14 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



flock ; and particularly the very great expense of occupying lands 

 in dispersed situations, gradually led to the extinction of this mode 

 of farming. Nearly 4,000 Enclosure Acts were passed between 

 1760 and 1844, and thus it will be readily understood how generally 

 prevalent was this ancient communal system so late as the days of 

 the grandfathers of the present generation. 



Before proceeding to the text of the survey, it may be well to say 

 a few words respecting the parishes and tithings to which it 

 extends. 



The particulars recorded comprise the following parishes and 

 tithings in the Hundred of Evenger. Whitchurch, including 

 Charlecott and Colhenlye, Freefolk Priors and Manor, Hurst- 

 bourne Priors or Down Husborne, St. Mary Bourne, Stoke, 

 Weeke, Egberry, Binley, Woodhay, Ecchenswell or Itchenswell, 

 Ashmansworth, Highclere and Hawclere, Burghclere or Borrow- 

 clere, Baghurst or Baughurst, and Newtowne. Hundred of 

 Chutlye. Monk Sherborne, Worting, Lawrence Wotton, Haning- 

 and ton, Church Oakley. Hundred of Kingsclere. Earlstone, 

 Edmonstrop Launcelewill, Edmonstrop Beenam, Frobury, The 

 Lordship of Kingsclere, Parsonage, The Ghiildhable, Hanington, 

 Launcewell or Launces, Sandford and Clere Woodcott, Ewhurst, 

 Wollferton or Wolverton, Sydmonton, Lychfeilde, or Litchfield, 

 North Oakley, and Plaistowe. Hundred of Pastroe. Crux Easton, 

 Faccombe, Lynchenholte or Linkenholt, Conholte, Woodcott, 

 Ffarnehamdeane or Yernham Deane, Hurstbourne-Tarrant or 

 Up-Husbourne, Tangley, and Coombe. Hundred of Overton. 

 Broadlye now Bradley, Cold Waltham now North Waltham, 

 Deane, Quidhamton, Ashe, Polhampton, Southanton or Southing- 

 ton, Norrington, Laverstocke, Tadley, and Overton. 



