[351] Eynsham Cartulary, Christ Church MSS., No. 97, f. 6, a: 'Willelmus F. tenet unum cotagium et quartam partem unius virgate terre qui facere consuevit pro rata porcione sicut virgatarius. Modo ponitur ad firmam dum domina placet ad 6 solidos, 8 d.,' etc. Cf. Domesday of St. Paul's (Camden Series), 81. This is in substance the difference between 'bondagium et husbandland,' Inquis. p. mort. 46 Henry III, No. 25; Hexham Priory Cartulary (Surtees Series), p. xx.
[352] Domesday of St. Paul's (Camden Series), 49.
[353] St. Alban's Formulary, Cambridge Univ., Ee. iv. 20: 'Ne uno homini plures terre tradantur, et si modo unus plures tenet, dividantur, si commode et honeste fieri poterit.'
[354] Domesday of St. Paul's (Camden Series), 52; Duchy of Lancaster Court Rolls, B. 62, No. 750: 'Et quia huiusmodi tenementum nullus potest vendicare hereditarie ut de aliis villenagiis successive.'
[355] Hereford Rolls, 8 (Bodleian): 'Et concessum est ei tenere dictum mesuagium et unam acram terre sibi et heredibus suis secundum consuetudinem manerii per servicia inde debita et consueta.' Essex Rolls, 8 (Bodleian): 'Amicia de R. que tenet ex consuetudine manerii.'
[356] Extractus Rotulorum de Halimotis, Cambridge Univ, Dd. vii. 22, f. 1, a.
[357] Essex Rolls, 8 (Bodleian), m. 6: 'Johannes filius W.B. venit et clamavit unum mesuagium et quatuor acras terre cum pertinenciis ut jus et hereditatem suam post mortem dicti W. patris sui faciendo inde dominis predictis servicia debita et consueta nomine villenagii et dat domino ad inquirendum de jure suo et si sit plene etatis et heres dicti W. nec ne,' etc.
[358] Eynsham Cartulary, Christ Church MSS., No. 27, f. 11, b: 'Matildis B. tenet de domino unum cotagium cum curtilagio in voluntate domini.' Cf. Glastonbury Inqu. (Roxburghe Series), 66; Gloucester Cartulary (Rolls Series), iii. 134; Domesday of St. Paul's (Camden Series), 23.
[359] Reg. Cellararii Mon. Bury St Edmund's, Cambridge Univ., Gg. iv. 4, f. 52, b: '(Curia 7 Edw. II) ... dicunt quod quidam Robertus Heth pater dictorum R.W. et J. tenuit de conventu per virgam in villa de Berton magna ... Et quia dedixerunt cepisse dictam terram per virgam ideo potest seisiri dicta terra in manum domini.' Registr. album vestiarii abbatiae S. Edmundi, Cambridge Univ., Ee. iii. 60, f. 188, b: 'Tenentes de mollond ... tenent per virgam in curia.' Eynsham Cartulary, Christ Church MSS., No. 97: 'Ricardus W. tenet unum cotagium et duas acras terrae campestres per rotulum curie pro 3 sol.' Cf. 12, a.
[360] Note-book of Bracton, pl. 1237.