In the Hundred Rolls for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire the services of the villein tenants [p041] are almost always commuted into money payments. From each virgate a payment of from 16s. to 20s. is described as due, or services to that value (_vel opera ad valorem_), showing that the actual services have become the exception, and the money payments the rule. But in many cases distinguishing marks of serfdom still remained in the fine upon the marriage of a daughter, the heriot on the death of the holder, and the restraint on the sale of animals.[34] In Huntingdonshire and Oxfordshire, on the other hand, the services, whilst often having their money value assigned, are mostly given in great detail, as though still frequently enforced. «Of three kinds.» Speaking generally, the chief services, notwithstanding variations in detail, may be classed under three different heads. «Week work.» (1) There is the _weekly work_ at ploughing, reaping, carrying, usually for two or three days a week, and most at harvest-time. In other cases there are so many days' work required between certain dates. «Precariæ.» (2) There are _precariæ_, or 'boon-days,' sometimes called _bene works_--special or extra services which the lord has a right to require, sometimes the lord providing food for the day, and sometimes the tenant providing for himself. «Fixed dues in money or in kind.» (3) There are _payments in kind or in money_ at specified times, such as Christmas, Easter, Martinmas, and Michaelmas dues; _churchshot_, an ancient ecclesiastical [p042] due; besides contributions towards the lord's taxes in the shape of _tallage_ or _scutage_. Sometimes the services are to be performed with one or two labourers, showing that the cottier tenants were labourers under the holders of virgates, or indicating possibly in some cases the remains of a slave class. The chief weekly services were those of ploughing, the tenants sometimes supplying oxen to the lord's plough team, sometimes using their own ploughs, two or more joining their oxen for the purpose. This co-operation is a marked feature of the services, and is found also in connexion with reaping and carrying. The cottier tenants in respect of their smaller holdings often worked for their lord one day a week, and having no plough, or oxen, their services did not include ploughing. Annexed are typical instances of the services of both classes of tenants. They are taken from three counties, and placed side by side for comparison. EXAMPLES OF VILLEIN SERVICES. OXFORDSHIRE _Of a Villanus holding a Virgate._[35] A. B. holds a virgate, and owes-- 82 days' work [about 2 days a week] between Michaelmas and s. d. June 24, valued at ½d. = 3 5 11½ days' work [rather more than 2 days a week] between June 24 and s. d. August 1, valued at 1d. = 11½