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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
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were by ancient cuftom other men who worked on the moors,
called Moormen or Chalengelondmen, who cut down, carried,
ftacked, and cut up for ufe, wood for the lord’s fires, working
at this eleven days each year, at a penny a-day. Thefe moor-
men, or Chalengelondmen, had to clear the water-courfes and
mend and make walls for fences; others drefled the vineyards,
for they had fuch then, and grew the vegetables on the fame
terms, and drew the wine and other provifions to the abbey by
wagon or in boats.
To the abbey belonged vaft parks for deer and other animals.
The parks of Wyralle and Sherpehame are particularly men-
tioned, as well as the vineyard of Wyralle. This park, it
fays, contains three hundred and twenty-two acres; “ in which
park” the lord abbot Richard had newly eredted an exceedingly
beautiful manor-houfe, with chapel, eating-rooms, chambers,
butteries, kitchen, and adorned with all other neceflary apart-
ments ; the front of the manor being enclofed by ftone walls,
and the reft by fawn oak pales. To which adjoined an
orchard, ftews for fifh, etc. In this park, three hundred deer,
and forty larger animals might be maintained, and hawking
could annually be purfued in the furrounding meadows of one
hundred and fifty-two acres.
There was alfo in this manor a moor called Hultemoor, of
two hundred and feventy-three acres ; another moor, Heth-
moor, or the heathery moor, of eight hundred acres ; a third
moor, Southmoor or Allermoor, that is Aldermoor, of one
thoufand one hundred and forty acres, which was formerly
incapable of being hunted, from the thicknefs of the alder-
trees, but was then grazed by the tenants, and furnifhed fuel
for the monaftery; and a fourth moor, of' four hundred and
thirty acres, called Kynnyard Moor. In this one manor,
therefore, there were park and moorlands for chafe, grazing,
and fuel, to the amount of nearly three thoufand acres. In
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were by ancient cuftom other men who worked on the moors,
called Moormen or Chalengelondmen, who cut down, carried,
ftacked, and cut up for ufe, wood for the lord’s fires, working
at this eleven days each year, at a penny a-day. Thefe moor-
men, or Chalengelondmen, had to clear the water-courfes and
mend and make walls for fences; others drefled the vineyards,
for they had fuch then, and grew the vegetables on the fame
terms, and drew the wine and other provifions to the abbey by
wagon or in boats.
To the abbey belonged vaft parks for deer and other animals.
The parks of Wyralle and Sherpehame are particularly men-
tioned, as well as the vineyard of Wyralle. This park, it
fays, contains three hundred and twenty-two acres; “ in which
park” the lord abbot Richard had newly eredted an exceedingly
beautiful manor-houfe, with chapel, eating-rooms, chambers,
butteries, kitchen, and adorned with all other neceflary apart-
ments ; the front of the manor being enclofed by ftone walls,
and the reft by fawn oak pales. To which adjoined an
orchard, ftews for fifh, etc. In this park, three hundred deer,
and forty larger animals might be maintained, and hawking
could annually be purfued in the furrounding meadows of one
hundred and fifty-two acres.
There was alfo in this manor a moor called Hultemoor, of
two hundred and feventy-three acres ; another moor, Heth-
moor, or the heathery moor, of eight hundred acres ; a third
moor, Southmoor or Allermoor, that is Aldermoor, of one
thoufand one hundred and forty acres, which was formerly
incapable of being hunted, from the thicknefs of the alder-
trees, but was then grazed by the tenants, and furnifhed fuel
for the monaftery; and a fourth moor, of' four hundred and
thirty acres, called Kynnyard Moor. In this one manor,
therefore, there were park and moorlands for chafe, grazing,
and fuel, to the amount of nearly three thoufand acres. In