The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

28. Whoever shall own the irons is to keep them in order, that the ploughman and driver be not impeded; and they are to have no assistance.

The driver is to furnish the bows of the yokes with wythes; and, if it be a long team, the small rings, and pegs of the bows.

See also Gwentian Code, p. 354; and the Leges Wallice, p. 801.

[150.] Ancient Laws, &c., p. 150, Venedotian Code. The worth of 'winter tilth of a cyvar two legal pence;' and so p. 286, Dimetian Code.

P. 153. 'The plough erw, which is called the ploughbot cyvar.'

P. 354, Gwentian Code. 'The worth of one day's ploughing is two legal pence.'

[151.] Ancient Laws, &c., p. 134.

[152.] See Du Cange under 'Diurnalis,' who quotes a passage of A.D. 704.

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