[52] Ibid. p. 312. Perhaps one of the most interesting features of the smaller manors is that they were constantly being swallowed up by the larger.
[53] As some of the common pasture was held in severalty, this may perhaps have been mown in scarce years. Walter of Henley mentions mowing the waste, see below, p. 34.
[54] Maitland, Domesday Book, 436; Board of Agriculture Returns, 1907.
[55] Vinogradoff, English Society in the Eleventh Century, p. 310; Birch, Domesday, p. 183.
[56] Maitland, Domesday Book. 44; Cunningham, Growth of Industry and Commerce, i. 171; Domesday of S. Paul, pp. xliii. and xci.
[57] Cullum, History of Hawsted, p. 181.
[58] Rolls Series, ii. 220. According to this, the price of a bushel of wheat reckoned in modern money was £3 in that year
[59] Ibid. iii. 220.
[60] Holinshed, who is supported by William of Malmesbury in the assertion that in time of scarcity England imported corn. Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., v. 673.
[61] Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life, p. 79.