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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… three manors in 1086 there were altogether 24 bordars, 19 cottars, 12 villani, and 2 servi; the proportion of bordars and cottars was well above average for the county and probably … serviwere recorded; they had between them 2 villaniand 7 cottars and bordars, with only one team. 65A grant c. 1200 of …
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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… c.1248, and in 1279 there were 10 serfs ( servi) and 11 cottars, suggesting a total population of 80100. 18 Seven … held yardland (8 a.) for standardized services, and eleven cottars held crofts. 3 Serfs were allowed common pasture for … serfs (or servi), with holdings measured in yardlands, and cottars, who held smallholdings called crofts. Both types of …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… September their weekly duty increased to two days, four cottars owed a day's work a week, and another cottar was … that increased during August and September and three cottars owed autumn services as well as cash rents. One …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… them, 76 14 customary tenants with 16 virgates, and 7 cottars 77 with about 27 acres. The customary tenants each … were now 15 customary tenants holding 17 virgates, with 12 cottars holding much the same amount as before. But whereas … often of only a few acres, 3 held as customary tenants or cottars or both, and 2 other customary tenants held as …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paying 38 pence, and 18 serfs and 4 swine-herds and 2 cottars. The whole (manor) pays 23 pounds of white silver … ploughs. In demesne there are 1 plough and 3 serfs and 3 cottars, and (there are) 16 villeins and 7 bordars with 9 … 2 serfs, and (there are) 2 villeins and 8 bordars and 8 cottars. It was and is worth 40 shillings. 'The abbot has …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 6 serfs and (there are) 5 villeins and 6 bordars 'and 2 cottars' with 1 ploughs. 'There are 1 riding-horse and 5 … In demesne are '5 hides and' 3 ploughs and 2 serfs and 3 cottars and (there are) 12 villeins and 17 bordars with 7 … In demesne are '2 hides and 1 virgates and' 1 plough and 8 cottars with 1 villein and 5 bordars with 1 plough 'and half …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 10 held 10 virgates, 21 half-virgates and 4 tofts; 16 were cottars. There were 16 villein virgaters in North Weston. No … to keep the lord's cows and his sheep, and one of the cottars was the lord's gardener and was quit of the services which the other cottars owed. Another virgater was not liable for week-work, …