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A History of the County of York East Riding
… maltmaking, and by rendering hens at Christmas and merchet and tallage. Thirteen or fourteen cottars occupied …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… mowing in hay time, and four days' work in harvest, and merchet, and heriot, and general aid when it is called for in …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… and shall pay the thirteenth part multure, and shall give merchet and heriet and metrich 48 and aid, when an aid is …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… from free tenants, sokemen and cottars. 81 Leyrwyte and merchet are mentioned and the tenure of borough english is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with 10 a. each. Each villein owed gersums, heriots, and merchet, and had to serve as reeve if ordered, but their …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… and carting of food and venison, and giving heriot and merchet. Later the Crown leased the services of the … year, but permitted the men to discontinue the payment of merchet and heriot; he continued, however, to tallage them …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… year, rendering a loaf and 2 hens at Christmas and paying merchet. Thirteen acres, perhaps a half-yardland, was the … 1 d. for mowing, and food renders at Christmas, and paid merchet and tallage at their lord's will. By 1279 their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freeholder in Murcott. All the half-virgaters owed heriot, merchet, and tallage. Most of them paid 4 s. 6 d. a year, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and half straw, for one of the bishop's horses. He owed merchet, heriot, leirwite, a fine on his father's death, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were unfree, holding in all about 31 virgates. All paid merchet, heriot, leirwite, an entry fine for their land, and …