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Glebe terriers drawn up a century earlier (about 1704) illus- 

 trate at length these descriptions.' Sometimes the parcels of 

 the glebe were not numerous and comprised but few acres. At 

 Addingham there were 75 acres in five parcels, at Hay ton 65 

 acres in four parcels, at Castle Carrock 7j acres in seven parcels. 

 Elsewhere parcels were more numerous and the total areas 

 greater. At Hutton-in-the-Forest twelve parcels contained i8| 

 acres; at Melmerby (besides 12 acres enclosed) twenty-two par- 

 cels contained 14 acres; at Skelton thirty-one parcels contained 

 32 acres. Typical of these terriers, and instructive as to the 

 size of the strips, the subdivision of them into riggs, and the 

 names of the open-field areas in which they lay intermixed, is 

 the description of the glebe at Orton.^ Apart from parcels of 

 moss and rights of pasture over the moors, the parson had sixty- 

 three riggs and one butt of arable, with various small pieces of 

 meadow at the ends of these and certain raines or strips of turf 



' See Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Archaeol. Soc, Trans., new series, 1910, 

 X. 1 24 sq. 



^ Ibid., 1893, xii. 137 (also new series, 1910, x. 124). The specifications run 



as follows: — 



" In the West field in the Croft ii Riggs with a Head Rigg, 3 acres [This parcel and each 



following one is bounded.] 

 In Low Croft or East Roods 4 Riggs with a Raine between them and a piece of 



Meadow at the North End, i acre 

 In the West Roods 4 Riggs, one acre . . . with a rigg of John Robinson's between them 

 At the Croft Head two large Riggs . . . i acre 

 At the Parson's Thorn two long Riggs, one acre . . . 



In Crossland two Riggs, i acre . . . with a piece of Meadow at the South end . . . 

 In the Shaws three Riggs, one acre with a piece of Meadow at the low end . . . 

 In the Organ Butts two small Riggs, half an acre . . . 



In Inglands two Riggs, one acre with a small piece of Meadow at the low end . . . 

 In Sheep Coats two Riggs, one acre with a broad Raine between them and a piece of 



Meadow at the low end . . . 

 In Crabtreedale two Riggs, one acre with a piece of Meadow at the low end of them . . . 

 In Grayston Butts two Riggs, half an acre . . . 

 More in Grayston Butts two Riggs, half an acre . . . 

 In the Shaws more two Riggs, half an acre . . . 



Glebe in Orton Rigg Field. In ye West end four Riggs, half an acre . . . 

 At the Parson's Lees eight Riggs , : ., two acres with a Daywork of Meadow at the 



North end 

 Glebe in Woodhouses Field 

 In Bredick two Riggs, half an acre . . . 

 Underbricks, a butt . . . 



Upon the Bank or Priest bush three Riggs with a piece of Meadow at the North end . . . 

 In the East Field four Riggs, three roods with a piece of Meadow at the North end . . . 

 In Great Orton Moss a large parcel of Moss 

 In the Flatt Moss another great parcel of Moss 

 Common of Pasture for all the Parson's cattle with four Dayswork of Turf upon all 



the Moors of Orton within the Parish." 



