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
Then follow what really are sub-sections of the latter clause, and
they describe the services of the various classes of _geneats_; first
of the cottiers.
«Cottier's services.»
KOT-SETLAN RIHT.
Kote-setlan riht. be ðam ðe on lande stent. On sumon he sceal
ælce Mon-dæge ofer geares fyrst his laforde wyrcan. oðð .III.
dagas ælcre wucan on hærfest.
ne ðearf he land-gafol syllan. Wim ge-byriað [.V.] æceras to
habbanne. mare gyf hit on lande ðeaw sy. ⁊ to lytel hit bið beo
hit a læsse. forðan his weorc sceal beon oft-ræde. sylle his
heorð-pænig on halgan Ðunres dæg. eal swa ælcan frigean men
gebyreð. ⁊ werige hid hlafordes inland. gif him man beode. æt
sæ-wearde ⁊ æt cyniges deor-hege. ⁊ æt swilcan ðingan swilc his
mæð sy. ⁊ sylle his cyric-sceat to Martinus mæssan. ►
COTSETLE RECTUM.
Cotsetle rectum est juxta quod in terra constitutum est. Apud
quosdam debet omni die Lune per anni spatium operari domino
suo, et tribus diebus unaquaque septimana in Augusto. Apud
quosdam operatur per totum Augustum, omni die, et unam acram
avene metit pro diurnale opere. Et habeat garbam suam quam
præpositus vel minister domini dabit ei. Non dabit landgablum.
Debet habere quinque acras ad perhabendum, plus si consuetudo
sit ibi, et parum nimis est si minus sit quod deservit, quia
sepius est operi illius. Det super heorðpenig in sancto die
Jovis, sicut omnis liber facere debet, et adquietet inland
domini sui, si submonitio fiat de sewarde, id est de custodia
maris, vel de regis deorhege, et ceteris rebus que sue mensure
sunt; et det suum cyricsceatum in festo Scĩ Martini.
COTTIER'S SERVICES.
_The cottier's services are what on the land is fixed. On some
he shall each Monday in the year work for his lord, and three
days a week in harvest._
_He ought not to pay_ land-gafol. _He ought to have_ five
acres _in his holding, more if it be the custom on the land,
and too little it is if it be less: because his work is often
required. He pays_ hearth-penny _on Holy Thursday, as pertains
to every freeman, and defends his lord's inland, if he is
required, from_ sea-ward _and from king's_ deer-hedge, _and
from such things as befit his degree. And he pays his kirkshot
at Martinmas_.
Then the services of the _gebur_ or holder of a _yard-land_ are
described as follows:--
«Gebur's services.»
«Week-work.»
«Gafol.»
«Bene-work.»
«Gafol-yrth.»
«Outfit of two oxen to yard-land.»
GEBURES GERIHTE.
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