2. Wiltshire and Dorsetshire.
South Newton, Estoverton and Phipheld, Winterbourne Basset, Washerne, Donyngton, Byshopeston, Knyghton, Ewerne (the last in Dorsetshire, Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i. There are only three customary tenants on this manor, and only one is represented in the table, as the use made by the others of their land is not ascertainable).
3. Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire.
Salford, Weedon Weston, Wotton in Elishall, Kibworth Harcourt.
In connection with this table the following points should be noticed:—
(i) I am not certain that all the tenants represented in it are customary tenants. But with one or two exceptions the holdings of all are not larger than those of the customary tenants on other manors, so that there is no reason to suppose that their agricultural economy differed from that usually followed by the latter.
(ii) More serious, the figures are not completely accurate. I have entered under each denomination, “arable,” “meadow,” or “pasture,” land so entered by the surveyor. In some cases, however, the character of the land is not specified. E.g. it is described simply as a “close,” or a tenant is said to hold so many acres of arable “with appurtenances." Further, tenants frequently possess rights of pasture which are not expressed in terms of acres, but are either measured by the number of beasts which they may graze, or are not measured at all (e.g. “catalla sine extento"). In the latter case, which does not affect any except the Wiltshire manors, I have not attempted to form any estimate, but have simply taken their holdings as stated by the surveyor. When there is no clue to the character of the land, I have omitted it. When it is plain that the land falls under a special denomination, though this is not specified in the survey, I have placed it under that denomination in my table. E.g. at Donyngton nearly every tenant holds “unum clausum noviter extractum de communia,” and together they hold in such “closes” 132 acres. I have entered these as “pasture.”
Table VI. (p. [115–117])
1. Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire: Massingberd, Ingoldmells Court Rolls, Preface, p. vii. I quote the words of the editor, “In 1086 the annual value of the manor of Ingoldmells was £10.... In 1295 the rents of the free and bondage tenants were £51, 17s. 1d.... In 1347 the same rents were £61, 9s. 4d., and in 1421 they were £71, 10s. 3d.... But in 1485 £3, 7s. 4d. had to be deducted for lost rents ... from a total of £72, 6s. 8d.... When the manor was sold in 1628 by Charles I., the reserved rent ... was only £73, 17s. 2d.... It is therefore clear that at Ingoldmells the tenants appropriated virtually the whole of the increase in the value of the land.”
2. Crondall, Hampshire: Baigent, Crondal Records, Part I., pp. 135 and 383.