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A History of the County of Oxford
… of Westminster to Nicholas Barton. 44 Sixteenth-century leases also mention two mills. 45 In 1231 licence was granted … 188 Most lessees of the demesne were half-virgaters. Joint leases by as many as ten tenants occur in the 15th century. … of forfeiture, the right of copyholders to grant short sub-leases, the privileges of the executors' year, and the timber …