68 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



The hundred of OUERTON, 1575. 



BRADLYE. 



Imprimis the gleebe in the manurance * of the parson xvij ac. err. 

 It m he holdeth by Copye xl ac., errable et valet pr ann., 

 xx li. 



FIRMARIU' f IBID. 



It in errable xij yeard land, 360 ac., in pasture 220 ac., 

 in woode ground 140 ac. 



TENENTES IBID. 



William ffinden i yard land 30 ac. 



George Pryor, i yard land 30 ac. 



Andrew Adames - xxij ac. 



John Newman - - xxiiij ac. 



Eliz. Camis, di yeard land xv ac. 



Thomas if order J - - - - vij ac. di. 



The Parsonage of COLD WALTHAM. 



In the manurance of the parson in glebe iiij yeard land Errab. 

 In pasture x ac., in wood ground iij ac., et valet pran 1. 



FFIRMARIU' IBID. 



In the manurance of James Rumboll of errable xiiij yeard land 

 420 ac., in pasture xl ac., in wood ground 70 ac. 



* Manurance, i.e. in the occupation. 



f ffirmarius, i.e., the farmer, tenant, or occupier of the manor lands. The 

 rights and privileges of a manor were leased out from time to time to firmarii 

 or land farmers as they were termed, acting in the name and under the 

 authority of the owners, shortly, they held the estate ad firmam or on farm. 



t Thomas fforder. This is the name of a family which has long held a 

 prominent and honourable position in the city of Winchester. 



The very numerous and extensive family of Rumboll or Rnmbold held 

 very considerable property here in the days of " Good Queen Bess," and has 

 ever since been connected by the possession of estates in this neighbourhood. 

 Preston House, Preston Candover, the seat of the Rnmbold family, was 

 formerly the residence of the late Chas. Edmund Rombold, Esq., M.P. for 

 Great Yarmouth. It has been pointed out to us by the Rev. Sumner Wilson, 

 M.A., Vicar of Preston Candover, that there were before 1711, sixty-two small 

 portions of land in that parish, ranging from below an acre to about five or six 

 acres, called "Marsh Plots," or "Mersh Plots," the owners of which paid 

 to the Churchwardens up to the above date one penny the Mersh plot. The 

 payment was then lost. The vicar observes that the position of the Marsh 

 plots here seems to point to an earlier arrangement than would arise from any 

 large occupation of common lands more probably to a Lime when the smaller 

 tenants holding under lords of various manors had small plots of land for their 

 own houses and home gardens. The Vicar receives for these lands only both 

 small and great tithes. There is a similar custom in Surrey in the parish of 

 Westbonrne, there called Muse plots. 



