274 ON CERTAIN OBSCURE WORDS oves et 15 denarios In Talcarn dimid. liida terrse. Reddebat imum bovem," &c.a In the succeeding century we have a charter of Walter de Clavile granting to the priory of Canons Leigh, among other things, " decimam reddituum meorum in gablis, et in redditu molendinorum, et in redditu ovium de Hockeday^." (OUver's Monasticon Exon., p. 227. Num. II.) In the Extent of the lands of De la Pomeray, in the Testa de Nevill, f. 186, the '■' nativi operarii" (i.e. the customary tenants owing agricultural and other labour to their lord) are stated to render yearly at Hocked ay 4 sheep or 2^. In the same record, among the free tenants of the bisliopric of Exeter (libere tenentes de episcopatu) assessed to the aid levied by Henry HI. on the marriage of his sister, we find a long list of tenants rendering to the bishop money rents, sheep, aids, and various agricultural services : thus " Rogerus clericus [tenet] dim. acram et dim. ferling" pro d. etdiinid. ove et 8^* parte ovis et auxilio, ut alii." (f. 203.) " Will. Travail un. acram et ferling' pro 2s. 6d. et tm. ove et quarta parte unius ovis, et arura et seura et auxilio, ut alii." (lb.) The above, which are only two out of a long series of simi- lar entries, furnish examples of fractional sheep rendered by the bishop's tenants. Another and later rental of the see, to be noticed presently, exhibits the same feature. One of the first occasions on which I have met with the word herbiage is in the Inquisitio post mortem of Earl Ed-, mund, taken in 29 Edw. I. It is there named under several manors ; thus, under Liskerreth (Liskeard), we have, among other rents of the conventionary and villan tenants, " De ber- biagio eorundem" (i. e. conventionariorum) " et villanorum, ad Pascham, 13^ 5^" Under Tibesta, in another part of Cornwall, the libere tenentes, or freeholders, are said to render " de berbiagio ad eundem terminum S. Michaelis, 5^ ll**." The same pay- ment is made in Clymesland. In these three manors, and in that of Calstock, the berbiage rents continued to be payable by certain tenants down to a very recent period.
- Vol. i. f. 121. The Exon Domesday the true reading,
shews the rent to be annual. •■ It ^^ill. probably, be found in some of Du;rdale, wlio gives an inspeximus the ministers' accounts in the time of the charter of the Clavile grant, has misread earl himself, of which there is a remark- or misprinted the word " ovium," and sub- ably fine roll of the date of 25 Edw. I. stituted "dominii." Dr. Oliver has restored among the records of the exchequer.
