INDEX

357

Fealty, 22, 163
Feast-days, see Holy-days
jenestralls, 228
Fens, the, 182
Festivals, agricultural, 269
Field-systems, 43, 56
Filberts, 232
Filius nullius, 311
Fire-bote, see Wood
Fish, 234, 235; dried, 235
Fishing, 94, 95, 270
Fishing-rights, 95, 270
Fitzherbert, A., Book of Husbandry

(iS34), 81 n. i, 83 n. 2
Fitzstephen, 260 ff.
Flail, 85

Flax, 82, 83, 230
Fleta, 155 ff., 166, 300; quoted,

158

Fold, the lord's, 77, 78, 91, 108
Food (peasants), 5, 6, 12, 13, 24,

185, 234 ff-» 253; at harvest, 17 ff.,

in; at Yuletide, 262; and see

Bacon

— carriage of lord's, 109, no;
demanded by lord's officers, 143

Ford, Ford Madox, 187
Forest, 51 ff., 269; assarting in, 52,
53; and see Woods and forests

— Court of the, 53
"Forest, Beasts of the", 94
Forester, 182
forismaritagiumt 241, 242

. " Few-manage", see forismaritagium
France, scene in mountain village of,
238; village house in, 225, 226;
village life in, 225, 236, 237,

245

Frank-pledge, view of, 158,195,199,
200, 208, 218; and see Capital
pledges

Free labourers, 65

Free man, acts as manorial official,
157; advantages enjoyed by, 99;
attends Manor Court, 199, 201,
202, 204, 208, 209, 211; bears
arms, 119, 120; by flight, 279;
claim to be a, 309; gives verdicts in
Manor Court, 208, 209; marriage
of, with unfree, 243; pays no
tallage, 140; pays smaller multure,
135; refuses to serve as reeve, 169;
renders week-works, 103; rents
and services of, 154; stranger
settling in a vill is deemed a, 311

"Freebench", 251, 252
Freedom (peasant's), Ch. xi, passim;
causes working toward, 277;
methods of gaining, 298, 306 ff.;
states of comparative, 278, 284;
and see Liberty, seisin of, Manu-
mission, Writs
Freemasons, 302
"Free-warren", 94
Fruit, 232; and see Apples, Pear trees,
etc.
Funerals, 265; feasting at, 265
Furlongs, 44, 63
Furniture (peasant's), 6 ff., 12, 13,
232 ff, 238
Gallows, 196 ff.
Garden produce (peasant's), 4, 5,
232
Gardening (medieval), 232 and note
Gardinum, 232
Garlic, 232
Gavelkind, see "Borough English"
Geese, 92, 234; at mills, 135
gersuma, 251
Gesta Romanorum, 36
gestum, 262
Gilds, admission to, of serfs, 301,
302; despotic nature of, 304
Giraldus Cambrensis on St Hugh of
Lincoln, 147
gtte, see Hospitality
Glanvill, 149, 242, 243, 286, 298
Glastonbury, Manors of the monks
of: ales on the, 266; bailiff's
powers on, 164; feasting at Christ-
mas on, 262; reeve's privileges on,
176; scot-ales at, 266; serfs food
at, 262
Glebe lands, 329
Gloucester, Manors of the monks of,
105: accounts on, 187; communal
responsibility of peasants on, 171;
fulstingpound on, 231; harvest
customs on, 112; leave of absence
required on, 306; tallage on, 141
Gloves for harvesting, 84
Goose, 185; and see "Rep-goose"
Gower, J., 247, 3^8
Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, 283
Grasses, 77
Gray, H. L., English Field Systems,
43 n. 3, 72
Great Plague, see Black Death
Gregory the Great, 35 n.