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The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)Seebohm, Frederic

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The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

Name: The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)
Author: Seebohm, Frederic

Seebohm, Frederic

Village communities -- Great Britain

John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre above _le Brodelitellonde_. John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre above _Overlitellonde_.     John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre above _Medeforlong_.        John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _le Thorn_.              John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Hoggestonforde_.        John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre above _Eldeleyes_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre above _Cokwell_.            John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Brodefarnham_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Langefarnham_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre above _Farnhamshide_.      Henry Boveton and Richard Atte Halle.
 ½ acre at _Howeshamme_.           John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Stonysticch_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Coppedemore_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Brerebuttes_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Wodeforlonge_.         John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Porteweye_.            John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Litebenhulle_.         Henry Boveton and Matthew atte Lane.
 ½ acre at _Michilblakegrove_.     John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Litelblakegrove_.      John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Brodereten_.           John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Brodeliteldon_.        John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Stoteford_.            John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre at _Brodelangelonde_.      John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre above _Litelbelesden_.     John Watekyns and John Mayn.
 ½ acre in _Anamaneslonde_.        John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Litelpeisaere_.        John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 1 rood in _le Trendel_.           John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Merslade_.             John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Merslade_.             John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre at _Brodelitellonde_.       John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre below _le Knolle_.          John Watekyns and Henry Warde.
 ½ acre above _le Brodealdemede_.   John Watekyns and John Mayn.

«Summary of the contents of a virgate or yard-land.»

Thus the virgate or yard-land of John Moldeson was composed of a
messuage and

 68 half-acre strips of arable land,
  3 rood strips of arable land,
  2 doles,
  1 acre of pasture,
  3 half-acres of pasture, and
  1 half-acre of meadow,

scattered all over the open fields in their various furlongs.

 [Illustration: A NORMAL VIRGATE OR YARDLAND.

 The normal holding of the villanus, consisting of a
 messuage and 30 scattered acres coloured red, by way of
 example on the Map of the open fields of Hitchen.]

«Rotation in the order of the strips.»

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The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

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