 The lord had to look narrowly after the morals and marriages of the daughters of his farmers.A case of female incontinence was punished by a fine called " 'Legrewite' " or " 'Leyr-wite' " [From leyr derives 'lair'.l< OE leger= lying (down), a bed + wite = a fine]  , and the birth of an illegitimate child was followed by another called " 'childwite' ", which in one of the manors of Bury Monastery was fixed at 2s.