lyS ENGLISH FIELD SYSTEMS 



containing respectively 3, 3, 2, 3, i^, ^, i, i, i, acres, and a ming- 

 ling of small j>arcels had been the result. Such intermixture does 

 not imply the existence of open field, since before subdivision 

 the areas may have been closes, and in two instances are said to 

 have been. Indeed, " parkes " and closes at Robeston were 

 numerous, a sign that the township was largely enclosed. Some 

 further intermixture of the same sort there may have been, 

 especially in the following localities, where acre- or fractional 

 acre-parcels were in the occupation of different tenants (except 

 in case of those connected by -{-): — 



Castlecroft, i, i^ (arable), i| (2 parcels), |, f, i, i| (2 

 parcels of arable), ^ 



at Two Acres and Little Two Acres, 1,1, 1,1, 1,2 (3 parcels). 



Stubby land, |, I, \ 



in or at Woostland, \ (arable), f , f , \, j, f (arable) 



Shortlands, 2, 2, f 



upon the Hill (arable), i -f |, |, 2I -f i\, 1, i\ (2 parcels), 



I "r 4 1 8 J 2 2 ~r I 4 



in the Vran (arable), 3 (3 parcels), i (2 parcels), |, i|, 3 (3 

 parcels), i (2 parcels). 

 At best, the total area of the tenants' parcels which were inter- 

 mixed at Robeston was probably not more than eighty acres. 

 This amount differs httle from that just estimated for St. Flor- 

 ence. Since these two Pembrokeshire townships, of all those 

 described in the Jacobean surveys, inclined most to intermixed 

 holdings, we may conclude that at the end of the sixteenth 

 century the county had its arable largely enclosed. Some inter- 

 mixed land was to be found; but at times it lay within closes, 

 and in certain instances it pretty clearly arose from the sub- 

 division of parcels among a group of tenants. It seems never to 

 have predominated in a township, and probably seldom exceeded 

 one hundred acres. 



From the Pembrokeshire surveys we may turn to those of Den- 

 bighshire in the northeast, especially to some that come from a 

 region in which the place-names are even less Welsh than those 

 of Pembrokeshire. This is a part of the valley of the Dee, ten 



