[691] The duty of serving as reeve is therefore often treated as one of the characteristic marks of serfdom; e.g. Cambr. Univ., Gg. iv. 4, f. 26.
[692] Harl. MSS. 1006, f. 18: 'Debet esse messor ad frumentum et amerciamenta domini colligendum.'
[693] Shaftesbury Inqu., Harl. MSS. 61, f. 60: 'Arator ... debet invenire omnia instrumenta aratri ante rotas.'
[694] Ibid., f. 54: 'Bubulci et gadince.' Glastonbury Inqu. of 1189: 'Petras bovarius ... custodit boves domini et vadit ad aratrum.'
[695] 'Hereward,' Glastonbury Inqu., 24, 105, etc.; Domesday of St. Paul's, 53.
[696] Cartul. of Battle (Camden Ser.), f. 39, b: 'wodeward.'
[697] Bury St. Edmund's Reg., Cambr. Univ., Gg. iv. 4, f. 322, a: 'Ad istud pertinet tenementum falcacio claustri sed cum falce lurardi.'
[698] Glastonbury Inqu. of 1189, p. 36: 'Reginaldus thernebedellus tenet dimidiam virgatam terre et summonet homines ad comitatum et hundredum.'
[699] Ibid., 7; cf. 156.
[700] Ely Cart., Cotton MSS., Claudius, C. xi, f. 15, d: 'Debet namiare cum bedello et ceteris avermannis' (men provided with horses). Glastonbury Inqu. of 1189, p. 31: 'Robertus de Eadwic sequitur hundredum et comitatum ad suum costum.... Custodit preces arature et messis et debet adjuvare ad namia capienda infra hundredum et est quietus de pannagio.'