(A)
H. S. Bennett, Life on the English Manor (1937)
Heriot was claimed by the
lord of the manor on the death of one of his tenants... After the
lord had chosen the best animal as his heriot, the Church had second
choice. The Church forbade the taking of mortuary unless there were
at least three animals. This, however, was rigorous enough, since
after the lord had taken one, and the Church taken another, the widow
or heir was often left with a solitary remainder.
1. Look at Yalding
Labour Service and Yalding Rents.
Fill in details in your Family
Information Chart (section
2) of how much you pay in rent
or in labour service for the land that you use. Are you a serf or
a free person?
2.
Look at Heriot Records and Mortuary
Records. Fill in details in your Family
Information Chart (section
8) of what you had to give to obtain your
land.
3.
Read source A and look again at the Heriot
Records and Mortuary Records.
Explain why the lord of the manor and the church did not always take
animals in 1330 and 1331.
4. Hugh de Audley took
a tunic from the Browne family when William died in 1331. Why
did he do this? Would he have used William Browne's tunic?
5.
Look at Tallage Payment and Lay
Subsidy List. Fill in details in your Family
Information Chart (section
10) of how much tax you paid
in 1336.
6. Copy this table into
your book. Look again at the worksheet Feudal
Rent and Taxes.
Fill in the empty
columns.
| Labour
Service
|
|
| Heriot |
|
| Mortuary |
|
| Merchet |
|
| Tallage |
A
tax paid annually by the serfs to the lord of the manor. |
| Tallage |
|
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