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lie togcathers in an open fielde on the easte side of the said town- 

 shippe of Sageston havinge the highway that leadeth from Carewe 

 to temby on the south side; two other acres lie togeathers in the 

 same fielde neare a place called the haies, these vi acres are 

 pulled from the forsaide tenemente and are anexed to a tenemente 

 in the occupation of one griffith Froine; one acre and a half lyinge 

 togeathers in the said fielde nowe holden by John Gibbe and 

 John Thomas; One acre the residue lyeth in a fielde on the 

 weste side of Sagiston neare the church way taken from the said 

 tenement and anexed to the demaine lands of the castle. . . . 

 Memorandum, insteade of the vi acres annexed to Froines 

 tenemente . . . there is vi other acres taken from the saide 

 froines tenement and added to the demaines of the castle they 

 lie in the fielde on the west side of Sagiston neare the church way 

 beinge errable or pasture. . . . " ^ 



Of these parcels in New Shipping and Sagestown it will be 

 noticed that the second group, once open, had been enclosed 

 upon consolidation, that the last group apparently still lay in 

 open field, while the first and third groups had lain intermixed in 

 fields already enclosed. These two groups show that inter- 

 mLxture of tenants' parcels in Wales does not necessarily imply 

 that the parcels in question were in open field. Strips of more 

 than one tenant sometimes lay within the same close. It will 

 be noticed further that the intermixed parcels above described as 

 newly enclosed were arable or pasture. The situation is one 

 which could as well have arisen from the subdivision of a close of 

 arable or pasture among several heirs as from the enclosure of an 

 open field. 



If in any particular Pembrokeshire survey which has come 

 down to us we try to discover the number and extent of the open 

 fields or of the closes containing intermixed parcels, we shall find 

 only a few of them. In the survey of St. Florence, made in 1609, 

 much land is described as pasture or enclosed arable, while only 

 the following field names recur more than twice, with parcels of 

 the size indicated held in each place by different tenants : ^ — 



^ Land Rev., M. B. 260, f. 222. 



' Land Rev., M. B. 206, ff. 227-243. The areas are in acres. 



