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)

by Frederic Seebohm

[144.] Ibid. p. 111.

[145.] D. i. 38b. Wallope (Hants). 'Ibi æcclesia cui pertinet una hida et medietas decimæ manerii et totum Cirset, et de decima villanorum XLVI. denarii et medietas agrorum.'

'Ibi est adhuc æcclesiola, ad quam pertinent viii. acræ de decima.'

[146.] (5) The breadth of a boundary (fin) between two trevs, if it be of land, is a fathom and a half. . . .

(7) Between two erws, two furrows (Ancient Laws, &c., of Wales, p. 373). 'The boundary (tervyn) between two erws, two furrows, and that is called a balk (synach).' (P. 525.)

[147.] Ancient Laws: Venedotian Code, pp. 81 and 90. Leges Wallicæ, p. 831.

[148.] Ancient Laws, p. 263 (Dimetian Code); p. 374 (Gwentian Code).

[149.] Ancient Laws, p. 153. (Venedotian Code.)

XXIV. Of Co-tillage this treats.

1. Whoever shall engage in co-tillage with another, it is right for them to give surety for performance, and mutually join hands; and, after they have done that, to keep it until the tye be completed: the tye is twelve erws.