fordlota

fordlota [cf. ME fordlot] , customary payment to ploughmen on Plough Monday. Cf. Eng. in Manorial Docs. 49. 1279 in forleta caruc’ post Natale iiij d. MinAc 935/6 (cf. ib. 935/7: 1280 dat’ carucariis ad primum exitum carucarum post Natale iiij d.); 1290 in consuetudine famulorum pro eorum forlot’ Ib. 935/12 (cf. ib. 935/15: 1303 : pro eorum forthlot’; ib. 935/36: 1360 pro eorum fortlot’).