The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2): A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquestKemble, John Mitchell
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The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2): A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest
Kemble, John Mitchell
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Werhard gave two juga or geoc of land to Canterbury. The rent of one at
Lambahám was forty _pensas_ (weys) of cheese, or an equivalent in lambs
and wool; the other, at Northwood, rendered one hundred and twenty
measures, which the English call ambers, of salt[577].
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Footnote 577:
Cod. Dipl. No. 220. an. 832.
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Lufe, in 832, charged the inheritors and assigns of her land at
Mundlinghám, with the following yearly payment to Canterbury, for ever;
that is to say: Sixty ambers of malt, one hundred and fifty loaves,
fifty white loaves, one hundred and twenty alms-loaves, one ox, one hog
and four wethers, two weys of bacon and cheese, one mitta of honey, ten
geese and twenty hens[578].
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Footnote 578:
Ibid. No. 231.
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In 835, Abba, a reeve in Kent, charged his heirs with a yearly payment
to Folkstone, of fifty ambers of malt, six ambers of groats (gruta?),
three weys of bacon and cheese, four hundred loaves, one ox, and six
sheep, besides an allowance or stipend in money to the priests[579]. And
Heregyð, his wife, farther burthened her land at Challock with payments
to Canterbury, amounting to: thirty ambers of ale, three hundred loaves,
fifty of them white, one wey of bacon and cheese, one old ox, four
wethers, and one hog, or six wethers, six geese and ten hens, one sester
of honey, one of butter, and one of salt; and if her anniversary should
fall in winter, she added thirty wax-lights[580].
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Footnote 579:
Ibid. No. 235.
Footnote 580:
Cod. Dipl. No. 235.
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In 902, Bishop Denewulf leased fifteen hides of church-land at Eblesburn
to his relative Beornwulf for forty-five shillings a year, with liberty
to Beornwulf’s children to continue the lease. One shilling (sixty of
which went to the pound) is so very small a rent for ten acres, that we
must either suppose the land to have been unusually bad, or Beornwulf’s
connection with the bishop much in his favour[581]. He was also to aid
in cyricbót, and pay the cyric-sceat. About the same time Denewulf
leased forty hides at Alresford to one Ælfred, at the old rent of three
pounds per annum, or four shillings and a half per hide. He was however
also to pay _church-shot_, the amount of which is not stated, and to do
_church-shot-work_, and find men to the bishop’s reaping and
hunting[582].
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Footnote 581:
Ibid. No. 1079.
Footnote 582:
Ibid. No. 1086. In both cases the rent is called gafol.
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