Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) EditionReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) Edition
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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