[246]. A curiously contradictory name is met with in ‘Robert Frebond,’ found in the Hundred Rolls. The same roll contains the names of ‘Roger le Neubonde’ and ‘Emma Newbonde.’
[247]. Among the peasantry of Yorkshire the simple farm labourer is still a ‘hine’ or ‘hind.’
[248]. A ‘Cropper’ was a farm labourer who superintended the growth and cutting of the crops. In the Custom Roll of the Manor of Ashton-under-Lyne (Ch. Soc.) occurs the following:—‘Roger the Cropper, for his tenement, and whole service, the present 8d.; the farm, 15s.’ &c. Lower down mention is made also of ‘Robin the Cropper.’
[249]. ‘Digger’ also exists, and is found in an epitaph in St. Sepulchre’s, Middlesex.
‘Here lyes Robert Diggs and William Digger,
There’s no living soule knew which was the bigger,
They fared well and lived easy,
And now they’re both dead, an ’t shall please ye.’
Dingley’s History from Marble (Cam. Soc.).
[250]. Chappell’s Ballad Music, vol. i. 327.