[301] For references to the discussion on this point, see below, p. 244.
[302] Davenport, History of a Norfolk Manor, p. 80.
[303] Scrope, History of the Manor and Barony of Castle Combe, p. 236.
[304] Massingberd, Ingoldmells Court Rolls, p. 276.
[305] M.D. Harris, Coventry Leet Book, vol. ii., pp. 445, 456, 510, and elsewhere.
[306] Hearnshaw, Court Leet Records of Southampton, passim, e.g. 1551: “Thomas Betts and Thomas Fuller continue to oppress the common with sheep, therefore they are fined 8s. each" (p. 21).
[307] e.g. The Commonweal of this Realm of England, p. 56: “And weare it not that oure grounde lieth in the common fieldes, intermingled one with another, I thincke also oure fieldes had been inclosed, of a common agreement of all the townshippe, longe ere this time.”
[308] See opposite, the map of part of Salford.
[309] Merton Documents, No. 5209, Rental of Ibstone (about 1600): “Item, Thomas Skott holdeth ix acres as it is estymed lieinge together in Tillage.” “John ... holdeth 16 acres of Lande lieinge together in Redfield.”
[310] Exchanges are not uncommon, e.g. Roxburghe Club, Pembroke Surveys, Manor of South Brent and Huish: “Note that the same Thomas with leave of the Court has exchanged the said acre lying near Appleworth with John Moore, customary tenant of the lord, for one acre lyinge in Holmefield.” Mr. Kolthammer has called my attention to a case (Ashford Court Rolls, 1605), in which a tenant gives up a number of half acre strips lying between the lands of another, and receives in exchange some strips of the latter which lie between his own.