[409] MSS. of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham, Sparham Documents, Bdle. No. 5.
[410] Ibid., Fulmordestone Documents, No. 59. Description of manor at bottom of map (1614).
[411] In All Souls' Muniment Room.
[412] Maps in All Souls' Muniment Room: “The description of the parsonage of Harriesham in the countie of Kent, with the glebe lands thereunto belonging.” Note on back of map: “Memorandum that whereas there are and always have been 4 parcelles of land in Mr. Steed his fielde called Harriesham field belonging unto the parsonage of Harriesham, conteyninge by estimation three acres, whereof the one did lye along by the landes of Sir Edward Wootton, called the Cowe doune, the other ... abutteth on the said Cowe doune toward the east, the other boundes thereof not being certainly known by reason that they were plowed up by one Robert Brinkley, tenant of the whole field, and were laid out by Robert Brinkley as in the Platte doth appeare under the Redd colour; It is now covenanted by the said Mr. Steede and Mr. George Hovenden, incumbent there, by deed bearing date the 20th of July in the 17th year of the Queen’s Majestie’s reign, that nowe all that the said three acres shall from henceforth be possessed by the parson and his successors for ever in manner and form as it is nowe laid out in the platte in the yellow colour after the maner of a square" [here follow the boundaries].
[413] Leadam, Domesday of Enclosures. For a discussion as to whether they suggest that enclosing took place for arable or pasture, see Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. xiv.
[414] Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xi.
[415] Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, vol. i. pp. 171–173.