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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and harvest boons. In 1319 two villeins were paying chevage to live elsewhere. At that period the arable around …
A History of the County of Somerset
… customary tenants, and 4 cottagers, works worth 6 d., and chevage worth 3 d. 105 William Nethway's share of Huish manor …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 141 and 1329. 142 Perquisites of court included payment of chevage in 1492, 143 and a manumission was granted in 1450. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the manorial year 13489; 11 of the 17 villeins owing chevage died, and 9 half-virgates and 7 cottages were still … among them flight of villeins and a great increase in chevage payments. 240 In 1523 48 persons were assessed for …
A History of the County of Somerset
… farm of the dovecot, timber sales, occasional levies of chevage, and perquisites of court. For most of the century … a. was Thomas Tailor alias Gregory, described as a neif. Chevage and marriage fines were regularly levied up to 14612 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… might be relaxed but, in general, was strictly enforced. Chevage, the annual fine paid by a villein living outside the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1251 5 villeins had left the manor and were paying chevage, and the lord's servants received part of their wages …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 'charnag' or 'chiarnag'. Very few works were commuted and chevage was paid both in cash and in blooms of iron. 88 The … repairs and renewals of buildings and with the levy of chevage. Both homages were fined in 1448 for 'chattering and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and 'Scotmust'. Two tenants paid rents in wax and chevage of boys was worth 5 s. 6 d. The demesne then included …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1353 from Glastonbury. 163 There was an increase in chevage payers from 42 in 1299 to 78 in 1348. 164 In 1355 the …