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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 115 a. The lord had ten villeins holding 15-a. half yardlands, and thirteen more with quarter yardlands. The half yardlanders owed two works a week … the surviving customary holdings, styled 'full' and 'half' yardlands and 'cotsetles lands', were still held heritably in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 1279 is incomplete, recording only 1 a. of demesne, 2 yardlands of unfree tenant land, and a half-yardland freeholding; the division of the 2 yardlands among 4 tenants holding ½ yardland each suggests a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the return appears to be incomplete, recording only 2 ½ yardlands, and 7 or 8 taxpayers in the earlier 14th century. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to a group of leading villagers. 76The copyhold half yardlands were enlarged from c. 15 a. to c. 20 a. in the late … fens and acquiesced in the increased size of the half yardlands. Hempsals fen covered c. 480 a., Middle and … mostly of Jesus College. All but 4 of the 28 medieval half yardlands remained separate and intact or virtually so in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the tithing of Lake, then 438 a. of arable, constituted 16 yardlands, or about 27 a. to a yardland; 126 the glebe in … after the haymaking. 128 The existence of villeins and yardlands, and the crop rotation suggest that there was some … No Inclosure Award for the parish has been found. The 16 yardlands of Lake in 1846 were made up of 9 yardlands from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Berneval, 10 and in 1361 Buddington was described as 2 yardlands held of Bramber rape. 11 Ralph Shirley of Wiston …