A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



and in spite of high farming it is, or was until recently, a county, if not of 

 small holders, at least of small occupiers. In 1887 the holdings of 20 acres 

 and under numbered about a thousand more than did the holdings above, 

 and in 1902 it was stated that the demand for holdings of 50 acres was 

 increasing. 309 



APPENDIX I 



The following is the list of Inquisitions Post Mortem in Nottinghamshire, between 1275 and 

 1330, containing 'extents' which give some information as to the proportion of bond and free 

 land. Names marked with an asterisk are those of which the 'extents' contain details of land 

 values, on which the calculations in the text are based. 



M9 Rider Haggard, Rural Engl. ii, 280. 

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