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enclosure of land with a house worth los. and two hens at 

 Christmas, another cottage, a tenement and enclosure called 

 the Swan, for which a sparrowhawk is paid yearly, and two 

 other tenements.' These appendages to houses are of course 

 held in severalty. 



Next comes the survey of the fields, in which the several 

 inhabitants have ' lands.' Thus he says in this field, the 

 parson has two lands, the lord three, another one, another 

 two, the lord four, the prior two, the parson one, another 

 tenant two, the next one, the next one, the next two, the 

 prior three, the lord two and the headland, the other belong- 

 ing to the parson. This is the division of Dale furlong, and 

 similarly Bare furlong, Wheathill furlong, Rye Hill, Pease Hill, 

 are divided into lands. Near one of these stands a windmill, 

 at which the lord's tenants are bound to grind all their 

 corn and malt. The lord is to find all materials, the miller 

 all the labour, pay zos. a year, grind the lord's mill toll 

 free, ' and grind it first next to the corn that is in the hopper, 

 if any be.' 



Next comes the long meadow belonging to the township of 

 Dale. It contains 122 acres. Here in one portion the lord 

 has four acres, a freeholder two and a-half, the parson three, 

 another tenant two and a-half, a third three, the prior four, 

 and the lord eight, and so with the other plots. These 

 meadows should be staked and bounded. Then the closes 

 are described, one of thirty acres belonging to the lord, and 

 worth 2Oj. a year, another to the parson of ten acres, another 

 of two acres held rent free by a freeholder, and a third held 

 of the lord, of which the dimensions are not given. Similar 

 plots of -enclosures are held by other tenants, these cases being 

 merely given as illustrations. The residue of the treatise is 

 mainly concerned with the method by which waste and barren 

 or marshy land may be enclosed, and with a description of 

 the different kinds of watermills. 



Every husbandman has six several closes, three for corn, one 

 for leyse,' one for common pasture, and a sixth for hay. One 



