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divisions of the arable area. Whether this be the fault of the 

 maker of the survey or whether it points to the minor importance 

 of fields is difficult to say. A Brotherwick terrier from the sur- 

 vey of 1585 suggests the latter explanation.^ Most of the seHons 

 (excluding those recently held by Thomas Pinne) lay in North 

 field or in South field or adjacent to the " Lang-rigges." If all 

 those in the Kst which fall between North field and South field 

 be looked upon as lying in North field, the total much over- 

 balances the number left for South field. If, on the other hand, 

 the two fields stand independently toward the other areas, no 

 three-field grouping is apparent, even if " Lang-rigges " be 

 exalted into a field. 



A tendency to neglect division by fields in enumerating the par- 

 cels of a holding appears in one of the Northumberland surveys 

 which has been printed in full.^ The survey is concerned with 

 the open fields of two townships, Tynemouth and Preston, but 

 it is incomplete. Only such fields as are about to be re-allotted 

 receive attention. It is possible that all the unenclosed arable 

 at Tynemouth was redistributed, but of this there is no certainty. 

 If it was, only two fields. North and South, existed there and 

 they were somewhat unequal in area.^ The Preston fields are 

 confessedly not described in full. Only " so much as was now 

 presented to be divided " appears in the total, which comprised 



1 History of Northumberland, v. 258: — 



16 selions of arable land in the North field 

 14 south of the " Lang-rigges " 



4 in " Whyte-lees " 



3 " super le Lang-rigges " 

 2 " by the HaU-well " 

 10 in the South field 



5 " iuxta le snake hole " 



12 " in the Crokes, formerly held by Thomas Pinne ". 



2 " The Terraire or Accompt of Measure of certain Lands lying within the 

 Territories of the Mannor of Tinemouth and Preston, 1649," Archaeologia Aeliana, 

 new series, 1887, xii. 173 sq. ^ 



3 " Of the Particon of Tinemouth — 



Acres Roods Perches 

 The Quantity of the South Feild of Tynemouth i88 i 9 



The Brocks contains 30 2 20 



In the North Feild on the upper side of Monkseaton way 51 i 32 



In the North feild more East from that and more Northerly 206 i 30 " 



