A Short History of English Agriculture. W. H. R. Curtler

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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
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


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