[286] Fitzherbert, Surveying, chap. xl.
[287] Commonweal of this Realm of England, p. 49. Victoria County History, Essex. I am inclined to say “almost certainly" rather than “very probably" (see below, pp. [167] and [262–263].
[288] Trans. R. H. S., New Series, vol. vi., and The Domesday of Enclosures.
[289] Roxburghe Club, Surveys of the Manors of William, First Earl of Pembroke. The manors are South Newton, Washerne, Donnington, Knyghton Estoverton and Phiphelde, Wynterbourne Basset, Byschopeston, and South Brent and Huish (the last in Somersetshire.) The manor where most is enclosed by the customary tenants is Donnington.
[290] e.g., R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf. 14, No. 70, Barton (3 & 4 Ph. and Mary): “J. Whiting ... 1 close of 7 acres by copy ... J. Whiting ... 1/2 virgate ... 1 intake of 2 acres by copy.”
[291] All Souls' Maps (survey on back of map of Salford).
[292] Ibid., Weedon Weston.
[293] Ibid., Edgeware and Kingbury. All these four instances come from the last decade of the sixteenth century.
[294] e.g. Whitecote (Salop) 40 acres, and at Wyndeferthing (Norf.) 25 acres are enclosed by the villata (see Leadam, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. vi.).
[295] Roxburghe Club, Surveys of Pembroke Manors. At Washerne nineteen out of twenty-one customary tenants held separate pieces of meadow and pasture, the largest 7-1/2 and the smallest 3-1/2 acres, but usually almost equal. At Donnyngton, twelve out of thirty-two customary tenants had pieces of land “extractum de communia.” R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Duchy of Lancaster, Bdle. 3, No. 29, Agarsley (Staffs., 1611).; here the pasture appears to have been divided up among the copyholders, but there are considerable inequalities in their shares.