[111] Merton Documents, 5902.
[112] Northumberland County History, vol. viii., p. 220 (one may add that in parts of Northumberland the labourers are still called “bondagers”; Mr. Clay tells me that in the Calder valley farmers still use “daywork” as a unit for measuring fields). See also Calendar of Proceedings in Chancery, temp. Eliz., D. d. 2, 44, for a suit by a farmer to recover services due from tenants.
[113] Pembroke Surveys.
[114] Chetham Society Miscellanies, vol. iii.
[115] Pembroke Surveys, Estoverton and Phipheld: “Tenentes de Estoverton reddunt annuatim pro pannagio et tallagio ... ivs.” For salt silver, ibid., South Newton. For liability to serve as Reeve, ibid., Paynton.
[116] Chetham Society Miscellanies, vol. iii.: “I would wish you to call the tenants first all together and to signify unto them that my father and I have gone through with Mr. Ireland for Warrington, and the summe we are to give is above £7000; and this was done making no doubt that towards it every one of them being tenants would by their assistance enable us to finish it.... If they faile in this, they may provoke us to sharp courses, especially mee, who have had a purpose to take the third part of every living as it falls.”
[117] Wrexham Free Library, Ancient Local Records, vol. ii. MS. transcript by A.N. Palmer, “Survey of the Town and Liberty of Holt.”
[118] Savine, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xix.