360

INDEX

Manorial administration and organi-
sation, Ch. vn passim, 65
Manorial jurisdiction, types of, 198,

199

Manorial officers, Ch. vn, passim;
and see Bailiff, Beadle, Hayward,
Reeve, Sergeant, Steward
Manorial population, Ch. in, passim
Manorial servants, 69, 103, 112,177,
184 ff.; corn allowances to, 88; and
see Carters, Ploughmen, etc.
Manorial system, 99, 100
Manorial treatises, 155 ff.
Manors, continuous struggle on the,
100, 101; variation of custom on
individual, 156, 176
Mansfield, Sir Gerald de, 134
Manuals of etiquette, 237
Manumission, 16, 278, 282 ff.; char-
ters of, 282, 283; conditional, 285,
286; constructive, 286 if.; for
orders, 288 ff.; law concerning,
286 ff.; payments for, 282 ff., 289;
and see Freedom
Manure, 77 ff., 84, 108
Map, Walter, 288
Market, town, 292 ff.
Marl, 78, 84
Marlborough, Statute of (1267), 201,

202

Marriage, 8, 51, 240ff.; celebrations
at, 264; compulsory, 244, 245;
fines for, 99, 240 ff., 278, 294,
295 n. 2; inheritance and, 243;
kinsfolk and, 245; "mixed", 242,
243, 287; re-marriage of widows,
243, 255; right of, bought by serfs,
242

"Marrows", 16, 45
Martham, manor of, 50, 142, 184,

185

Marvell, A., The Coy Mistress, 31
maslin, see Bread

Mass, the, 32, 33, 36, 323, 324,
328 ff.; attendance at, 115, 322;
clergy's ignorance of, 328; neglect
of, 332; superstition arising from,
36

Mass bell, 322

Mass, Canon of the, 325, 328
Mass clock, 6, 12
Mass penny, 31, 250
May Day, 35, 264, 273
Meadows, 5, 43, 55, 56, 82, 176;
held in common, 55

Meals, 236 ff.
Meat, 235
Meaux, peasants' revolts at, 102
"medkniche", 112
Medlars, 232
Meopham, Simon, Archbishop of
Canterbury, 116
Merchet, 99, 240 ff., 278, 294, 295
n. 2; and see Marriage
Merton, Statute of (1235), 57
Messor, see Hayward
Middleton, Richard, 139
Midsummer Watch, the, 35, 263,
269
Military service, n8ff., 144, 293;
peasants forced to render, 118 ff.
Milk, 90, 91
— sheep's, 91
Miller, the village, 67; character
of, 135; extortion of, 133; over-
worked, 131, 132
Millet, J. F., 30
Mills, Ch. vi, passim, 60, 293; farmed
out, 129; hand-, 131 ff.; numbers
of, 129, 130; pond of, 133; profits
on, 130, 130 n. i; stones for, 173;
structure and working of, 134;
tenants obliged to grind at lord's
mill, 130 ff., to repair lord's mill,
I34> 135; windmills, 129 n. i
Ministers' Accounts, 139, 140, 155,
167; described, 186 ff.; and see
Auditors
Miracle-plays, u, 12, 274 r *
Money payments by serf, 99, 102,
103
Moots, moot-halls, 203
More, Sir Thomas, The Four Last
Things, 31
Morris, Dr J. E., The Welsh Wars of
Edward I, 120, 123, 124
Morte D* Arthur, 290
Mortmain, see Heriot, Mortuary
Mortuary, 30, 144 ff., 250; oppres-
sive nature of, 145 ; theory of, 144,
145
Multure (Multura), 133
Mum and the Sothsegger quoted, 25,
26
Mummers' play, the, 263
Murder, 218
Murrain, 91, 186
Mustard, 232
Muster Rolls, 121
Musters, 122, 124