"A bold Peasantry, their Country's Pride"--Serfdom--Were and
Wergild--Operative Tenants--Rent paid in
Labour--Monday-men--Villeins--Stocks for Vagrants and unruly
Servants--Services of Tillage--Ploughing Boon--Harrowing and
Bed-weeding--Threshing, Thatching, Delving,
&c.--Inclosures--Malting for the Lord--Malt-silver--Ancient
Harvest--Reaping Boon--Hayward--Love-boons or Law-days--Autumnal
Precations, _temp._ Edward II.--Ram Feast--Beltane
Superstition--Hayfield cut and cleared--Mutton Rewards--Hock-day
Court and Sports--Hardicanute's Death--Scot Ales--Sheep Shearing
and Clipping-time Customs--Conveyance Service--Arriage and
Carriage--Farming a Castle or Monastery--Vraic in the Channel
Islands--Langerode--Watch and Ward--The Beadle--Sleeping in
Church--"Firm Locks make faithful Servants" 217-234
Olden Housemarks: Land, Cattle, Sheep, Swans, and Ducks; Houses
and Cottages--Merchants' and Tradesmen's Marks--Picture
Marks--Ancient Conveyancing 235-237