364 INDEX

Walter of Henley, see Henley, Walter

of

War, peasant and, 118 ff., 144, 239
"Warren, beasts of the", 94
"Waste", economic importance of,

59> 6°, 93

— the, 43, 54, 56, s8ff.,g3
Wattle-and-daub, 227
Weeds, 23, 82, 83

"Week-work", 106, 279; com-

muted, 183; and see Works
Wells, Manors of Dean and Chapter

of, 285, 287; allowances to reeve

on, 176

— Precentor of, 159
Welsh marches", 120, 121, 298
Westminster, Manors of the monks

of, 167

— Second Statute of (1285), 57
"Wet" boons, 16, 19, in
Whalley, district of, 58

Wheat, 77, 83, 86 ff., 184, 235;

bushels sown per acre, 86, 87;

price per quarter, 89; threshing of,

104; yield per acre, 86, 87
Wheelwright, 229
Whitsun, holidays at, n8
Widow, 21, 102; freebench of, 251,

252; re-rnarriage of, 243 ft0., 255;

rights of, 252; surrender of holding

by, 252; unchastity of, 252, 255
"Will of the lord, the" (voluntas

domini), 100 ff.
Willelmi Articuli Retractati, 299,

300

Wills (citizens), 303
— (peasants), 248 ff.; attitude of

Church to, 249, 250; attitude of

clergy to, 250; attitude of lords to,

249, 251; nuncupative, 249
Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canter-

Winchester, Manors of the bishop of:
commutation on, 280; election of
reeve on, 170; hospitality on, 165;
week-works on, 106, 114; yield of
corn on, 86

— Statute of (1285), 120, 124

— Synod of (1308), 250
Winchester fair, 160
Wine, 160
Winnowing, 85
Witham, Priory of, 285
Wolsoy, Archbishop, 33, 325
"Wonders of the world", the, 34
Wood, carnage of, no; for house

repairs, 230, 231; importance of-
in medieval life, 59, 60, 84, 229 ff.

"Wood-penny", 99

Woods and forests, 43, 84, 85, 231,
260 ff.

Woodward, 182, 231 «

Woodwright, see Carpenter

Work (peasant's), controlled by
bailiff or reeve, 164,174; definition
of what constitutes a-day's, 104,
105; dislike of forced, 279;'
excused, 117, 118, 204; exemption
from, 113 ff. ^money value of, 106,
279; and see Boon-work, Com-
mutation

Works, Ch. V, passim; and see
Carrying services, Commutation

Writs, 308 ff. j de homine replegiando,
31 o; de libertate probanda, 310,312;
de nativo habendo, 309, 312,^314;^
pone, 309

Wykeham, William- of, 280

Year and a day, 298 ff.
Year Books, quoted, 197, 198
Yield of crops, 86 ff.; on demesne,

86; on peasants' land, 87
Yule log, 262

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