The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)Seebohm, Frederic
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The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)
Seebohm, Frederic
Village communities -- Great Britain
19 days' work [2½ days a week] between August 1 and
Michaelmas, valued at 1½d. = 2 4½
6 precariæ, with one man, valued at 12
1 precaria, with 2 men, for reaping, with food from the
lord, valued at 2
Half a carriage for carrying the wheat 1
Half a carriage for the hay 1
The ploughing and harrowing of an acre 6
1 ploughing called '_graserthe_' 1½
1 day's harrowing of oat[land] 1
1 horse [load] of wood ½
Making 1 quarter of malt, and drying it 1
1 day's work at washing and shearing sheep, valued at ½
1 day's hoeing ½
3 days' mowing 6
1 day's nutting ½
1 day's work in carrying to the stack ½
Tallage once a year at the lord's will.
_Of a Cotarius._[36]
A. B. holds one croft, and owes from Michaelmas to August
1, each workable week, one day's work of whatever kind the
lord requires.
At Martinmas gives 1 cock and 3 hens for churchshot, and
ought to drive to certain places, and to carry writs,[37]
his food being found by the lord; also to wash and shear
sheep, receiving a loaf and a half, and being partaker of
the cheese with the _servi_; and to hoe. In the autumn, to
work and receive like as each _servus_ works and receives
for the whole week.[38]
(10 cottiers do like services).
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HUNTINGDONSHIRE
_Of a Villanus holding a Virgate._[39]
A. B. holds 1 virgate in villenage--
By paying 12d. at Michaelmas.
By doing works from Michaelmas to Easter, with the
exception of the fortnight after Christmas, viz. 2 days
each week, with one man each day.
Item, he shall plough with his own plough one selion and a
half on every Friday in the aforesaid time.
Item, he shall harrow the same day as much as he has
ploughed.
He shall do works from Easter to Pentecost, 2 days each
week, with one man each day.
And he shall plough one selion each Friday in the same
time.
He shall do works from Pentecost till August 1, for 3 days
each week, with one man each day, either hoeing the corn,
or mowing and lifting (_levand_).
He shall do works from August 1 till September 8, for 3
days each week, with two men each day.
He shall make 1 '_love-bonum_' with all his family except
his wife, finding his own food. And from September 8 to
Michaelmas he works 3 days each week, with one man each
day. He shall carry [with a horse or horses] as far as
Bolnhurst, and from Bolnhurst to Torneye.
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