Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Also, on Holy Thursday eve we ordain the commons of the Peasfield for
horses to be broken, and no other beasts to come therein. For if there
be any man that have any horse that is feeble and may not do his work
for fault of meat, and this may reasonably be known, let him relieve of
his own, so that he save his neighbour from harm, for if any man may ...
which beasts 'lose' in corn or in grass, he shall for each beast pay a
penny to the church, and make amends to his neighbour.
Also, on Whitsun eve every man [shall] break his several pasture as he
likes, and no man tie his horse on other ... his own for to be several
till Lammas, each man to eat his own, under the pain beforesaid.
Furthermore, if any man ... plough-oxen for to be relieved on his
several grass, let him tie them in his best manner or hold them in, as
other men do their horses ... on no other man's grass going to or fro
abroad, as they will pay for each beast a penny to the church and make
[amends] ... to him that has the harm.
Also, if any man tie his horse or reach on any headlands or by brookside
into any man's corn, he shall make amends to him that has the harm, and
for each foot that is within the corn pay a penny to the church.
Also if any man shall be taken at night time destroying other corn or
grass, he shall be punished as the law will, and pay 4d. to the church.
Also, all manner of men that have any pease in the field when codding
time comes, let them cod in their own lands and in no other man's lands.
And other men or women that have no peas of their own growing, let them
gather them twice in the week on Wednesday and on Friday, reasonably
going in the land-furrows and gathering with their hands and with no
sickles, once before noon and no more, for if any man or woman other
that has any peas of his own and goes into any other, for each time [he
shall] pay a penny to the church and lose his cods, and they that have
none and go oftener than it is before said, with sickle or without,
shall lose the vessel they gather them in and the cods, and a penny to
the church.
Also, no man with common herd nor with shed herd [shall] come on the
wold after grass be mown till it be made and led away, but on his own,
and then let them go all together in God's name; and if they do, each
man pay for his quantity of his beasts a certain to the church, that is
for to say, a penny for each beast.
Also, if there be any man that throws in any sheaves on any land for to
tie on his horses, he shall make a large amends to them that have the
harm, and for each foot pay a penny to the church, but on his own.
Furthermore, if any man tie his horse in any stubble and it be mown in
reasonable time [he] shall pay the aforesaid pain.
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