A Short History of English Agriculture. W. H. R. Curtler
Читать онлайн книгу.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. | EXPENSES. | |||||||
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Fixed rents | 18 | 3 | 73/4 | Rents paid and allowed | 0 | 3 | 21/2 | |
Farm of market | 0 | 2 | 6 | Ploughs and carts | 2 | 17 | 4 | |
Chevage[67] | 0 | 8 | 6 | Buildings and walls | 4 | 5 | 101/2 | |
Foldage | 0 | 3 | 91/2 | Small necessaries | 0 | 7 | 103/4 | |
Sale of works | 5 | 13 | 23/4 | Dairy | 0 | 4 | 31/4 | |
Herbage | 1 | 0 | 4 | Threshing | 1 | 15 | 51/2 | |
Hay | 2 | 12 | 11 | Meadow and autumn expenses | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
Turf, &c. | 1 | 13 | 61/2 | Stock | 0 | 16 | 7 | |
Underwood | 5 | 10 | 2 | Bailiff | 1 | 19 | 0 | |
Grain | 61 | 12 | 31/4 | Steward | 1 | 6 | 9 1/2 | |
Cider | 1 | 1 | 11 1/4 | Grain | 8 | 2 | 4 1/2 | |
Stock | 5 | 3 | 0 | Expenses of acct. | 1 | 0 | 81/2 | |
Dairy | 4 | 3 | 03/4 | |||||
Pleas | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Tallage | 16 | 13 | 4 | |||||
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£128 | 2 | 23/4 | £23 | 0 | 93/4 |
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