2 Notes on Common Lands in and around Durrington. 
For example, in Milston :— 
Stephen Maton, holding 5} acres, had a right of feed on the 
tenantry down for five sheep. 
John Smith, with 8 acres, had a like right for five sheep. 
Edward White, with 7 acres, had a right on the tenantry 
down for seventeen sheep; another, with 17? acres, for 
thirty-four sheep; and yet another, having 18 acres, for 
forty-three sheep. 
Margaret Hopkins, having 40 acres, had a right of feed for 
eighty-two sheep ; and a copyhold, described as late Collier’s, 
fed the same number of sheep, although it was nearly 49 
acres. 
Benjamin Hayden had nearly 100 acres and with this a right 
for two hundred and five sheep. The Lower Farm, of 110 
acres, had a right of feed for two hundred and twenty-four 
sheep on a down of about seven hundred and fifty-four acres. 
In this account of Milston, which belongs to 1813, there is no 
mention of rights for any but sheep. Earlier rights for cows and 
horses certainly existed there: and in the large parish of Amesbury 
about 312 acres were lands commonable for part of the year for the 
common herd. 
These were the rights of the copyholders, leaseholders, small 
freeholders, and tenants. The lord of the manor had other rights 
in addition. 
In 1819 the lessee of Durrington West-end Manor under 
Winchester College claimed that the Manor Farm Flock had a 
right to feed all the wheat stubbles on the Kast-end (a lesser) 
Manor from Old Michaelmas to Martin’s tide yearly ; in the second 
barley field from Luke’s tide to Martin’s tide. In the West-end 
Manor the same flock had the feeding of Colt’s ham wheat and 
barley stubble two years out of three following; also yearly over 
low fields in other farms every year. Also over the whole of the 
Cow down from Michaelmas to Old Candlemas. Also Leaze for 
Manor farm Cows on the down and fields from May till November. 
So that the lord was indeed an over-lord. 
But a much worse evil than the rights of the lord of the manor 
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