[126] For the sources from which this table is constructed, and its defects, see [Appendix II.].
[127] On three small manors I have included some tenants who may possibly be freeholders or leaseholders.
[128] Merton Documents, Rentale de Cuxham (Nos. 5902 and 5905).
[129] Merton Documents, Rentale de Ibston (No. 5902).
[130] R.O. Rental and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf. 19, No. 7, f. 79–87.
[131] R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf. 14, No. 70.
[132] Roxburghe Club, Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke.
[133] Ibid.
[134] The inconvenience of reckoning in yardlands is noticed by a writer in the seventeenth century: “The tax of land is after the yardland; a name very deceitful by the disproportion and inequality thereof, the quantity of some one yardland being as much as one and a halfe or two in the same field, and yet there is an equality of taxes” (Joseph Lee, A Vindication of a Regulated Enclosure, 1656).
[135] Merton Documents, MS. book labelled Kibworth and Barkby, 1636.