[421] Spalding Priory Cart., Cole MSS., xliii. p. 296.
[422] Rot. Hundr. ii. 780 b.
[423] Spalding Cart. p. 295.
[424] Ibid. p. 283: 'bondus dat auxilium ... scil. omnes sokemanni unam marcam.' Cf. 292.
[425] Ely Inqu., Cotton MS., Claudius, C. xi. 50, b: 'Tota villata tam liberi, quam alii debent facere 40 perticatas super Calcetum de Alderhe [Aldreth's Causeway] sine cibo et opere.' Cf. Domesday of St. Paul's, 75.
[426] Domesday of St. Paul's, 76, 77; Rot. Hundr. ii. 764, b.
[427] Domesday of St. Paul's, 32: 'Omnes isti libere tenentes metunt et arant ad precarias domini et ad cibum eius sine forisfacto.' The general rule is, that freeholders join only in the boon-works (precariae) and not in the regular week-work. But socmen are found engaged in this latter also.
[428] Ely Inqu., Cotton MSS., Claudius, C. xi. f. 266: 'De feodis militum et libere tenentibus ... heriet ... relevium ... sed non dabit tallagium et gersumam.' 167 b: 'herietum ... relevium ... pannagium ... tallagium.' Ramsey Cart. i. 297.
[429] Gloucester Cart. iii. 49 and 46; Battle Cart., Augm. Off. Misc. Books, N. 57, f. 10, b.
[430] Ely Inqu., Cotton MSS., Claudius, C. xi. f. 186, b: 'Omnes custumarii preter liberos qui non dant gersumam pro filiis et filiabus ...'