SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2153

[Devra at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/00 11:42:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:

>  Smallest eggs 
>  to the Lord? On what basis do you make this assumption?
> 
Dear Lord Ras,

I think that the previous poster was basing the idea on human nature, and 
man's desire to get the best bargain possible.  In college, when we read some 
of the feudal contacts, they said things like "John the Joiner will give 10 
dozen eggs at Easter, the loan of a cart, three bundles of hay.."  Now, it 
seems very sensible to me that, if your contract specifies the number of eggs 
to be given, but not whether they must be a particular weight or size, that 
you would tend to give the least you could get away with--i.e. the smallest 
eggs.  In the matter of Heriot? (where the lord takes a beast when the 
original tenant dies, and the new one inherits) I believe that it is 
specified that it should be "the best beast"... 8-} grin
Devra the baker
Devra Langsam
www.poisonpenpress.com
devra at aol.com