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To the survivals of common fields in the lordship of Bromfield 

 should be added slight traces found in the survey of the adjacent 

 manor of Ruthin.^ Although this is much concerned with mes- 

 suages and with small holdings which are nearly always enclosed, 

 common fields are mentioned two or three times.^ In a holding 

 at Llammirock there was appurtenant to a house and garden 

 '* terra arabilis in communibus campis vocatis tir y cech," the 

 tenant paying a total rent of 6 d. In Ruthin itself there was held 

 by lease a messuage, three closes containing eleven acres, and 



" terra arabilis in communi campo vocato Pantmigan continens 

 per estimationem xii acras 

 terra arabilis in predicto campo continens per estimatio- 

 nem ii acras." 

 In a survey so long as this one such common fields are almost 

 lost. 



Thus far only surveys from the Enghsh parts of Wales have 

 been examined. Nearly all hamlets in which intermixed parcels 

 have been found bear English names, and even in these the 

 amount of common arable was surprisingly small. One might 

 surmise that in purely Welsh surroundings no common fields 

 whatever were known. So far as our evidence goes, however, 

 the situation seems not to have differed from that already de- 

 scribed. A certain amount of intermixed ownership is visible in 

 places where it can scarcely be attributed to Enghsh influence. 



Best of the Jacobean surveys of Welsh regions are those from 

 Anglesey. Frequently these descriptions speak only of non- 

 committal " parcels," but occasionally we discover that the 

 parcels which constituted a holding lay scattered. Such was 

 the case with certain of the lands of John Lewys, armiger, at 

 CUviock, which are described as follows: — 



" ii parcelle terre arabilis sparsim iacentes in quodam campo 

 vocato Dryll y Castell . . . continentes ii acras v rodas 



ii parcelle terre arabilis sparsim iacentes in quodam campo 

 vocato Glodissa . . . continentes iiii acras . . . 



una parcella terre arabihs iacens in quodam campo vocato dol 

 Gledog continens iii acras et dimidiam 

 1 Land Rev., M. B. 239, ff. 125-181. ^ jbij,^ g, J67, 175. 



