From each hide, at the autumnal equinox, forty pence. Further they were to pay, six church-mittan of ale, and three sesters or horseloads of white wheat. Out of their own time they were to plough three acres, and sow them with their own seed, to house the produce, to pay three pounds of gafol-barley, to mow half an acre of gafolmead and stack the hay, to split four foðer orloads of gafolwood and stack it, to make sixteen rods of gafol-hedging[587]. At Easter they were further to pay two ewes and lambs, two young sheep being held equivalent to one old one: these they were to wash and shear out of their own time. Lastly, every week they were to do any work which might be required of them, except during the three weeks, at Christmas, Easter and the Gangdays[588]. ----- Footnote 587: Gafolbære, gafolmǽd, gafolwidu, gafoltúning. The Saxons knew well enough that all these things were _rent_; and all land put out upon rent of any kind was gafolland, gafolcund or _gavelkind_ land. Footnote 588: Cod. Dipl. No. 1077. ----- The following customs and payments are recorded in various manors: some of the words I cannot translate. “In Dyddanham there are thirty hides; nine of these are inland (demesne), twenty-one are let[589]. In Stræt are twelve hides, twenty-seven yards of gafolland; and on the Severn there are thirty cytweras[590]. In Middleton are five hides, fourteen yards of gafolland, fourteen cytweras on the Severn, and two hæcweras on the Way. At Kingston there are five hides, thirteen yards of gafolland, and one hide above the ditch which is now also gafolland, and that without the ham[591], is still in part inland, in part let out on rent to the ship-wealas[592]: to Kingston belong twenty-one cytweras on the Severn, and twelve on the Way. In Bishopstún are three hides, and fifteen cytweras on the Way: in Lancawet are three hides, two hæcweras on the Way, and two cytweras.