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A History of the County of York East Riding
… formerly with morasses, but now for the most part with low commons and meadows'. 5 The village lay mainly along the road … 14th centuries, for example, the Hildyard family held the commons belonging to one bovate of arable land, and they had … enjoyed rights of two kinds. First, there were 'commons', which applied to the fields, commonable meadows, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 94 The assumed transfer of ownership of the soil of the commons from the honor to the manor of Nether Stowey in the … have given rise to the claims of tenants of that manor to commons there. In the later 20th century the parish councils …
A History of the County of Somerset
… had more than four rooms. 82 The inclosure of Stogursey commons on the Quantocks in the later 17th century created a … farm, half of which was woodland. The remainder of the commons, some 440 a., was divided and let. 83 In the early …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was open to all cattle from May Day, and the smaller commons near the village, Hawcroft and Fore Hill, were for … The commoners kept c. 1,000 milk cows on the grazing commons from May Day to October, fed them on the second growth of the mowing commons from October until winter, kept them indoors on hay …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the mere way and the baulk or procession way. 32 The fen commons east of Ouse fen bank were inclosed in 1628. 33Part … 47, 304; 33 Parl. Deb. 3rd ser. 1064-6; T. E. Scrutton, Commons and Common Fields, 156-7. V.C.H. Cambs. i. 370-2, …