And to have their meals from the abbey when doing this service. To till 1½ acre at the grange of Neuton every year. To harrow with one horse one day. To find one man at the sheepwashing and another man at the shearing, without meals. To answer likewise for foreign service and for other suits. To carry corn in autumn with one waggon for one day. To carry the abbot's wool from the barony to the abbey. To find him carriage over the moor to Lessemahagu. REVEDEN[88] At Reveden-- The monks have 8 'husbands'-lands and 1 bovate, each of which performed certain services at one time, viz.: Each week in summer the carriage with 1 horse to Berwick. The horse to carry 3 '_bollæ_' of corn, or 2 '_bollæ_' of salt, or 1½ '_bollæ_' of coals. In winter the same carriage, but the horse only carried 2 '_bollæ_' of corn, or 1½ '_bollæ_' of salt, or 1 '_bolla_' and '_ferloth_' of coal. Each week, when they came from Berwick, each land did one day's work according to order. When they did not go to Berwick, they tilled 2 days a week. In autumn, when they did not go to Berwick they did 3 days' work. At that time each 'husband' took with his land '_stuht_,' viz.: 2 oxen, 1 horse, 3 'celdræ' of oats, 6 'bollæ' of barley, 3 'bollæ' of corn. And afterwards, when Abbot Richard commuted that service into money, they returned their '_stuht_,' and each one gave for his land 18s. a year. [p068] X. THE BOLDON BOOK, A.D. 1183. We are now in a position to creep up one step nearer to the time of the Domesday Survey, and in the Boldon Book to examine earlier examples of North Country manors. The Boldon Book is a survey of the manors belonging to the Bishop of Durham in the year 1183, nearly a century earlier than the date of the Hundred Rolls. «Survey of _Boldon_.» The typical entry which may be taken as the common form used throughout the record relates to the village of Boldon, from which the name of the survey is taken. It is as follows:[89]-- «The services of villani.» In Boldon there are 22 villani, each holding 2 bovates, or 30 acres, and paying 2s. 6d. for 'scat-penynges' [being in fact 1d. per acre], a half '_shaceldra_' of oats, 16d., for 'averpenynges' [in lieu of carrying service], 5 four-wheel waggons of 'woodlade' [lading of wood], 2 cocks, and 10 eggs. They work 3 days a week throughout the year, excepting Easter week and Pentecost, and 13 days at Christmas. In autumn they do 4 dayworks at reaping, with all their family except the housewife. Also they reap 3 roods of '_averype_,' and plough and harrow 3 roods of '_averere_.' Also each villein plough-team ploughs and harrows 2 acres, with allowance of food ('_corrodium_') once from the bishop, and then they are quit of that week's work.