It was easy, too, on most monastic manors, for the native tenant or villein to obtain leave to live elsewhere on payment of a small acknowledgment, which was a privilege very rarely granted by a secular lord. Thus, on the manor of Inkpen, Berkshire, in the time of Richard I., the Abbot of Titchfield, as lord, licensed three of his native tenants to dwell outside the manor in return for 6_d._ a year apiece at Michaelmas; in another case the annual acknowledgment for a like permission took the shape of a ploughshoe (or iron tip for a wooden share), then worth about 2_d._; and in a third case, the more costly service of a pair of cart-wheels, probably worth about 1_s._ The same abbot, according to the customary of the Hampshire manor where the abbey stood, had an extraordinarily generous scale of dietary for those tenants who worked at the lord’s autumn harvesting. Those who worked one day a week for the whole day received at three o’clock a supply of food (_unum pastum_) consisting of bread, with beer or cider, broth (_potagium_), and two sorts of flesh or fish, as well as drink once after dinner. For supper the fortunate labourer also received a wheat loaf weighing forty ounces, and two herrings, or four pilchards, or one mackerel. As such a _pastum_ by itself seems to have been considered as worth 4_d._, this food allowance was certainly remarkably generous. If three days’ labour was the service to be rendered, the last of the three was recompensed in a like generous fashion, whilst on the two first days the _pastum_ was a loaf of barley bread, water to drink, and two kinds of fish, whilst the change in the supper consisted merely of the substitution of a forty-ounce barley loaf for one of wheat. When the customary tenants had to wash sheep or do a day’s work on the meadows at the lord’s will, they received nothing, save that they had wheat bread and beer when they had finished; but the shearers of sheep had cheese in addition to the bread and beer. Those who dressed the meadows had no food allowance, but when haymaking they received bread and beer, with flesh or fish. In short, it is admitted that on several monastic estates the harvest payment in food for villein labour cost more than the labour was worth. We have looked in vain through many a customary of secular manors to find a parallel to this; the only approach to it is in other manors in monastic hands. As a broad rule there was no food or drink given to the secular lord’s villeins for labour on the demesne, save at corn harvest, and then only on a somewhat meagre scale.