The holding of Pusey in Berks by the Pusey Horn, gifted, it is said, by King Canute, is well-known. Sir Philip de Somerville, knight, was bound to hunt and capture the Earl of Lancaster's _greese_ (wild swine) for my lord's larder upon St Peter's Day in August. This he did till Holy-Rood Day, when he dined with the steward, and after dinner "he shall kiss the porter and depart." This same Sir Philip de Somerville held the Manor of Whychenover at half terms from the Earl on condition that there ever hung in his hall one bacon flitch to be assigned to a happy married couple yearly in Lent, after a variety of ceremonies like those in the more famous case of Dunmow: the disposal of the flitch there being likewise according to "the custom of the manor." In the customs that made up the inner life of the manor one finds a diversity too great for classification. However, those old English folk were a merry lot; with usages not sad nor savage, but having much sensible joy in good meat and drink. At Baldock, in Hertfordshire, the Customary Court was holden at dinner-time, whereto every baker and vintner within the bounds must send bread and ale which the steward and his jury "cam' to pree," and presently gave their verdict "if these be wholesome for man's body or no." To the Manor of Hutton Conyers there was attached a great common, where many townships pastured their sheep; and the shepherd of each township "did fealty by bringing to the Court a large apple pie, and a twopenny sweet cake." For refreshment, "furmity and mustard, well mixed in an earthen pot, is placed before the shepherds, which they sup with spoons provided by themselves, and if any forget his spoon then, for so the customary law wills it, he must lay him down upon his belly, and sup the furmity with his face to the pot or dish." And the custom further permits the bystanders "to dip his face into the furmity," to the great delight of all present. To finer issues is the money provided by Magdalen College, Oxford, for certain manors of theirs in Hampshire, _pro mulieribus hockantibus_, as the dog Latin of the college accounts hath it. On Hock Day, annually, "the women stop the ways with ropes, and pull passengers to them, desiring something to be laid out in pious uses": the men having hocked the women after the same fashion the day before. There are traces of this usage further afield than Hampshire. Not less jovial were the tenants of South Malling, in Kent, who were bound to pay scot-ale, which fund they agreeably expended in "drink with the bedel of the Lord Archbishop." The case of Stamford, in Lincoln, is noteworthy as showing the origin of one peculiar custom. In the time of King John, William, Earl Warren, was lord of the place. One day he saw from his castle wall "two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadow;" their bellowing attracted all the butcher's dogs in the place; and these, in company with a host of rag-tag and bobtail, chased one of the champions in