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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, who died in 1282 25 holding 6 yardlands in Charlton which passed to his son Edmund 26 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… only c. 240 a. in all, consisted mainly of the twelve half yardlands shared equally between the two serjeanty manors, … and the Richmond fee had only free tenants. Some freehold yardlands, singly or combined, were recorded into the 14th … four 18-a. holdings, presumably representing half yardlands. 16 At inclosure only 70 a., all but 3 a. held of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Campion, in 1348 still had a house and three quarters of 2 yardlands held for three lives from William Power, who …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of North Weston, 282 and in 1547 Bishop Longland leased 4 yardlands, Bishop's Weir, and some quitrents for 99 years to … early 19th century. 388 In the 18th century the earls' 4 yardlands (about 140 acres) in Moreton formed part of their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… farm, held as much as 486 acres of which 424 acres (or 12 yardlands) were open-field arable. 249 Part of Moreton was … a London haberdasher and granted the end of his lease of 2 yardlands in Thame in payment (ibid. N 440). For him see A. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… Nichols, Leics. iv. 786; there were then said to be 30 yardlands in Bromkinsthorpe; cf. the 31 yardlands said to be there in 1279: ibid. iv. 565. See above, …
A History of the County of Leicester
… only 2 roods. The East Field was estimated to contain 34 yardlands. There is very little mention of old inclosure … of Leic. 121. MS. Queen's Coll. Oxf. 366, f. 18. Or 38 yardlands: T.L.A.S. xiv. 14. Fielding Johnson, Glimpses of …
A History of the County of Leicester
… by the corporation in the south field amounted to 16 yardlands, 57 and there was in addition all the meadow land … south field were enlarged by the purchase of two further yardlands from a Mr. Wightman, in or shortly before 1589, 59 the acquisition of two more yardlands from Richard and Francis Archer about 1602, 60 and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of Kenilworth. 57 In 1291 the canons of Kenilworth had 2 yardlands, worth 12 s., in demesne, the rents of the remainder of their land (about 18 yardlands in 1279) 58 producing 4 6 s. 8 d., pleas of court 6 …