[741] Rot. Hundr. ii. 348.
[742] Ib. 443, 444. Isabel, the daughter of William le Frend, is taken as a typical half-virgater.
[743] Rot. Hundr. ii. 326.
[744] Ib. ii. 327.
[745] Ib. ii. 436.
[746] Ib ii. 438.
[747] Ib. ii. 473.
[748] Rot. Hundr. 470: '(villani) quilibet istorum tenet dimidiam virgatam terre de predicta Elena de quibus xxx et 1 operantur in uno anno et alii xxxij operantur in alio anno et in eodem anno quo operantur dant domine per annum 8 d. et alii qui non operantur dant per annum quilibet dimidius virgatarius 2 s. 10 d. et auxilium Vicecomitis 1 d. obolum et quilibet dat obolum, quadrantem ad festum St. Michaelis.'
[749] Maitland, Select Pleas in Manorial Courts, vol. i. 95: A reeve complains that Richer Jocelin's son and Richard Reeve and his wife have insulted him, by saying among other things '... quod cepisse debuit munera de divitibus ne essent censuarii et pauperes ad censum posuisse debuit.'
[750] It might perhaps be objected that the difference in favour of the free people ought to be explained by a depreciation of money which in process of time lowered the value of quit rents. But the explanation would hardly suit the age in which the Hundred Rolls were compiled. The phenomenon mentioned in the text may be observed in all the Cartularies, and there is no reason to think that the free rents which occur in them are already antiquated survivals of agreements which had lost their economic sense.