Note E110 — 19.

Breadcorne and drinkcorn mean wheat and barley, the first being used for the making of bread, the second for malting purposes. Mr. Peacock, in his Glossary of Manley, etc., has: "Breadcorn, corn to be ground into breadmeal (i.e. flour with only a portion of the bran taken out, from which brown bread is made); not to be used for finer purposes. It is a common custom of farmers, when they engage a bailiff, to give him a certain sum of money per annum, and to allow him also his breadcorn at 40s. per quarter." Cf. Piers Plowman, C. Text, Passus ix. 61: "A boussel of bredcorne."