“Throughout that land each yardland pays twelve pence, and four alms-pence: at every weir within the thirty hides, every second fish belongs to the landlord, besides every uncommon fish worth having, sturgeon or porpoise, herring or sea-fish; and no one may sell any fish for money when the lord is on the land, until he have had notice of the same. In Dyddenham the services are very heavy. The geneát must work, on the land or off the land, as he is commanded, and ride and carry, lead load and drive drove, and do many things beside. The gebúr must do his rights; he must plough half an acre for week-work, and himself pay the seed in good condition into the lord’s barn for _church-shot_, at all events from his own barn: towards _werbold_[593], forty large trees[594] or one load of rods; or eight _geocu_ build[595], three _ebban_ close: of field enclosure fifteen rods, or let him ditch fifteen; and let him ditch one rod of burg-enclosure; reap an acre and a half, mow half an acre; work at other works ever according to their nature. Let him pay sixpence after Easter, half a sester of honey at Lammas, six sesters of malt at Martinmas, one clew of good net yarn. In the same land it is customary that he who hath seven swine shall give three, and so forth always the tenth, and nevertheless pay for common of masting, if mast there be[596].” ----- Footnote 589: _Geset land_ I have rendered by set out or let; as land is afterwards said to be set out to rent, tó gafole gesett. Footnote 590: The cytweras and hæcweras were weirs or places for taking fish, but I cannot distinguish their nature. The names would induce us to think the former were shaped like a modern eel-trap, the latter were formed with a slat or hatch. Footnote 591: An enclosure on the water. See Cod. Dipl. iii. p. xxvii. Footnote 592: Welsh navigators. Footnote 593: Werbold, the construction of the weir or place for catching fish. Footnote 594: Mǽra, of large wood in opposition to rods? Footnote 595: Let him build eight _yokes_ in the weir, and close three _ebban_. What these geocu and ebban are, I cannot say. Footnote 596: Cod. Dipl. No. 461. ----- Unquestionably these are heavy dues, and much aggravated by the circumstances of the estate or yardland being but small, the tenant born free, and some of the services uncertain. I shall conclude this chapter with a few lines translated from that most valuable document called “Rectitudines singularum personarum[597];” as far as the cases of the Geneát, Cotsetla and Gebúr are concerned[598]. First of the Geneát or comrade.