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terra arabilis iacens in campo vocato Bryii y gwyddal continens 

 iiii acras." ' 



In the rather long account of the lands held by lessees in the 

 manors Hendre, Rosfaire, and Mardreff, in the Anglesey commot 

 of Menai,' one may find holdings which comprised, for example : — 



** Domum mansionalem . . . cum parvo crofto . , . et 

 Sex parvas clausas continentes per estimationem ix acras 

 Sex alias parcellas terre arabilis iacentes in gallt Beder conti- 

 nentes per estimationem i acram 

 Tres aUas parcellas terre arabilis iacentes in carreg y gwydd 



continentes per estimationem i acram i rodam 

 Unam aliam parcellam terre arabilis ibidem iacentem iuxta 

 viam ad Carnarvon continentem i rodam." ^ 



The holdings in general inclined, much as did this one, to have 

 parcels in three or four localities, called kesu mawr, kesu bychan 

 gallt bedr, and carreg y gwydd. It is not clear whether the first 

 two were hamlets or fields; but carreg y gwydd is once called a 

 " campus," * and five times acres are said to lie " sparsim " in 

 gallt bedr} These two areas were thus presumably characterized 

 by intermixed ownership, eight tenants having parcels in carreg 

 y guydd and seventeen in gallt bedr^ Some intermixture of parcels 

 in Anglesey thus seems demonstrable, although we learn nothing 

 about the shape of the parcels, their relation one to another, or 

 the method by which they were tilled. The character of the 

 open field is far from clear, and the descriptions of the free- 



1 Land Rev., M. B. 205, f. 135. ' Ibid., f. 30. 



2 Ibid., ff. 25-30. ^ Ibid., f. 28. 



* e. g., " Sex parcelle terre arabilis iacentes sparsim in gallt beder continentes ii 

 acras." 



^ The areas in acres were as follows: — 



carreg y gwydd, 3 (" acras terre arabilis iacentes sparsim "), i, 2, 8 (7 par- 

 cels of arable, f, 5, if (4 parcels of arable), 2f 

 gdlt bedr, 3 (i parcel), 3 (6 parcels of arable), 2 (3 parcels of arable " spar- 

 sim "), 2 (5 parcels of arable), i (6 parcels of arable " sparsim "), 1 (2 

 parcels of arable), 5 -|- i (7 parcels of arable) -|- i (meadow), i (2 par- 

 cels " sparsim "), i (6 parcels of arable), 2 (6 parcels of arable " spar- 

 sim "), ?, ^, 4 (8 parcels of arable), i (6 parcels of arable), 2 (4 parcels 

 of arable), 2 (6 parcels of arable "sparsim"), 3 (5 parcels of arable 

 " sparsim "). 



