Terrier of Church Lands, e. 229 
} ifany. For every back door w™ opens into y® Church Yard 
(heretofore granted upon sufferance to some neighbouring 
Inhabitants) Sixpence per Ann™. 
In Staffordton The Tythes of an Hamlet win the s¢ Parish called 
the Tythe of Staffordton are paid by an Ancient Composition or Custome 
the Demeasnes. ) thereupon viz.—As for the Demeasnes, the Greater Tythes 
thereof are not paid to the Rectors of Trowbridge, and for 
the lesser Tythes the Customary payment to the said Rector 
is}One Pound Thirteen shillings and Fower pence per ann™, 
to be paid at 4 payments Quarterly. For the tenements at the 
Rate of Thirteen shillings and Fower pence peran™, Out of 
everyHalfe Yard Land,and out of every Mundays hold (which 
is y® 4th part of a yard land) Six shillings and eight pence 
p'an™, All which are to be paid at 4 payments Quarterly. 
: There are of these twenty and fower half yard Lands, and 3 
Mundays hold,* so y® totall yearly summe payable for these 
| is Seaventeen pounds. 
The Mylls. For the Mills at Staffordton by a stated Composition Nine 
: Shillings per anu™ to be paid at Easter. 
Chappell Yard. _ By said Composition or Custome, the Herbage or Feeding 
of y® Chappell yard at Staffordton belongs to the Rectors of 
7 Trowbridge. The Bounds of it are to be made good by the 
owners of the Demeasnes, and others whose lands bound 
upon y® s¢ Chappell yard. 
; Portion of On the North West side of Ashton Common (called 
; Tythes in Hawegrove) there are six Grounds commonly knowne by 
AshtonParish. ) the names of Polebarne Grounds and Singers Grounds, now 
in the possession of Joseph Holton, James Singer, and 
Eleanor Singer, Wid:, or their assigns, and on the South 
West Side of the st Comon Eight Grounds mora commonly 
eall’d Footpath Grounds, Blackball Grounds, and Arnolds 
Meades, now in the possession of the said Joseph Holton 
William Slade, Robert Beach Sent, Harry Wallis, and 
William Yerbury, or their Assigns, all which lands are 
e situate in the parish of Ashton, but by a certain Custom 
54 or Prescription the Tythes of them have always (beyond any 
known memory to the Contrary) beene paid to y° Rectors 
; of Trowbridge who have alwaies paid to y® Vicar of 
% Ashton in lieu of y* s4 Portion of Tythes y* yearly Rent of 
Fower Shillings. Now this Portion of Tythes so paid to the 
Rectors of Trowbridge being lately questioned and challenged 
by y° Vicar of Ashton, the Rector of Trowbridge made it 
/ 

*The expression ‘* Mondaies-thing,” which is evidently the same as a ‘‘ Mondays-hold”’ occurs 
frequently in the Court Rolls of Castle Combe. See Scrope’s Castle Combe, pp. 335, 336. In the 
same book (p. 146) also we read of Monday-men, the tenants of such holdings. There can be little 
3 doubt that the expressions we so frequently meet with in the Shaftesbury Chartulary, in reference 
to small holdings at Holt and elsewhere in this neigbourhood, and also in the Glastonbury Register 
_ (just brought to light by Canon Jackson) of tenements held by the obligation of personal service to 
_ the lord every Monday, “‘ gualibet die Lune,’’ are the real explanation of this term, 
