or wage-earners they pay chevage at fixed times ... and so long as they pay chevage, they are said to be under the power of the lords, and the lord's power is not loosed. And when they cease to pay they begin to be fugitives ... and ought to be pursued forthwith." And _ibid. f._ 26. "It was said in the King's court before the justices of the Bench at Westminster by John de Metingham and his fellows, justices there, that if a bondman born and bred shall be a runaway ... and shall have returned and be found on the bond estate where he was born, and be taken there by his true lord or his ministers as a bird in its nest, and this be proved, if such a man venture to deny it in the King's court, he shall be a serf for ever."] 3. DEED ILLUSTRATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF STRIPS [_Ancient Deeds_, B 4397], 1397.