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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
they held all thefe lands free of the king or of any feudal lord
whatever; had all the rights of thief-taking and hanging when
taken, of holding and letting lands by common foccage, of
exercifing all rights of water -as well as of land ; rights of fifh
and foreft, of levying toll at their mills, and of compelling
every one in their vicinity to grind at their mills. On the
manor of Glaftonbury alone there were four mills—a water
mill, a wind-mill, a horfe-mill, and a fulling-mill. Still more,
they had the right of compelling the tenants to do their team-
work, to draw their fuel and other neceflaries, and to do their
ploughing and fowing and harvefting at a certain price. More-
over certain tenants were bound to do what was called lund-
mary, or Monday-work, and were called Mondaymen. They
were bound every year, fummer and winter, to work forty
days for the lord abbot for fix hours a-day, at whatever work
and where he chofe, and not when they chofe, at an obolus or
halfpenny a-day, amounting each man to twenty-pence the
year. “ Opera cuftumariorum tenentium Domini ibidem,
vocata Moundayewarkes, facfta et facienda per diverfos tenentes,
vocatos Mondaymen; videlicet quod quilibet eorum, ex antiqua
confuetudine, annuatim per quadraginta dies, per miniftros
Domini eis affignatos et limitatos, ad placitum Domini, et non
ad libitum tenentium, operabitur quadraginta dies yemales et
aeftivales, qualibet die inde operando et bene laborando per fex
horas integras cujuslibet diei eis aflignati, capiendo quilibet
eorum, quando fie operatur, obolum, cujus fumma eft xx<7. per
annum.”
Some alfo worked eight days during the autumn, having, no
doubt during the harveft, a penny a-day. The cuftoms varied
in other manors ; in fome, all tenants without exception work-
ing at the call of the lord abbot, for more or lefs days,
and in default paying a fixed fine. Befides thefe, there
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
they held all thefe lands free of the king or of any feudal lord
whatever; had all the rights of thief-taking and hanging when
taken, of holding and letting lands by common foccage, of
exercifing all rights of water -as well as of land ; rights of fifh
and foreft, of levying toll at their mills, and of compelling
every one in their vicinity to grind at their mills. On the
manor of Glaftonbury alone there were four mills—a water
mill, a wind-mill, a horfe-mill, and a fulling-mill. Still more,
they had the right of compelling the tenants to do their team-
work, to draw their fuel and other neceflaries, and to do their
ploughing and fowing and harvefting at a certain price. More-
over certain tenants were bound to do what was called lund-
mary, or Monday-work, and were called Mondaymen. They
were bound every year, fummer and winter, to work forty
days for the lord abbot for fix hours a-day, at whatever work
and where he chofe, and not when they chofe, at an obolus or
halfpenny a-day, amounting each man to twenty-pence the
year. “ Opera cuftumariorum tenentium Domini ibidem,
vocata Moundayewarkes, facfta et facienda per diverfos tenentes,
vocatos Mondaymen; videlicet quod quilibet eorum, ex antiqua
confuetudine, annuatim per quadraginta dies, per miniftros
Domini eis affignatos et limitatos, ad placitum Domini, et non
ad libitum tenentium, operabitur quadraginta dies yemales et
aeftivales, qualibet die inde operando et bene laborando per fex
horas integras cujuslibet diei eis aflignati, capiendo quilibet
eorum, quando fie operatur, obolum, cujus fumma eft xx<7. per
annum.”
Some alfo worked eight days during the autumn, having, no
doubt during the harveft, a penny a-day. The cuftoms varied
in other manors ; in fome, all tenants without exception work-
ing at the call of the lord abbot, for more or lefs days,
and in default paying a fixed fine. Befides thefe, there