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 «6o THE H1STOS? Book X. of the beft wheat that grew, if any grew, within die fee, "fix of them made of wheat purged from .the bran, and, if no wheat was rai&d upon the fee, fix loaves of the coarfbr oatmeal, equal ip breadth to the meafunc of the arm from -the elbow to the wrift, and fb thick ds not to bend though thdy were hdd by the margin X7 < The other remittance was made at the beginning of lummer, and confined of a weather throe year* old, a mafs of butter as lafge U the largeft 4i(h iti the fee and a couple of the teffer palms in thicknefi, twenty -fik-fuch loaves as were remitted before, and a xheefe compofed of all the milk that all the cows within the fee could furniih in one day ". But bolides thefe payments, both of which were fcarcely equivalent even to the remittances of the knights, the villains were neceflarily fubjeft to additional impofitiotik. The favercign in particular retained 9 confiderable portion of khds in his own poffefficoL, the appro- priated demefne of the royalty, and denominated Loghty aindng the Irifh * 9. The villains upon thefe demefhe-lands were re- quired every year to entertain the king, the queen, and fome of the great officers of ftate, with their attendant trains. But they were obliged to receive, them, only By a certain cykh cycle: or rctatioii, and to ibiintain them duly for a. certain period xo « Some were bound to entertain the king him&l£ to provide ftraw for his bed and wood for his fire, and to fumifh him with mut- ton lamb.or kid and butter cheefe or milk, as long as hexontinued with them * The royaj court was continually ambulatory and. itinerant". And the king** domefticks were jwimrclly divided into three bodies, fome of the principal officers; all the huntfc men, and all the grooms ; and each took its afligned quarters among the villains % And the fame rights of fopremacy which were poflfeffed by. the kiijg over the royal villains vfere equally poflefl[ecl by the uxjhelwyr over his 'tfwn * • But this brarieh of the villain regimen under both was a^geotte as it was determi- nate, /being conftantly fettled in proportion to the eftate of the villain *V And the fame fort of regimen was a&ufclfy retained, in the aKKteni feuds,- the tenants of ifhe lord of Manchefter in the fourteenth century being obliged to fornifb the lord's ftvora - ' . bailiff