The name is absent

at Burnan were to issue one thousand loaves, and
one thousand raised loaves or cakes ; and the monks
themselves were to find one hundred and twenty
more of the latter¹.

Werhard gave two juga or geoc of land to Can-
terbury. The rent of one at Lambaham was forty
pensas (weys) of cheese, or an equivalent in lambs
and wool; the other, at North wood, rendered one
hundred and twenty measures, which the English
call ambers, of salt².

Lufe, in 832, charged the inheritors and assigns
of her land at Mundlingham, with the following
yearly payment to Canterbury, for ever ; that is to
say : Sixty ambers of malt, one hundred and fifty
loaves, fifty white loaves, one hundred and twenty
alms-loaves, one ox, one hog and four wethers,
two weys of bacon and cheese, one mitta of honey,
ten geese and twenty hens ³.

In 835, Abba, a reeve in Kent, charged his heirs
with a yearly payment to Folkstone, of fifty ambers
of malt, six ambers of groats (gruta 1), three weys
of bacon and cheese, four hundred loaves, one
ox, and six sheep, besides an allowance or stipend
in money to the priests ⁴. And Heregyⁱδ, his wife,

¹ Cod. Dipl. No. 226. an. 805-831. Ths sufl-loaf which I have trans-
lated raised, is I presume derived from the word wjftare, and was pro-
bably carefully leavened. We unhappily have not the Anglosaxon re-
ceipt for beer; but I presume the text implies that fifteen mittan,
whatever they were, of malt were to go to the amber. Oswulfs cha-
racter for splendid liberality will induce us to believe that he meant
the monks to have an Audit ale of their own, as well as our worthy
Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.

» Cod. Dipl. No. 220. an. 832.

³ Ibid. No. 231.                             ^j Ibid. No. 236.

furtheι∖burthened her land at Challock with pay-
ments to Canterbury, amounting to : thirty ambers
of ale, three hundred loaves, fifty of them white,
one wey of bacon and cheese, one old ox, four
wethers, and one hog, or six wethers, six geese
and ten hens, one sester of honey, one of butter,
and one of salt; and if her anniversary should fall
in winter, she added thirty wax-lights ɪ.

In 902, Bishop Denewulf leased fifteen hides of
church-land at Eblesburn to his relative Beornwulf
for forty-five shillings a year, with liberty to Beorn-
wulf^,s children to continue the lease. One shilling
(sixty of which went to the pound) is so very small
a rent for ten acres, that we must either suppose
the land to have been unusually bad, or Beomwulfs
connection with the bishop much in his favour².
He was also to aid in cyricb6t, and pay the cyric-
sceat. About the same time Denewulf leased forty
hides at Alresford to one Ælfred, at the old rent of
three pounds per annum, or four shillings and a half
per hide. He was however also to pay church-shot,
the amount of which is not stated, and to do church-
shot-work, and find men to the bishop’s reaping and
hunting ³.

Between 901-909, king Eadweard booked twenty
hides of land to Bishop Denewulf. The payments
reserved have been already mentioned : instead of
going to the king as gafol or rent, they were to
be expended in an anniversary feast on founder’s

¹ Cod Dipl. No. 235.                 ¹ Ibid. No. 1079.

⁸ Ibid. No. 1086. In both cases the rent is called gafol.

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