There is one complete copy of the customs of Ogbourne St. George in MS. Add. 28-3IV. [29-32V.], printed here (E). A partial copy of an earlier version (A) survives on the mutilated first membrane of King's College, Dd 33; the whole of the first part has been torn away.
Consuetudines de Maiori Ockeburne.
Iohannes Butery tenet unam virgatam terre unde debet singulis annis ad Hockeday quindecim denarios de gabulo bosci, et debet in qualibet operabili ebdo- mada per tres dies unam mensuram bladi triturare, scilicet a festo sancti Michaelis usque ad festum beati Petri ad Vincula, vel aliud quodcunque opus dominus voluerit facere. Et debet singulis annis in yeme quandocumque fuerit vocatus arare unam beneriam et herciare totam aruram benerie cum cibo domini; item aliam beneriam in quadragesima et habere corredium. Item debet quandocunque vocatus fuerit herciare usque ad horam nonam sine cibo, et si per totum diem herciaverit habebit corredium. Item debet ad festum sancti Martini arare tres acras et herciare sine cibo et debet circa festum sancti Iohannis Baptiste warettare tres acras pro herbagio et sine cibo. Item debet contra Natale domini unum 'quarterium brasii parare et percipere ad illud siccandum onus faraginis vel busce, et die qua siccat erit quietus de alio opere. Item omni eodem modo contra Pascha. Et si contingat quod aliquis dominus Beccum per hoc manerium itineraverit et defectum habuerit equitature vel armigeri, debet cum ipso equitare et pannos suos deferre per unam dietam, scilicet per triginta leucas et de duobus operibus interim esse quietus. Et debet propter corredium dominorum suorum ad villas mercatas 1 vicinas si opus fuerit ire et non habere corredium nisi de voluntate dominorum. Item debet lavare oves et tondere cum agnis et percipere debet una cum aliis virgatariis caseum unius diei post plenam tonsionem. Item debet sarclare per unum them usque ad horam nonam sine cibo, et si per diem integrum habebit cibum. Item debet falcare pratum domini usque ad plenam falcacionem, fena levare et cariare et habere multonem, et per totam ebdomadam falcacionis quietus esse debet de aliis operibus. Item debet a die sancti Petri ad Vincula per totum autumpnum continue cotidie metere dimidiam acram vel alia opera equivalencia loco messure facere. Item debet ad duas precaries cum tribus hominibus metere, et ipse in propria persona interesse et videre quod bene operentur, et habere semel corredium, scilicet panem integrum de frumento et cervisiam ad potandum et unum ferculum carnis vel piscis vel allec' et sero cervisiam ad potandum. Item debet per aliquos dies si opus fuerit de gracia metere cum uno homine et habere corredium. Item diebus quibus metit debet cariare tres quadri- gatas bladi et si non metit cariabit sex carettatas in die. Et si cariat tres carettatas de Wytefeld' habebit per liberacionem servientis unam garbam et eodem modo de Coucrofta et de terris ultra montem. Item si contingat quod aliqua blada restant in campis metenda ultra festum sancti Michaelis debet altero die metere vel cariare 2
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Publication Information: Book Title: Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec. Contributors: Marjorie Chibnall - author. Publisher: Royal Historical Society. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1951. Page Number: 29.
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