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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… customary tenants, besides smallholders, sharing 22 half yardlands, One tenant had 9 half yardlands, but other similar holdings were shared or combined in lots including 1½ or 2½ half yardlands, worked by two or three people. One or two had been …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the earl of Oxford 55 possibly represented the three yardlands held in 1086 by the earl's predecessor Hugh de …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… also increased by a third; the holdings reckoned in yardlands totalled 56 yardlands, besides the equivalent of at least another 22 yardlands measured in acres. The Domesday sokeland had been …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… land and houses in Swavesey, 58perhaps including the 2 yardlands whichit held in demesne in 1279 59and which … in the 13th century was variously assessed as a hide, 3 yardlands, or half a hide. The overlordship descended with … bought more property. In 1809 John Dodson had 20 half yardlands and 12½ commonable houses; in 1838 he had 26 half …
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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… 1 At least 26 tenants were named c.1248, each holding yardlands and crofts, 2 although the manor may have been … the abbey's serfs (or servi), with holdings measured in yardlands, and cottars, who held smallholdings called crofts. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… in the early 1950s. 71 In 1201 William Peto granted 2 yardlands and pasture-rights at Syde to Llanthony Priory. In … Dedicated to the Virgin, it was endowed with a house and 2 yardlands. 133 It appears to have lapsed before the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… in demesne. Its tenants, apart from 12 freeholders with 9 yardlands and 4 a. between them, owed labour services. Fourteen holding in all 7 yardlands for cash rents and customary payments were expected … Similar services were required of eight tenants holding 2 yardlands between them. Five bondmen with yardland and 6 a. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… comprised 20 customary tenements of a yardland, 12 half-yardlands, and a number of smaller holdings; also included …