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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… had given to the priory. 62 The monks had also acquired an assart of 40 a. at Headinghill by grant of Henry II c. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to Bec was made in 1248 when Henry III granted a. of assart in Selwood Forest. This had been assarted at the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wood which seems likely to have originated as a roadside assart on the edge of Whittlewood. By the early 18th century, … in chief of the Wicken estate, except (in 1277) for an assart which the undertenant held of the king in chief. 41 Possibly as a result of confusion between the assart and the manor proper, the same undertenant was said in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… then, as later, mainly in the centre and north. 52 A new assart recorded in 1270 seems to have adjoined the boundary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th century. Several prominent medieval burgesses held assart land in Hailey and sometimes sizeable estates …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 90 Prominent Witney clothiers continued to lease inclosed assart in Hailey in the 17th century, 91 and several held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… group Roger Hering, who in 1279 had 11 houses and 45 a. of assart, was a wealthy wool merchant who also rented demesne … clearly set them apart, but the importance of their assart holdings should probably not be exaggerated. Assarts … of use, 34 and increasing difficulty in finding takers for assart and demesne land may also reflect problems among some …