Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776Reilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
Money rents often replaced service due to a lord, such as fish
silver, malt silver, or barley silver. The lord's rights are being
limited to the rights declared on the extents [records showing service
due from each tenant] and the rolls of the manor. Sometimes land is
granted to strangers because none of the kindred of the deceased will
take it. Often a manor court limited a fee in land to certain issue
instead of being inheritable by all heirs. Surveyors' poles marked
boundaries declared by court in boundary disputes. This resulted in
survey maps showing villages and cow pastures.
The revival of trade and the appearance of a money economy was
undermining the long-established relationship between the lord of the
manor and his villeins. As a result, money payments were supplementing
or replacing payments in service and produce as in Martham, where
Thomas Knight held twelve acres in villeinage, paid 16d. for it and
14d. in special aids. "He shall do sixteen working days in August and
for every day he shall have one repast - viz. Bread and fish. He shall
hoe ten days without the lord's food - price of a day 1/2 d. He shall
cart to Norwich six cartings or shall give 9d., and he shall have for
every carting one leaf and one lagena - or gallon - of ale. Also for
ditching 1d. He shall make malt 3 1/2 seams of barley or shall give 6d.
Also he shall flail for twelve days or give 12d. He shall plough if he
has his own plough, and for every ploughing he shall have three loaves
and nine herrings ... For carting manure he shall give 2."
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