[1612/10/12]¹

An act regarding timeous teinding for the ease of the labourers of the ground

It is statute and ordained by our sovereign lord and estates in parliament that in time coming in all teinding of corns that the same be teinded at three several times every year if the owners of the corns shall think it expedient, namely: the croft infield corn at one time, the barley at another time and the outfield corn at the third time; and declare that eight days after the complete shearing of each sort of corns being outrun, that it shall be permissible to the owners at the said eight days' end to make requisition upon other eight days to make them thankful teinding; and if the owners get not thankful teinding at the expiring of the said last eight days, the said estates declare that it shall be lawful to the owners of the said corns to teind and stack the same themselves, according to the act of parliament made of before regarding the teinding of corns in all points, and shall incur no danger through that.