To this evidence from the counties of Worcester and Gloucester we may add the evidence of the Custumal of Bleadon, in Somersetshire, also dating from the thirteenth century. The manor belonged to the Prior of St. Swithin, at Winchester. There were very few _libere tenentes_. The tenants in villenage were _virgarii_, or holders of virgates, and _dimidii-virgarii_, or holders of half-virgates. There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels, or one-eighth-virgates, and other small cottier tenants. Four virgates went to the hide. And the services were very similar to those of the Gloucester and Worcester tenants. They are described at too great length to be inserted here. We may, however, notice the importance amongst other items of the _carrying service_ or _averagium_--a service often mentioned among villein services, but here defined with more than usual exactness.[63] In short, without going further into details, it is obvious that the open field system and the serfdom which lived within it were practically the same in their general features in the west and in the east of England. The following are the examples of the services in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire:-- [p058] VILLEIN SERVICES. GLOUCESTERSHIRE _Services of a Virgate._[64] A. B. holds 1 virgate of 48 acres (in the manor of s. d. Hartpury), with messuage, and 6 acres of meadow land. From Michaelmas till August 1 he has to plough one day a week, each day's work being valued at 3½ And to do manual labour 3 days a week, each day's work being valued at ½ On the 4th day to carry horse-loads (_summagiare_), if necessary, to Preston and other manors, and Gloucester, each day's work being valued at 1 Once a year to carry to Wick, valued at 3 To plough one acre called '_Eadacre_,'[65] and to thresh the seed for the said acre, the ploughing and threshing being valued at 4 To do the ploughing called '_beneherthe_' with one meal from the lord, valued _ultra cibum_ at 1 To mow the lord's meadow for 5 days, and more if necessary, each day's work being valued _ultra opus manuale_ at 1 To lift the lord's hay for 5 days 2½ To hoe the lord's corn for one day (besides the customary labour), with one man, valued at ½ To do 1 '_bederipa_' before autumn with 1 man, valued at 1½ To work in the lord's harvest s. d. 5 days a week with 2 men, from August 1 to Michaelmas, valued per week at 1 3 To do 1 '_bederipa_,' called '_bondenebedripa_,' with 4 men, valued at 6