COMPOSITION. 91 



William Reynold, in errable xx ac., in pasture x ac., in medow 



ij ac., in wood j ac. 

 John White, in errable xviij ac., in pasture xix ac., in medow j ac., 



in wood j ac. 

 John Reynold, in enable xviij ac., in pasture ix ac., in medow 



ij ac., in wood j ac. 



Allice Younge, in pasture xxiij ac., in medow ij ac 

 Joane Younge, in errable xxx ac., in pasture viij ac., in medow ij ac. 

 Richard Swithiue, in errable xiij ac., pasture xv ac., in medow ij ac. 

 Pawle Winckworthe, in errable iiij ac., in pasture xx ac., in 



medow v ac. 

 John Leggatt, in errable xxx ac., in pasture xx ac., in medow ij ac., 



in wood j ac. 



Agnes Bolle, in errable vj ac., in pasture iiij ac. 

 Richard White, in errable viij ac., in pasture xj ac. 

 Edmond Winckworth, in pasture xiiij ac., in medow j ac. 

 William Prissmall, * in errable ij ac., in pasture xxvj ac., in 



medow ij ac. 

 John ffosberrye, t in errable xiiij ac., in pasture viij ac., in medow 



iij ac. 



Walter ALfforde, in errable iij ac., in pasture xx ac., in medow ij ao. 

 Nicholas Whetland, in pasture xxv ac., in medow v ac. 

 Walter Spencer, in pasture xxvij ac., in medow j ac., in wood ij ac. 

 Edmond Winckworthe, in pasture xj ac., in medow j ac., in wood v ac. 



Sum of wheate in the tything 



vneate in the tything ) , . . . 



, ,, , . 1 quarter vj buh. 



of Itchinswell. ) 



The tything of ASHMINSWORTHE. 



John Cole holdeth the manor of Ashminsworth in ffarme by 

 estimacon, vj yard land wherof in pasture xl ac., w<* h is the 

 wood allowed for ffewell, and in medow x ao., the rest errable, 



* The name of Prissmall still survives in the neighbourhood of Newbury. 



f The Posberrya are an old Hampshire family, some of whom were not long 

 since living at Woodhay. The Fosberys of Clorane and Cnrraghbridge, in 

 Ireland, derive their descent from an ancestor, anciently of Hampshire, who 

 settled in Ireland in the reign of William III., in whose army he held a 

 commission in a regiment of dragoons. From him descended George FoHbury, 

 Esq., of Clorane, high-sheriff of Limerick in 1743. 



J Ashmansworth. The Anglo-Saxons brought their words over with them, 

 and applied those words according to the character of the places where they 

 settled. Their way was this. A number of men settled on one spot. Each 

 had a portion of arable land, held under the principal lord, on which he lived ; 

 this was for his own exclusive use. But their feeding ground, their pasture, as 



