The Millers

The house in the books

• 1 May 1354 May Day: the young ones were up before dawn bringing in the may from the woods, and Maud Miller was Queen of the May. There was dancing on the green all afternoon.
• 20 April 1354 Peter Miller and Stephen Brewer made a loveday, Adam Brewer standing between them, and drank on it. Stephen paid 2d for the lord's licence to agree, and Peter's plea was withdrawn.
• 8 April 1354 The manor court sat in the hall. Before it: Thomas atte Well asks the lord about rent for the empty holding by the mere; Alan Shepherd asks the lord about meadow ground for hay; Thomas atte Well against Roger Warrener, a pig in the garden; Peter Miller against Stephen Brewer, a furrow over the mere. The steward has put it all to the lord.
• 4 March 1354 Joan of Stanton, a pilgrim keeping a vow made on a sickbed, walking barefoot to St Thomas, came in from the road and slept by the Millers's hearth.
• 27 February 1354 By the lord's ruling: Thomas atte Well was amerced 6d for snaring in the lord's warren a second time, and lost the snares; Peter Miller and Stephen Brewer stood pledge for his good behavior.
• 2 October 1353 By the lord's ruling: Henry Cooper and Peter Miller and Elena Smith were amerced 11s 1d in all for taking excess wages against the Statute; it goes toward the next subsidy.
• 1 October 1353 The manor court sat in the hall. Before it: Adam Brewer and Henry Cooper, taken in the lord's wood by night; the ale-tasters' presentments; Henry Cooper and Peter Miller and Elena Smith, for taking excess wages. The steward has put it all to the lord.
• 1 October 1353 At the manor court Roger Warrener and Peter Miller were chosen ale-tasters for the year, and Thomas atte Well hayward, and Henry Cooper reeve.
• 29 September 1353 Peter Miller saw the steward about the mill lease terms; the old terms stand for another year.
• 30 August 1353 Peter Miller helped the Brewers with their harvest.
• 20 August 1353 By the steward, at the manor court: Peter Miller was amerced 3d for snaring in the lord's warren.
• 30 July 1353 The manor court sat in the hall. Before it: Peter Miller, taken in the lord's wood by night; the ale-tasters' presentments; Stephen Brewer against Thomas atte Well, beasts in the corn; Henry Cooper against Stephen Brewer, a pig in the garden. The steward has put it all to the lord.
• 24 July 1353 Maud Miller is in bed with a fever.
• 13 July 1353 Roger Warrener, the lord's warrener, came on Peter Miller at the warren before light, with three coneys out of the lord's warren. He must answer for it at the manor court.
• 9 July 1353 At the manor court Henry Cooper and Peter Miller were chosen ale-tasters for the year, and Thomas atte Well hayward.
• 1 May 1353 May Day: the young ones were up before dawn bringing in the may from the woods, and Maud Miller was Queen of the May. There was dancing on the green all afternoon.
• 7 January 1353 Plough Monday: Stephen Brewer, Adam Brewer, Thomas atte Well, Henry Cooper and Peter Miller dragged a plough round the houses and collected 6d for the plough-light in church.
• 21 October 1352 Peter Miller came from Westcott with his wife Juliana and a daughter, Maud, and took up the lease of the mill.