Here we have clearly, as in the '_Rectitudines_,' the _gafol_, including the three acres of _gafol-yrth_ or ploughing, as well as other gafol-work and payments in [p163] kind. And if the services had stopped here, we might have concluded that the 'ceorls' of Hysseburne were gafolgelders, and not serfs. But there is another clause which forbids such a conclusion--which shows that, in the words of the laws of King Ine, they were 'set to _work_ as well as to _gafol_.' It is this:-- «Week-work.» And ǽlce wucan wircen ðæt hí man háte bútan þrim, án tó middan-wintra, oðeru tó Eástran, þridde to Gangdagan. And every week do what work they are bid, except three weeks--one at midwinter, the second at Easter, and the third at 'Gang days.' «Unlimited.» Comparing these services with the other examples, they do not seem to be any more the services of freemen, or any less those of serfs. They seem to plainly bear the ordinary characteristics of what is meant by serfdom wherever it is found. There is the _gafol_ and there is the _week-work_; and the latter is not limited to certain days each week, as in the '_Rectitudines_,' but '_each week, except three in the year, they are_ TO WORK AS THEY ARE BID.' And these are the services--this is the serfdom--on a manor which was part of the royal domain of King Alfred, which for three successive reigns at least, and probably for generations earlier, had been royal domain, and now by the last royal holder is handed over, with the men that were upon it, to the perpetual, never-dying lordship of a monastery, as an eternal inheritance. «The chain of evidence complete.»