3S6 INDEX

Coventry Leet Book, The, 135

Cows, 4, 6, 90, 91; value of, 91

Cre*cy, peasant soldiers at, 124

Criminals serve as soldiers, 125

Crofters, 63, 64 n. i, 65 ff.

Crops, carrying of a neighbour's, 48,
218

Crowland, Abbot of, 196

— Manors of the monks of: heriot
on the, 148, 149; juries on, 212;
provision for old age on, 254

Crucks, 226

Cunningham, Dr W., 115, 155

Custom, force of, 44,49» 5*» 58> 178,
242, 252

"Custom of the country", no, 118,
242

"Custom of the Manor, the**, 15,
58, 100 fT., 131, 150, 154, 208,
219, 305; fine according to, 219;
tallage according to, 138

Customals, 17, 65, 102, 154, 164,
190, 262, 305; exactness in de-
fining duties and privileges in,
105, 178; origination of, 101

Dancing, 13, 269; attitude of Church
to, 14, 269; on feast-days, 264,
269 n. i

Danelegh, the, 41, 42 n. 4
Dartmoor Forest, 58
Death-dues, see Heriot, Mortuary
Deer, 182

Delisle, Leopold, 155
Demesne, the Lord's, 66, 70, 85,
iS3> 176; cultivation of, 182, 183;
distribution of, 106, 107; meadows
form part of, 176; peasant's
animals folded on, 77, 78, 91, 108;
ploughed by serfs, 64, 70, 107;
yield of wheat on, 86, 87
Demons [Devil], belief in, 36, 37, 336
Denton, W., 78, 115
"Devil's chapel, the", 267
Ditching, 82

Dives and Pauper quoted, 116
Domestic utensils, 229, 230, 232 fL
Dominic, St, 36
"Dooms", the, 100,101, 206 rl.; and

see Jury, Manor Court
Douglas, Mr D. C., 42 n. 4, 72
Dovecotes and doves, 93, 94; value

of, 94 n. 2

Drink, of peasants: ale, 5, 13, 17,
m, 235,236; cider, 108, in, 235,

236; milk, 90, 91; penny-ale, 13,
334
"Dry" boons, 19, in
Dunstable, peasants' revolts at, 102,
139
Durham, Manors of the Bishop of:
carrying services on the, 109, no,
161; forced hospitality on, 161;
multure on, 133; repairs to mill by
tenants of, 135; steward of, 143,161
Durham Hahnote Rolls, 233, 254
Easter, holidays at, 118, 262, 273
Ecclesiastical courts, 217, 247
Edward I, 120, 123, 124, 297, 298
Edward III, 120, 124
Eels, 95
Eggs, gift of, to lord, 99
Ely, Bishop of, court of, 122
Enfranchisement, see Freedom
Ernie, Lord, 115 n. 4, 229, 230
Essoins, 21, 205, 206, 220; and see
Manor Court
Evans, Joan, Medieval France, 81
n. 5, 82 n. 3
Exeter, Bishop Grandisson of, see
Grandisson
— Synod of (1287), 249
Extents, 65, 69, 71, 149, *54> 164,
190, 278; difficulties of inter-
preting, 106; nature of, 154
Eynsham, Manors of monks of:
flight from manors of, 308, 309;
reeve excused rent on, 176 •
Eyre, 173; and see Assizes
Fairs, 77, 173; courts of, 206
— West of England, 160
— Winchester, 160
Fallow, the, 5, 77» 79, 82, 84, 89, gz
Family, the, Ch. ix, passim, 51, 69,
103; arrangements for old age
made by, 253, 254; average num-
ber of the medieval, 240; death
duties and the, 145 ff.; grain con-
sumption of, 88; produced to
prove servile status, 312if.; rate
of increase of, 239, 240
Famine, 237 and n. 2; see also
Plagues
Famuli, 182 tT.; allowances and pay-
ments to, 184; and see Carters,
Ploughmen, etc.
Farm buildings (atria), 17, 18, 163,
164, 184; repairs to, 107, 108