82 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Farleigh. 



762 acres of arable land at 3^ an acre 9 .10 . 6. 



36^ „ of pasture „ at 2/ „ 3 .13 . 0. 



38 ,, of woodland valued at 2.0.0. 



Total 836i acres of land and the above is £24 .16 . 0. 



Here the interval is two hundred and forty years, and the fol- 

 lowing changes are to be remarked, viz., a small decrease in the 

 area of cultivated land, a small increase in the value of the income, 

 and a very large increase in the population and in the nature of it, 

 the twenty-one coterelli, or cottagers, being a new element. 



I imagine that in 1294 the limits of cultivable lands in the manor 

 had been reached, and I conjecture that the ten acres less of arable 

 land in 1535 had been swallowed up in the gardens and cottages of 

 the twenty-one coterelli. The creation of this new and considerable 

 body of villagers was due principally to these facts, that our manor, 

 together with the (then) hamlet of Wraxhall (two hundred and 

 twelve acres), was the home farm of the Priory, and that the monks 

 had become large proprietors of live and dead stock.' 



^ It is appropriate to our parish history, and it may interest some to know 

 something of the number, the value, and the kind of stock that was in use upon 

 a farm of about 1049 acres in those days — two hundred and fifty years ago — and 

 I therefore append a tabular statement of it : — 



