Services for 1 virgate of land on estate of Templars at Guiting (Gloucestershire) in 1185:
Each virgate of land which owes services must work with one man for two days in each week from the feast of St. Martin (11 November) till the time of haymaking, and then they will mow for four days a week as long as there are meadows to be mown and hay to be carried. If they shall have been mown and the hay carried before the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (1 August), they shall return to working two days a week until St. Peter ad Vincula, and after the feast of St. Peter for four days a week, unless the corn crops are so forward that they can reap them, and if they can reap them, then on Monday they must work with two men and on Tuesday with one man and on Wednesday with two men and on Thursday with one man until the corn is carried, and when the corn has been carried, four days a week until the feat of St. Martin. Further, each virgate which renders work must plough as a boon work (de bene) an acre and three-quarters, and thrash the seed corn, and sow the land and harrow it for the winter sowing; and, if the master wishes it, carry loads to Gloucester or wherever he wills. Each team must also plough two acres of pasture. All the labourers must also make a load of malt against Christmas, and similarly against Easter, and for drying the malt, they must get one load of wood; the said labourers must also move the sheep-fold twice in the year, and they must spend two days in washing and shearing the sheep.
(A.L. Poole, Obligations of Society in the XII and XIII Centuries, p.16)
Agreement in 1207 between Thomas de Viville and the monks of Jumièges:
The abbot shall have the milling rights for all of Thomas' land. If a man of Thomas' land should go to another mill, the abbot's miller shall carry out through Thomas' servant the same justice as he would carry out on the abbot's land. ... If hand mills should be found on Thomas' land, they shall be broken up, except one for the sick. If a merchant of Thomas' land come from anywhere with wheat or grain and should want to eat or do anything else in his home and then depart immediately, he shall be permitted to do so. If he should stay one night or bring his goods under his roof or over the threshold of his home, he shall owe milling rights.
(Grand Cartulaire de Jumièges, no.218; quoted by Bloch, "Advent and Triumph, 163-4, n. 32)