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holds of these manors add little to our knowledge. Since in 

 them closes are sometimes designated as such, we may perhaps 

 be justified in inferring that parcels not so designated were unen- 

 closed and non-adjacent.^ Considered in its entirety, accord- 

 ingly, the evidence from Anglesey points to the existence there in 

 Jacobean days of holdings which consisted to some extent at least 

 of scattered parcels of arable lying in open fields. 



In other parts of Wales than those already considered traces of 

 open field are slight. The twenty-six tenants of the manor of 

 Eglowis Kymin in Carmarthen had in 7 James I only " parks " 

 or closes.^ In a survey of Gower and Kilvey, Glamorganshire, 

 made in 1665, there were many '* closes " and " parcels," but 

 little to indicate open field. Of doubtful significance are the 

 " three other parcells, called fields, leying intermixt with the 

 lands of the said George Lucas," containing three acres.^ In 

 the six large volumes of Car toe et alia Munimenta quae ad 

 Dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent, edited by G. L. Clark, we 

 find many descriptions of closes, but only two or three reveaUng 

 open fields. In the fief of Landbither four acres are specified, of 

 which 



1 A certain freehold, for example, consisted of a house, a garden, and " quatuor 



parcellas terre arabilis vocatis Cay pen y kevn insimul continentes . . . 

 V acras 1 perticatas 



unam parceUam terre et pasture, unam peciam vocatam cay bach, et alter- 

 am . . . iacentes super quandam clausam vocatam Cay y weyrglodd 

 continentes . . . ii rodas xiv perticatas 



imam parcellam terre arabilis vocatam y rerw dew continentem . . . i acram 



unam aliam parcellam terre arabilis iacentem in quadam Clausa vocata Cay 

 r llo continentem . . . i acram 



et aUam parceUam terre arabilis vocatam y dalarhir continentem . . . xxx 

 perticatas 



et aliam parcellam terre arabilis iacentem in loco vocato cay y felin continen- 

 tem . . . i rodam xxxv perticatas 



et clausam terre arabilis et pasture saxosam continentem . . . v acras 



et parcellam terre arabilis et prati vocatam bryn llin continentem in 

 toto . . . ii acras 



unam aliam parcellam terre arabilis iacentem in quadam clausa vocata 

 Penrhyn fadog continentem . . . ii rodas x perticatas " (Land Rev., 

 M. B. 205, f. 16). 



2 Land Rev., M. B. 258, f!. 1-17. 



' Archaeologia Cambrensis, Supplement of Original Documents, i. 270. 



