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No. 64) the Archbishop of York leased to the Lease of 

 Prior and Convent of Hexham the demesnes there demesne, 

 for a term of 1 5 years, to be returned in the same I2 3 2 - 

 condition as received as to crops and fallow ; the 

 total being 179^ acres of arable land in 9 fields or 

 portions of fields (all specified), of which 78 acres 

 in Oats, 51^ in Wheat, and 50 in bare fallow 

 (terra warrecanda), together with the precations 

 of ploughs and harrows of the tenantry, and with 

 pasture for 1 6 oxen, and ploughbote for the draught 

 of 2 ploughs so that here were 90 acres per 

 demesne plough, part of which 90 acres the 

 villeinage would cultivate. 



Again in 1292 ( Malmesbury Reg. Rolls Series) Lease of / 



' .^ . /. , o . / Blakelound 



a lease was made by the Abbot to the cook 1292. 

 20 Ed. I. April of le Blakelound consisting of 

 105 acres sown (fallow not named) to wit 62 of 

 wheat, 1 1 barley, beans, and vetches, and 32 of 

 oats, together with los. of pasture, los. of custom- 

 ary works, 1 6 oxen, 2 horses, ploughs (came}, and 

 2 harrows, etc.* 



Further, in 47 Hen. III. (I.P.M. Yorks Record 

 Series), in the I.P.M. of Baldwin de Insula, there 

 are at his Manor of Harewood 279 acres arable in Manor of 

 demesne worked by 3 teams, nevertheless imme- 

 diately follow the plough services of the tenantry 

 on those acres equal at least to tilling 130 of them 

 once over, so that tho' he may have 3 ploughlands 

 of 93 acres each, and 3 ploughs in demesne, this is 

 nothing to the purpose in the matter of actual 

 work of one plough. Also in the same vols. 



h The deed cited in the Malmesbury Reg. just before this 

 one makes clear that caruc 1 means ploughs here and not a 

 plough presumably two. 



