enty inhabitants.[65]

On most manors, as in Forncett,[66] which contained about 2,700 acres,
from the preponderance of arable, the chief source of income to the
lord was from the grain crops; other sources may be seen from the
following table of the lord's receipts and expenses in 1272-3:

RECEIPTS.
L s. d.
Fixed rents 18 3 7-3/4
Farm of market 0 2 6
Chevage[67] 0 8 6
Foldage 0 3 9-1/2
Sale of works 5 13 2-3/4
Herbage 1 0 4
Hay 2 12 11
Turf, &c. 1 13 6-1/2
Underwood 5 10 2
Grain 61 12 3-1/4
Cider 1 1 11-1/4
Stock 5 3 0
Dairy 4 3 0-3/4
Pleas 14 0 0
Tallage 16 13 4
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L128 2 2-3/4

EXPENSES.
L s. d.

Rents paid and allowed 0 3 2-1/2
Ploughs and carts 2 17 4
Buildings and walls 4 5 10-1/2
Small necessaries 0 7 10-3/4
Dairy 0 4 3-1/4
Threshing 1 15 5-1/2
Meadow and autumn expenses 0 1 4
Stock 0 16 7
Bailiff 1 19 0
Steward 1 6 9-1/2
Grain 8 2 4-1/2
Expenses of acct. 1 0 8-1/2
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L23 0 9-3/4

The manor was almost entirely self-sufficing; of necessity, for towns
were few and distant, and the roads to them bad. Each would have its
smith, millwright, thatcher, &c., paid generally in kind for their
services. There was little trade with the outside world, except for
salt--an invaluable article when meat had to be salted down every
autumn for winter use, since there were no roots to keep the cattle
on--and iron for some of the implements. Nearly everything was made in
the village.

The mediaeval system of tillage was compulsory; even the freeholders
could not manage their plots as they wished, because all the soil of
the township formed one whol