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" 14. Item : Our Custome is that the Lord at his Cost Do Maintain Stoppels 

 Bridge. 



" 15. Item : Our Custom is to go into prosession' two Days in Rogation 

 Week Every Year, to Repair the Bounds of the Lordshipp ; and to have 

 Cake and Beer provided, According to the Antient Custome, By the Two 

 Farms, whareof one is the Lord's Farm and the Other is Snow's Farm. 



" 16. Item : Our Custome is to Keep Fifty five Sheep to a Yard Lands 

 upon the Feilds, Down and Commons of the Manner, and to Keep Four 

 Cows to a Yard Land upon the Feilds, Cow Down- And Wast Ground of the 

 Mannor ; also to keep two Stone Horses or two Geldings to a Yard Lands in 

 the Feilds, Horse Down and Other wast Ground. 



" 17th. Item : Our Custome is that Everey Tennant is to keep a Ram to 

 A Yard Land, and that the Tenants Lay k part of the Feild Ground towards 

 the Breeding of ten Lams to Everey Yard Lands. 



" 18. Item : Our Custome is that Any Tennant May, for Everey Y''ard Land 

 put A weaned Calf of his Own Breed to feed in the Stuble Feilds and Other 

 wast Grounds ; But not to take in any Jeemons,^ or Let any Lease for Calves. 



" 19. Item : Our Custome is that No Tennant, Inhabitant or Renter Shall 

 at any time Keep in his Common any Great Cattle of Any Stranger or 

 Forreigners. 



" 20. Item : it is against Our Custome for the Lord to make Estate in 

 Revation, without the Consent of the Life, or Widdow, in possesion. 



" 21. Item : it is Against Our Custome for Any Tennant to keep a Mare in 

 Any Common or Inclosure, of his Tennament. 



"22d Item : It is Against Our Custome For Any Tennant to Keep a Goat, 

 or Goose in Any Common, or Inclosed Ground of the Mannor. 



" 23. Item : it is A gainst Our Custome for Any Tennant to Let Swine out 

 of his Gate, without Being Ringed, to feed upon wast Ground of the Manner.^ 



" 24. Item : it is Our Custome that Since the Mill was Erected in the wast 

 Ground of the Mannor, the Miller is to pen the watter Not A Bove A Bound 



' " Memorandum that uppon the P'cessian day May 15th, 1626 there being 

 a question of the devidinge of the Vicarage acre in the north bottome fro 

 W" Gilbert's wh- shuteth uppon him, y' was decided by Geo. Gilbert that 

 they did part in the middle of the eleventh acre, &c. &c." (Shrewton Registei-). 



Of the field names mentioned in these Customs, the following appear in 

 the tithe Apportionment : — Hyde field. High down, Woodlams, Horse croft. 

 Midsummer mead. Middle and Cowdown, West crook (? brook), Dunnell's 

 piece (? Dumers). 



- At Maddington within living memory, the village cows went to feed on 

 what is still known as the cow-down, to left of Chitterne road. In summer 

 they fed by night to avoid the heat ; the old man in charge, who drove them 

 to and fro each day, having a hut on the down to shelter him. (H. Maslen.) 



^ i.e., Agistments, cattle taken in to keep. Jist, jyst, gist the 

 verb : gister the animal : gistin the pasturage. (Dial. Diet). Compare 

 Agister in New Forest. In Chitterne Overseers' Accounts is a note that a 

 claim was made early in 19th century for tithe on agistment, the tithe on 

 hay of that pasture having already been paid — the claim was not allowed. 

 ■• The " Orders of Shrewton" provide for a swineherd. 



