l8o ENGLISH FIELD SYSTEMS 



Usually the " communi " is omitted and " in campo " occurs 

 alone.^ Nine other tenants resembled the two mentioned in 

 ha\ing a few acres or selions in the fields of Wrexham Vaur.^ 

 Since closes are sometimes included in the areas given, the total 

 amount of open-field arable at Wrexham cannot be exactly deter- 

 mined. It comprised about one hundred selions, varying in 

 size from fV to " of an acre, and it can hardly have exceeded 

 sixty acres. The amount is not large for the middle of the six- 

 teenth century, nor can it, of course, have increased by Norden's 

 time. 



In the survey of Pickhill and Siswick the term " butts " for 

 the most part replaces " seliones," and each butt contained from 

 a quarter-acre to a half-acre.' Of the two holdings which incline 

 most to open arable field, one has about one-fourth of its area so 

 described, the other about one-half.'* Elsewhere in the survey 



^ For example, " William ap Maddoc et Robert ap David ap Gruff ap Robert " 

 held three messuages, three closes containing eleven acres, and " xiv seliones terre 

 iacentes in campo ville predicte [Wrexham Vaur] continentes iii acras terre " (Land 

 Rev., M. B. 249, f. 726). 



2 Their holdings comprised the selions of the preceding note, together with the 

 following eight entries: — 



" ii acras terre in diversis selionibus . . . et unam sellionem 



ii Eruas terre continentes dimidiam acram et unam rodam 



vii seliones terre . . . continentes per estimationem vi acras terre arabilis 



viii seliones terre . . . continentes iv acras terre 



quinque clausas et xii seliones . . . continentes ... vii acras terre . . . 



et vii seliones [no area] 

 cum octo clausis et diversis sellionibus . . . continentibus per estimationem 



XX acras terre 

 v selliones [no area] 



xii selliones continentes per estimationem vi acras terre " (ibid., fif. 65-74). 

 ^ Ibid., ff. 124-130. 

 * The two are as follows: — 



" Jenkyn ap Jenn ap David nativus ut dicit tenet ibidem unam ceparalem 

 clausam pasture vocatam Ibryn Istrowe alias Stonyclose continentem per 

 estimationem iii acras pasture 

 et unam clausam prati continentem ii acras et dimidiam ibidem 

 ac unam aliam parcellam terre arabilis vocatam Estymarowe continentem 



per estimationem iiii acras pasture 

 Et V butts iacentes in Kay Jenkyng continentes i acram terre 

 et iii butts in dole Sesw>'ke continentes i acram 

 et iiii butts iacentes in dole Seswyke 

 et vi butts iacentes ibidem continentes ii acras et dimidiam terre arabilis 



