[134.] It will be remembered that Lammas land is divided into strips for the hay crop. In the Winslow Rolls, in the list of strips included in the virgate of John Moldeson were some strips or doles of meadow—hence dǽl and gedál-land. That gedal-land = open fields divided into strips, see Hist. Abingdon (p. 304), where there is a charter, A.D. 961, making a grant of '9 mansas' and 'thas nigon hida lieggead on gemang othran gedal-lande, feldes gemane and mæda gemane and yrthland gemane.'
[135.] Vol. i. pp. 349–352.
[136.] So also see Codex Diplomaticus, dii. and dxvi., and cccclxvii. and cccxxxv.
[137.] Vol. i. p. 384. Compare also the boundaries of Draitune, 'æcer under æcer,' p. 248. Also the same expression, pp. 350 and 353.
[138.] See, with regard to this donation, Kemble's Saxons in England, c. x.; and Stubbs' Const. Hist. i. pp. 262–71.
[139.] Thorpe, p. 328. 'Item—Ut unicuique æcclesiæ vel una mausa integra absque alio servitio adtribuatur, et presbiteri in eis constituti non de decimis, neque de oblationibus fidelium, nec de domibus, neque de atriis vel ortis juxta æcclesiam positis, neque de præscripta mansa, aliquod servitium faciant præter æcclesiasticum; et si aliquid amplius habuerint, inde senioribus suis secundum patriæ morem, debitum servitium impendant.'
[140.] See especially the Survey Middlesex, and supra pp. 92–95.
[141.] Thorpe, p. 146.
[142.] Thorpe, p. 146.
[143.] Ibid. p. 144. So also in the Laws of Cnut, 'The tenth acre as the plough traverses it.' Thorpe, p. 156.