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shares and meres and enclosing, it is evidence that the parcels 

 must have been in open field or at least intermixed in large 

 enclosures. 



The procedure which is recommended above by the surveyors 

 was in 1593 well under way at Carew or New Shipping, some ten 

 miles distant. In the hst of demesne lands, for the most part 

 closes, we hear of the following: — 



" One acre lying in the closure which lyeth on the north side 

 of the myll pond; it lyeth among other lands; it was taken from 

 the tenement that no we John hillen holdeth and added to the 

 demains of New Shippinge; this land is errable or pasture 

 ground. . . . Item iiii acres lyinge in the foresaid close, whereof 

 iii acres lyeth togeather in one peece and one acre at the end 

 thereof, all arrable or pasture ground . . . ; it [the iiii acres] was 

 sometyme belonging to the tenement that now John mertyn 

 holdeth. . . . 



" Parcells of grounde taken from tenements in newton and 

 added to the demesne of New Shipping: fower acres arable or 

 pasture; five of like ground; three acres of hke errable . . .; 

 two acres of like errable . . . ; two acres of Hke errable . . . ; 

 two acres of like errable. . . . Memorandum, all these . . . par- 

 cells of grounde are newly enclosed in one closure which close 

 lieth on the north side of the said mesuage of newe shippinge. . . . 



" Lands taken From newton annexed to New shippyng: Item 

 three acres situate- in the fielde or crofte on the north side of 

 Carewe bridge sometimes belonginge to a tenement in Newton 

 in the occupation of Henry Saunders consisting of errable or pas- 

 ture grounde . . . ; Item two acres in the saide feelde or croft 

 taken from the tenement wherein John woodes now dwelleth 

 beinge errable or pasture grounde . . . ; two acres in the saide 

 croft sometimes belonging to a tenement wherein Richard Bo wen 

 now dwelleth of like errable or pasture grounde." ^ 



Near by, at Sagestown, certain lands of the queen were thus 

 described by the surveyors : — 



" John Benion occupieth the tenemente and xvii acres parcell 

 of the saide xxv acres; and as to viii acres, the residue, iiii of them 



' Land Rev., M. B. 260, ff. 217, 2196. 



