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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… unit; and by the 13th century it nominally contained 4 yardlands or around 120 acres. honor: a group of manors held … unit of land measurement, nominally containing 4 yardlands or around 120 acres. poll tax: royal tax charged in … at market, although cottagers and those with fragments of yardlands lived closer to subsistence, and probably worked …
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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… unit; and by the 13th century it nominally contained 4 yardlands or around 120 acres. honor: a group of manors held … unit of land measurement, nominally containing 4 yardlands or around 120 acres. poll tax: royal tax charged in … at market, although cottagers and those with fragments of yardlands lived closer to subsistence, and probably worked …
A History of the County of Oxford
… consolidated in a small group of closes on the east. 8 Yardlands were reckoned at 40 a. c. 1360 and at 'above' 35 a. … risen from £4 in 1066 to £5. 32 There were still 8 villein yardlands in 1279, held for 4 s. 8½ d. rent and works valued … overall pattern remained similar in 1327. 36 Six villein yardlands and the two half yardlands survived c. 1360, 37 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… became attached to the manor. Roger d'Oilly gave 2 yardlands in Aston before 1142, and his son Roger another yardland before 1180; 69 6 yardlands in Aston and 4 in East Weald (later Claywell) in … to Buckland. Much of the land in Aston and Cote, 8½ or 9 yardlands in the mid 17th century, had been sold by 1748, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… estate the customary tenements in 1346 comprised 2 yardlands, 2 half-yardlands, and 1 quarteryardland; another yardland was held …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and was held by another Gilbert of Shipton, 33 who had 4 yardlands in the parish. 34 By 1303 the estate had been … century the abbey acquired other property, including 2 yardlands earlier held by Gilbert of Shipton in Shipton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Charitable Trust. 12 The rectory, comprising tithes and 2 yardlands of glebe, was valued at £4 in 1254, at £4 6 s. 8 d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (later c. 17 a.) and Pilford (later c. 11 a.); the villein yardlands presumably had meadow in Cotman mead (later North … were lot meadow. There were eight lots, belonging to eight yardlands in the fields, so that two yardland tenements owned … a stint of 40 sheep to the yardland, but in 1685 the two yardlands of glebe had common for only 60 sheep. 44 In 1705 …