viii] Poptdatioit. loi 



from the list of 122 bond tenements given at the end of the Survey 

 of 1565 ; second from the Court Rolls. But a comparison of the list 

 in the Survey with the names of tenements that appear in the Court 

 Rolls and in other parts of the Survey shows that the list (Nos. i — 122) 

 is incomplete\ Making due allowance for the possibility that the 

 same tenement may appear under more than one name, it seems safe 

 to add to the surveyor's list the names of at least thirteen more 

 tenements (Nos. 123 — 135). To this list of 135 bond tenements 

 should be added three purprestures, two or three buildings on former 

 demesne and one cottage ' recently built' 



Column 4 indicates the state of the messtiagia in 1565 — 

 whether built or vacant — as described in the Survey. In a few 

 cases information lacking in the Survey has been supplied from 

 Court Rolls of about the same date. 



Columns 5-10 record the dates of those extant Court Rolls in 

 which the messiiagia of the several tenements are conveyed for 

 the first and last time respectively as vacua^ aedificata, or simply 

 as fnessiiagia. 



The information thus tabulated gives an approximate answer 

 to our first question regarding the number of dwellings of bond 

 tenure standing in 1565. These we count as 63, of which 57 

 formed part of the old servile tenements, while three were cottages 

 (purprestures) near Westwood Green, and three or four buildings were 

 erected comparatively late on former demesne and did not form part 

 of any bond tenement^. 



Since there were some 135 bond tenements within the manor 

 to each of which one messuage or dwelling would normally belong, 

 then if only 57 houses pertaining to 57 bond tenements were 

 standing in 1565 it is clear that at the same date the vacant bond 

 dwelling sites must have numbered about 78. But as the table in 

 Appendix IV. indicates, the vacant sites of only about 44 bond 

 messuages are mentioned as such in conveyances or Survey. The 

 messuages belonging to the 34 other bond tenements are nowhere 

 clearly mentioned in the rolls. But we have reckoned these 34 mes- 

 suages as vacant ; for the hypothesis that best explains the facts is 

 that they had fallen into decay at an early date (i 350-1400), and that 



^ For instance, the surveyor has failed to include the only tenement held of Forncett 

 manor in Flordon vill and two out of the three Wymondham tenements. 



2 The three buildings referred to are a cottage built about 1500, near St Mary's Church, 

 and two houses (it is not certain that they were dwellings) also near St Mary's Church and 

 built on former demesne, one in the third and the other in the fourth quarter of the fifteenth 

 century. These two houses are not described in the Survey and are not indicated on the 

 Map. A third house on former demesne is shown on the Map near Cawdwell Common, 

 St Mary's. 



