2l8 ENGLISH FIELD SYSTEMS 



closely followed by a similar terrier describing a holding of 28 

 acres, the parcels of which are located with the same exphcitness 

 in the same field divisions.* Apparently the husbandlands of a 

 Northumberland township in the fifteenth century shared in all 

 furlongs after the manner described at Long Houghton a century 

 later,* and this without reference to any three-field arrangement. 

 In contrast with the rather impressive bulk of negative evi- 

 dence in the early terriers pointing to the non-existence of the 

 midland system in Northumberland, a few items seemingly sug- 

 gestive of it deserve notice. In a terrier of a half-carucate at 

 Whalton the 52^ acres "in campo ejusdem villae" are described 

 in such order that, if the first two items be added together, four 

 thirteen-acre groups result. It is noteworthy, however, that the 

 name of only one field appears, that the half-carucate consisted 

 of five relatively large blocks of land rather than of scattered 

 strips, and above all that four of these blocks lay to the west of 

 the village, two of them being carefully located in the West field.' 



Et super le Mesiway super ean^em i roda 



Et ex parte oriental! le lonynghed i roda 



Et super Aldchestre ex parte australi iii rodae 



Et ex parte occidental! super le Stobithom i roda 



Et super Morelaw ex parte oriental! ejusdem . . . dimidia acra 



Et ex parte borial! de Dueldrigge dimidia acra 



" " " orientali le Smythehopside dimidia acra 

 Et in medio Craustrige dimidia acra 

 Et ex parte orientali de Westraustrige i acra 

 Et super Estraustrige ex parte occidentali i roda 

 Et ex parte orientali Fartirmerethome . . . i acra 



" " " australi terrae praedictae i roda 

 Et inter Faltermere et lez Merlpottes i acra 

 Et ex parte boriali lez Merlpottes i roda 

 Et in medio Waynrig iii rodae 

 Et ex parte orientali le Brereryg i roda 



" " " orientali lez Hudesrodes i acra 

 Et inter lez Komhilles i roda 

 Et in medio le Milnrig dimidia acra 

 Et super Fulrig iii rodae 

 Et in Swynbume-feld ex parte boriali le crosse i acra." 



1 Raine, Priory of Hexham, ii. 32. 



2 Cf. above, p. 208. 



' Raine, Priory of Hexham, ii. 39. The description runs as follows: — 



" Tenent etiam in campo ejusdem villae dimidiam carucatam terrae, viz., Iii acras terrae 

 et dimidiam, quarum 

 Super Lindeslawe ex parte occidentali ejusdem villae iacent iiii acrae 

 Et super le Flores ex parte occidentali prope dictas acras ix acrae 

 Et in le Westfeld inter Walwyk et Leverchild xiii acrae vocatae le Burnflatt 

 Ex parte australi molendini ibidem xiii acrae 

 Et super le Famelaw ex parte orientali villae ejusdem xiii acrae." 



