| Description | Lying just south west of Ashford, Great Chart was being accounted for by a serjeant in 1272 with the format of receipts and expenses on the recto and corn and stock on the dorse already established. In 1351, a bedel takes over accounting for the rents and the two accounts are sewn together head to foot. By 1382, the bedel accounts alone through to 1456, though the content of his account scarcely alters. Very occasionally, a cursory account of a farmer has survived from 1413. Throughout, the offices of serjeant and bedel are occupied by the same people for long stretches. |