Note 176 — Chapter II · THE PEASANTRY

Merton Documents, “A table of the Matters, Orders, and Customs Conteyned in Severall Courts of the Manor, 1563”: “Daye given to all ye tenants of ye manor to remove and expell their undertenants by Michaelmas that shall be in ye yeare 1563, upon paine of every delinquent forfeiting 20s.” “Daye given to the aforesaid tenants having above one customary tenement to be here at ye next court to shew,” etc., as above. See the Customary of High Furness quoted below, p. 101; also Hone, The Manor and Manorial Records, pp. 177–178, Court Rolls of Payton, Oxon.: “And the aforesaid Laurence Pemerton, in his life time, substituted Walter Milleward as his subtenant ... contrary to the custom of the Manor without license; therefore let him have a talk thereon with the King’s officer before the next court.”