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suggest that here too there had been improvement of the waste 

 in which many tenants had shared. " Ling " is a term applied 

 to a common; ' Le Holmebushes bespeaks a brewery; Outelayer- 

 close is reminiscent of outfield. It is not improbable that at 

 Lazonby there was practiced the temporary appropriation of 

 cultivable land, perhaps followed by its reversion to waste — a 

 procedure suggested at Soulby and Fingland and well known to 

 Northumberland and Scotland. 



Although this characteristic seems discernible in Cumberland 

 tillage, the location of the acres of a holding one to another has 

 not yet become apparent. At Soulby the half-dozen acres of 

 each tenant's infield appear to have been consoHdated, since they 

 are described as having been " adjacent " to the tenements.^ 

 At Lazonby the undivided areas may have been similarly situ- 

 ated, but we cannot tell. A survey of Ainstable made in 19 

 Elizabeth assists a Uttle in elucidating this important point.^ 

 To each of the three constituent hamlets of " Southeranraw," 

 Ruckroft, and Castledyke it assigns some half-dozen tenants, 

 with holdings of about ten acres apiece in the respective hamlet- 

 fields; but regarding the position of these acres we learn nothing. 

 The remaining tenants seem to belong to the hamlet of Ain- 

 stable proper. Although sometimes the holdings here are not 

 located, at other times they are said to have lain largely in South 

 field or Kirk field. When this is the case, each was, except in one 

 instance, entirely within one or the other of these fields.^ Some- 

 times, too, the acres of a tenant of one of the other hamlets lay 

 wholly or partly in South field. Now, South field and Kirk 

 field were pretty clearly not hamlet-fields attached to different 

 hamlets, but were the two fields of a single township. Nor can 

 the acres which fell within them be looked upon as enclosed, 



^ Cf. below, p. 326. 



* Once the account adds that they lay to the south {ex auslro), once that they 

 were enclosed, twice that they were called Lyngarth. 



' Land Rev., M. B. 212, ff. 7-12. 



* In South field were three tenements of 5, 4I, and 4 acres respectively; in 

 Kirk field there were six containing in all 24 acres; one tenement had ij acres 

 in South field and 2 in Kirk field; another had 5 acres in Kirk field and 2 in Low 

 field; one tenement of 10 acres lay in Low field. The acres of six tenements are 

 not located. 



