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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… only 60 a. of arable in 1405, when eight customary tenants held 120 a. of arable. 75 In the mid 18th century the … called North field was in 1309 shared between the lord and tenants of the manor as feeding for beasts in summer and was grazed by the tenants' sheep in winter; the men of the manor also had a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating that these works were constructed by the Druids; and in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… demesne was worked by 4 servi with 2 ploughs, while the tenants (3 villeins and 3 bordars) had ½ plough; … to 50 s. since the Conquest. 33 By 1279 Yelford men were tenants of three manors. The Hastings manor, its demesne … perhaps 4 yardlands; rents yielded £1, and the villein's works were valued at 9 s. By 1305 there were 6 free tenants …
A History of the County of Oxford
… way to Bampton, the latter to Hardwick. 62 Evidently the tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and … of flooding, not entirely solved by extensive drainage works in the area in the mid 19th century, 81 probably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… confusion with the hundred court. 88 Sixteenth-century tenants of the former Grey manor paid suit to Hardwick's … 91 In the 1840s, and presumably until inclosure in 1853, tenants of Wadham College's Yelford estate, descended from … rest of Yelford persisted in later parochial arrangements, tenants of the open-field land being taxed with Hardwick and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house to B. Babington Smith in 1952. 61 Of the Lenthalls' tenants at Yelford from the mid 17th century few were … a recent sale. 8 The Walwyns were not resident, but their tenants the Moseleys were one of the three families paying …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been found. 62 Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were …