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INDEX

Barbour, John, 283

Barley, 77, 87, 89

Battle, Manors of the monks of:
carrying services on, 109; election
of reeve on, 170; harvest meals on,
5535; harvest supper given on, 111;
reeve's salary paid by serfs on, 175,
176

Beadle, 15, 21, 156, 169, 179, 181,
182, 205; duties of, 179, 181, 202

— and hayward confused, 179
Beans, 80, 81, 87, 232, 234
Beds, 161, 233

Belknap, Justice, 240
Bennett, Mr M. K., 86
Bereford, Justice, 301
Berkeley, Maurice II, Lord, 50

— Maurice IV, Lord, 265

— Thomas, Lord, 122
Berkeley*, Lives of the, 50,122,188,265
Berkhamsted, steward of, 158
Berry Pomeroy, 296

Beveridge, Sir W., 86, 87

Bible, the, 35, 324

Bird-snaring, 93

Bishop, Mr T. A. M., 54

Black Death, the, 219, 308; effect on

condition of peasants, 280; effect

on population, 239, 240
Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury,

249
" Boon-works " (precariae), 15 ff.,

83 ff., 106, no, in; commuted,

280;dry, 19, in;wet, 16, 19, in;

ond see Works
Borough, see Towns
"Borough English", 256 and note
Boundary stones, 48, 220
Bracton, 103, 149, 201, 243, 280,

286, 300, 316
Bracton's Note Book quoted, s8n. 2,

s87

Bradwater, Richard, 215 ff.
Brakelond, Jocelin of, 129 n. i, 305

n. 2
Bread, 17,87 n. i, 89; assize of, 211;

baking of, 135*?-; rye, 184, 235;

rye and wheat (maslin), 235;

wasted, 262; wheat, 184, 235; and

see Baker, Oven
Brewing, 180; and see Ale
"Bride ales", 264 ff.
Bridgetown Pomeroy, 296, 300
Britton, 149, 243, 300, 313, 316
Bromyard, 267, 269

Brumpton, Justice, 311
Burton, Manors of the monks of:
borough founded on, 296; revolts
on, 102,170; treatment of serfs on,
349, 305
Bury St Edmunds, revolt at, 305
By-laws, manorial, 49, 89, 213
Cabbages, 232
Caesarius of Heisterbach, see Heister-
bach
Cam, Miss H. M., 314 n. i
Canon Law, 245, 281, 282, 288
Canterbury, Manors of the Arch-
bishop of, 54
— Manors of the monks of, 163,192
Capital pledges, 211; and see Frank-
pledge
Carpenter, the village, 66, 67, 107,
227
Carriage super dorsum, 109
Carrying services, 109, no, 164
Carters, allowances to, 88; salary of,
i?5
Caterpillars, 36
Chambers, Sir E. K., The Medieval
Stage, 263
Champion, quoted, 137
Charter Rolls, 300
Chase, the, 269 ff.
Chaucer, 135, 226, 247, 33*» 33*;
The Canterbury Tales quoted, 135,
167, 234, 239, 264, 331, 333, 33S
Chaucer's poor parson, 331, 33*533$,
Cheese, 13, 18, 91, 184, 234, 235
Cherries, 4, 232
Chestnuts, 232
Chevage, 307 ff.
Chichester, Manors of the Bishop
of, 66; agricultural services on,
107; audit of the accounts on, 189;
building operations on, 229; holy-
days not observed on, 116, 117;
hospitality demanded from men
on, 143; sick-leave on, 113, 114;
steward's coming on, 161
Chickens, 3, 92, 99, 234; at Christ-
mas, 307; at mills, 135
Children, 7, 18, 185, 186, 237 #•;
arrange for old age of parents, 253,
254; education of, for Holy Orders,
326;" mixed " marriages and, 242,
243
Christmas customs, 37, 118, 202,
262 ff., 307