358 INDEX

Halesowen, Manor of: essoins on the,
205, 206; fine for entry onto, 148;
heriot on the, 148 ff.; incontinency
on, 246; military service by
peasants of, 121, 122; suit of mill
owed on, 131
Hallmote, 198, 203, 208; and see

Manor Court
Hanging, see Gallows
Hardy, Thomas, quoted, 3, 227 n. 3
Harrison, W., 228, 233
Harrow, 81, 82
Harrowing, 81, 107
Hartley, Miss D., Life and Work of
the People of England (Fourteenth
Century), 81 n. 2; Thomas Tusser,
81 n. 2, 82 n. 3

Harvest, 69, 82; customs, nofT.;
extra rations at, 17 ff., 105, in;
extra work at, notice of, 181; extra
work demanded at, 105, no, in;
festivals associated with, 262; food
at, 235; hay ward and, 17 ff., 180;
hours of work at, 104, 105; mis-
demeanours at, 22, 112, 113;
overseers at, 64, 177, 180, 181;
reeve and, 177; whole family works
at, 15, 83, 104, no, in; works
last to be commuted, 280
Hastings, Rape of, 121
Haye-bote, see Wood
Hayward, 15, 21, 55, "3* 178ff.;
bribed to excuse military service,
122; and beadle confused, 179;
dishonest, 180, 181; duties of,
i79ff.; election of, 180; rewards
of, 180

Hayward's horn, 17 ff.
Headlands, 44
Hearnshaw, Prof. F. J. C., 205,

210 n. i

Hedges, 44, 82; absence of, 5
Heisterbach, Caesarius of, Dialogus

Miraculorum, 36, 48
Hell, pictures of, on church walls, 9,

32, 324
Hemp, 82, 83

Henley, Walter of, 79, 81, 86, 90, 91,
92,113,117,155,166,189,190,279
Henry II, 285
Herbs, 232

Hereford, visitation of, 1397, 332 ff.
hergeat, see Heriot

Heriot, 31, 101, 102, 143 ff., 188,
35i, 293, 294; heriot and "relief"

confused, 148, 149 J income arising
from, 147; intricate problems con-
cerning, 149; not claimed, 146,
147; oppressive nature of, 145,
146; theory of, 143, 144
Herle, Justice, 309
Herrings, 184, 235
Hewitt, Mr H,J., 53, 54
Higham Ferrers, manor of, 303:
borough founded on, 294; doves
at, 94; rabbits at, 93
Hired labourers, see Famuli
Hock Day, 269
Holy-days, 6, 9, 13, 106, 114 ff., 204;
number of, allowed to peasant,
117, 118; observance of, 115 ff.,
334
Holy Orders, 288, 289
Holy-water carrier, 9, 326
"Hook or by crook, By", 59, 131
Hopper, 80
Horses, 90
Hortus, 232
Hosebonderie quoted, 87, 88 n. i, 90,
92, 171
Hospitality, forced, given to lord,
142, 143, 161; on manors, 165
Hous-bote, see Wood
Household furniture, see Furniture
— goods, 145 ff.
Houses, Ch. ix, passim; animals in,
225, 226, 239; chimneys in, 228;
construction of, 67, 226 ff.; con-
temporary pictures of, 231; fragile f
nature of, 22, 227, 230; interior of,
232, 238; repair of, 230; size of,
253; ventilation of, 228
How to hold Pleas and Courts,
204
Hudson, Mr W., 104 n. 2, 105,
ii9n. 3, 296
Hull, 141
Hundred Court, the, 173, 199
Hundred Rolls, The, 143, 184;
oppression by bailiffs in, 165
Hunting, 93, 94
Incontinency, 217; and see Leyrwite
Indenture system for soldiers, 125
infangenethef, 196, 198
Inn, see Ale-house
Inning, see Assarts
Innocent III, 245
Inquisitio Nonarum, 184
Inter-commoning, 58, 59