[377] _Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Gloucestriæ_, vol. iii. App., pp. 291-295.
[378] Roxburghe Club, _Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke_.
[380] R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Portf. 13, No. 34.
[381] R.O. _Land Rev. Misc. Bks._, vol. clxxxv., ff. 70-74.
[382] R.O. _Misc. Bks. Treas. of Receipts_, vol. clxiii., ff. 187.
[383] R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Roll 478, No. 3.
[384] Davenport, _History of a Norfolk Manor_.
[385] Scrope, _History of Manor and Barony of Castle Combe_, p. 208.
[386] Vinogradoff, _The Growth of the Manor_, note to chap. ii., Book III., p. 370, and his quotations from Maitland: "The villains of Bright Waltham ... constituted a community which held land, which was capable of receiving a grant of land, which could contract with the lord, which could make exchange with the lord."
[387] Roxburghe Club, _Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke_.
[388] Roxburghe Club, _Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke_.
[389] R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf. 12, No. 52, p. 10 d.
[390] See the map of part of Salford, p. 163, and compare R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf. 27, No. 32 (Lavenham in Suffolk): "Of Township of Tuddenham Free land foldcourse, 6s. 9d." _Ibid._, Portf. 13, No 21 (Colly Weston in Northants): "The inhabitants for bushy ground paying two years 11s. Item, in every third year they pay nothing." At Wymondham (R.O. _Aug. Off. Misc. Bks._, vol. ccclx., f. 91) one finds under the heading "Towne lands" 38 acres held by copy by the "feoffees of the Vill of Wymondham" (37 Eliz.) in Trust for the school.
[391] See references quoted below, pp. 244-253.
[392] _e.g._ Scrope, _History of Manor and Barony of Castle Combe_, p. 203. Extent of Manor, 1454: "Et notandum quod prædictae terræ dominicates cum pratis et pasturis supra specificatis dimittebantur ad firmam Ricardo Hallewey, Edwardo Yonge, Johanni Costyn, Willelmo Gaudeby, et Edwardo Noorth, ea intentione quod ipsi dimitterent ad firmam omnibus tenentibus domini aliquas portiones dictorum terrarum secundum magis et minus pro earum cultura, et reddunt pro firma inter se cxiiis. viiid."
[393] R.O. _Land Revenue Misc. Bks._, vol. ccxxi., fol. 1. Survey of Manor of Brigstock (Northants) 4, James I. Here the demesne is held by twenty-two tenants, each having 8 acres, 3 roods, and 1 acre of meadow. Mickleholme meadow (also demesne land) is held by five tenants, each having 1 acre. One finds on some Northumberland manors a growth in the size of customary holdings combined with the preservation of almost exact equality between them, which surely must be taken as proving that the increase in the area held grew, not by sporadic encroachments on the part of individuals, but by definite allotment on some communal plan. Thus at Birling there were in 1248 ten "bondi," each holding 30 acres or one husbandland; in 1498 nine holding 30 acres or one husbandland, and four holding one husbandland of 30 acres between them; in 1567 ten customary tenants, each holding 33 acres; in 1616 the average holding has risen from 33 to 42-1/2 acres, but there is still substantial equality, the largest holding amounting to 44 acres, 3 roods, 3-1/2 poles, and the smallest to 40 acres, 0 roods, 33 poles (I omit the facts as to the cottagers). In spite of two considerable additions to the land of the village, there is little change in the relative proportions of the tenancies. At Acklington there were in 1352 thirty-five bondage holdings of 16 acres each, of which nine were vacant (presumably on account of the plague). In 1368 these nine vacant holdings were let to the other tenants for herbage. In 1498 there were eighteen tenants, of whom seventeen held two husbandlands apiece (_i.e._ 32 acres) and one, one husbandland (_i.e._ 16 acres). _Northumberland County History_, vol. v.