«Survey of a manor.» (1) Of castles and buildings in the demesne (_intrinsecis_) within and without the moat, with gardens, curtilages, dovecotes, fishponds, &c. (2) What fields (_campi_) and _culturæ_ there are in demesne, and how many acres of arable in each _cultura_ of meadow and of pasture. (3) What common pasture there is outside the demesne (_forinseca_), and what beasts the lord can place thereon [he, like his tenants, being as to this limited in his rights by custom]. (4) Of parks and demesne woods, which the lord at his will can cultivate and reclaim (_assartare_). (5) Of woods outside the demesne (_forinsecis_), in which others have common rights, how much the lord may approve. (6) Of pannage, herbage, and honey, and all other issues of the forests, woods, moors, heaths, and wastes. (7) Of mills [belonging to the lord, and having a monopoly of grinding for the tenants at fixed charges], fishponds, rivers (_ripariis_), and fisheries several and common. (8) Of pleas and perquisites belonging to the county, manor, and forest courts. (9) Of churches belonging to the lord's advowson. (10) Of heriots, fairs, markets, tolls, day-works (_operationes_), services, foreign (_forinseci_) customs, and gifts (_exhenniis_). (11) Of warrens, liberties, parks, coneyburrows, wardships, reliefs, and yearly fees. Then regarding the tenants,-- «Free tenants.» (1) _De libere tenentibus_, or free tenants, how many are _intrinseci_ and how many _forinseci_; what lands they hold of the lord, and [p047] what of others, and by what service; whether by _socage_, or by _military_ service, or by fee farm, or 'in eleemosynam'; who hold by charter, and who not; what rents they pay; which of them do suit at the lord's court, &c.; and what accrues to the lord at their death. «Villein tenants» (2) _De custumariis_, or villein tenants; how many there are, and what is their suit; how much each has, and what it is worth, both _de antiquo dominico_ and _de novo perquisito_; to what amount they can be tallaged without reducing them to poverty and ruin; what is the value of their '_operationes_' and '_consuetudines_'--their day-works and customary duties--and what rent they pay; and which of them can be tallaged '_ratione sanguinis nativi_,' and who not. «Officers.» Then there follows a statement of the duties of the usual officials of the manor. «The seneschal, or steward;» First there is the _seneschal_,[44] or steward, whose duty it is to hold the Manor Courts and the View of Frankpledge, and there to inquire if there be any withdrawals of customs, services, and rents, or of suits to the lord's courts, markets, and mills, and as to alienations of lands. He is also to check the amount of seed required by the _præpositus_ for each manor, for under the seneschal there may be several manors. «who arranges the ploughing and the plough teams.»