Smyth, J., Lives of the Berkeley
Family quoted, 50, 122, 188, 190,

191, 265

Soil, alleged exhaustion of, 78, 79
" Somour games", 264, 273; and see

Sports and pastimes
Sowing, 107

Spigurnel, Justice, 197, 198
Sporting chance, the, 20, 112
Sports and pastimes, Ch. x, passim
Squire of Low Degree, The, 290
Standard, Battle of the, 119
Statuta Pistorum, 133
Stenton, Prof. F. M., 72
Steward (Seneschal), 20 ff., zoo,

i57ff., 270; accounts and, 189;

advent of, 20,143,161; description

of, in Fleta, 158; duties of, 158 ff.;

emoluments of, 158; oath taken by,

I59n.; presides at Manor Court,

158, 160, 161, 206; qualities of,

159, 160; servants of, 143, 161;
status of, 157,158; warning tenants
of coming of, 70

Stocks, 192

Stonor Letters, The, 237

Stow, John, Survey of London

quoted, 260, 261

Straw, 80, 232; for thatching, 228
Stubble, 85, 229
Stukeley, Sir Joscelin of, 157
— Sir Walter of, 158
Supernatural, appeal to the, 212,
. 213
Superstition, 34 ff., 321, 334,

335

Swineherd, the village, 92, 108
Switzerland, village life in, 225, 228,

237, 345, 32i
Symbolism, 32, 33, 324

Tables, trestle, 12, 17, 233, 234
Tallage, 138 ff., 278, 279, 293; ad
voluntatem domini, 138, 139; as-
sessment of, 141; by force and
oppression, 139, 140; commuted,
141; fixed, 140, 141
Tally, 161, 181, 186, 187, 191
Taxes, on movables, 90; one-
fifteenth, 119

"Teapot Hall", Lincolnshire, 226
Templars, mills of the, 130
Testament, last, see Wills
Thatch, 227, 228
Thatcher, 228, 229

INDEX 363
Thatching, 60, 85, 108
Three-field system, 56, 77, 79; and
see Field-systems
Threshing, 85, 104
Timber rights, 230, 231; and see
Wood
Tithe, 30, 84, 84 n. 4, 113, 144, 330,
33i
Tithing, 23, 303
— men, 22, 23, 169, 218
Tofts, 65
Tooting Bee, Manor of, heriot on the,
149
Towneley Plays, The, 30
Towns, advantages of, 294ff.; at-
traction of, to serfs, 277, 278,
291 ff.; buy their freedom, 292 ff.;
"chartered", 299; citizenship of,
300; created, 297, 298; "for-
eigners" in, 295, 296, 304; free-
man of, 300; partially free, 293;
residence in, by serfs, 298 ff.;
rights of privileged classes in, 304
Trades and occupations, 66 ff.
Trulliber, Parson, 31
"Two-field system", 56, 77; and see
Field-systems
Undermanrd, 59, 65 ff., 95; as
manorial servants, 182, 183
Vale Royal, Manors of the Abbey of:
heriot demands by, 101, 102, 146;
mortuary demands by, 146, 250;
wills of serfs invalid on, 250
Valle Dei (Vaudey), 160
"Verge", the, 21, 221 and n. i
Vetches, 77
Village, the, 41; size of average
English, 240
"Villein nest", 301
Vinogradoff, Sir Paul, 65, 71, 100,
138, 139 n., 142, 15$, 166, 203,
221, 240, 286, 314 -
Virgaters, 89
Visitation of the diocese of Hereford,
248, 332ff.
Visitation records, 332ff.; and see
Hereford, Sarum
Visitations, clerical, 327 ff.
Vitry, Jacques de, 150
"Wakes", see Funerals
Wall paintings, 9, 32, 323, 324
Walnuts, 232