6 An Elizabethan Survey and Do^nesday Book. [ch. 



The present area of the parish of Forncett St Peter is 1901 acres. 



But the Survey contains an account of only 1281 acres, and some 



550 'perches' of meadow \ 



Messuages, crofts and gardens ii8a., 2r. 



Arable 1063a., ir. 



Meadow 55 a., i r., 550 'perches M 



Marsh loa., ir. 76a., r., 550 



_-, ^ 'perches 



Pasture 11 a. ] 



Wood 22 a.) 3 r. 



1 28 1 a., 550 'perches' 



But measuring upon the map we get the following figures in 

 statute acres : 



. Messuages, crofts and gardens loi a. 



Arable 1364 a. 



Meadow, marsh and low pasture 78 a. 



Wood 47 a.^ 



Commons 311 a. 



1901 a. 



The Domesday dimensions of Fornesseta (St Mary's) are one and 

 a half miles by three-fourths of a mile. Measuring on the meridian 

 and parallel of St Mary's Church, these are very nearly the dimen- 

 sions of the present parish. The waste, in 1565, was not intersected 

 by these lines, so that no light is thrown on the question whether the 

 measurements of Domesday Book included the waste land of the vill. 



The Domesday dimensions of Twanton are eleven by six furlongs. 

 Measuring as before on lines passing through the church, the distance 

 from the eastern limit of St Peter's to the western boundary of 

 precinct I. is between eleven and twelve statute furlongs; the width of 

 the parish north and south is between seven and eight statute furlongs. 



The dimensions of Keklington are not given in Domesday, so 

 that the large district between precincts I. and II. and West wood — 

 some 600 acres — is apparently not included in the measured area of 

 the Record. 



^ The section of the Survey relating to this parish is imperfect. Seven foHos, describing 

 the first precinct and part of the second, are missing. But the lost portion can be partly 

 reconstructed from the section of the Survey in which the holdings of the tenants are described, 

 as well as from the Court Rolls of Forncett and of Moulton manors. The reconstruction is 

 necessarily incomplete since some land in these precincts was held of Clavers manor, of which 

 we have no rolls. Moreover, as the map shows, the south-east corner of Forncett St Peter 

 (about 130 acres) was not surveyed, nor some 24 acres of the 'ridding' in the north-east of 

 this parish. The • ridding ' south of Westwood Green is also omitted, and the acreage of the 

 commons is not stated. Thus the Survey proper (cf. above, p. i, n. 2), in its present imper- 

 fect state, contains an account of only 1 124 a. 2 r. and some 550 ' perches ' of meadow. The 

 list of tenants' holdings and the Court Rolls give information concerning 156 a. 2 r. more, 

 making a total of 1281a. 



2 24 acres in XII. 6 are estimated as woodland. 



