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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… tenants jointly. 13 Holdings in the 15th century included yardlands and half-yardlands. In 1467 John Beale, a freeholder, owed 20 s. a year for two yardlands 14 and in 1475 he instructed his tenants at Hall …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… have included most of the parish, save for the glebe (two yardlands before inclosure in 1711), 4 8 a. given by John … and grazed sheep in the fallow. 7 At that date customary yardlands seem to have included around 36 a. of arable, … shared 7 ploughlands, of which one (later reduced to 3 yardlands) lay probably at Lemhill. 6 Tenants' rents in 1194 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… holdings, and 5 other freeholders had a total of 8½ yardlands and 5 a. 5 The demesne was in hand in the earlier … manors included c. 28 copyholds with c. 600 a., and 9 yardlands were held freely. Most of the copyhold land was in …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… made at the same time shows that the college held about 11 yardlands, and Burrough over 38. This gives a rough average … canons exercising this right. In 1607 the rector held two yardlands of glebe. 38 After the inclosure the rectors held …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… his successor by 1134, 53 had before 1135 annexed 1½ more yardlands of tenanted land that had once owed works. They assigned other such land, in holdings of two or three yardlands, at rent to the occupants. Abbot Walter (1133-60) also granted three yardlands of demesne to kinsmen and clients. Thus by 1150 …