TOLLABD FARNHAM. 'Ill 



fallow or in clover. When the crops were carried, 

 the common fields were thrown open for the benefit 

 of all the tenants of the Manor. Cattle were first 

 turned in, and subsequently sheep. The cattle appear 

 to have been fed from the time of carrying" the corn 

 till November, and the sheep to have been folded on 

 the fields during the winter. The fallow field was 

 not to be broken up till Midsummer. The hedges 

 round the common fields were repaired by the severalty 

 holders, in proportion to their holdings in such fields. 

 There were grass banks called lanchards in the common 

 fields, which it was forbidden to plough up. The cattle 

 were not pastured on these until the corn was carried. 

 The ownership of land in each of these three common 

 fields was minutely divided each owner having three 

 or four, and often more, detached lots in each of the 

 fields. These lands were held by two kinds of cus- 

 tomary tenure (1) Copyholds held not absolutely, but 

 during three lives, renewable upon the dropping of 

 a life, on payment of a fine of considerable amount ; 

 (2) Leaseholds for a term of 99 years, if certain persons 

 named in the lease should live so long. These leases 

 were granted by the lord, on payment of a fine, at a 

 small yearly reserved rent. They had probably been 

 substituted for some more certain tenure, such as 

 that which the copyholders enjoyed. There appear, in 

 1814, to have been thirty-five such customary tenants, 

 of whom twenty-six were leaseholders. Up to the 

 date of the sale by Lord Arundel to Lord Eivers, the 

 tenancies of the Manor continued in much the same 



