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since the survey takes pains to distinguish its enclosures/ and at 

 times states that a tenant's acres were scattered. ^ The con- 

 clusion, then, must be that, if a Cumberland hamlet had two 

 open fields, the acres of the holdings were not divided between 

 them but lay distributed throughout one of them. This implies 

 further that the dispersion of parcels was not very great, since 

 it was possible to gather all those of a holding within an area 

 described as one field. 



A similar situation is pictured in part of a description of the 

 manor of Bromfield entitled " The Survey of lands in Alenbye 

 now in the tenure of Jenet Shaw widoe and Michell fawcon." ^ 

 The first rigg which each tenant held is said to have lain in the 

 East field, and the four following riggs were presumably in the 

 same place. Thereafter one butt, two riggs, and two " Ing- 

 dailes " are definitely said to have been in this field, and the 

 location of only three butts is left uncertain. Without much 

 doubt the parcels of the two tenants lay almost entirely within 

 the so-called East field of Alenby. 



A like tendency toward segregation rather than wide distri- 

 bution of the parcels of a holding appears in certain glebe terriers. 

 At Hutton in the Forest the twelve strips of which the glebe 



1 For example, " John Gibson tenet unum tenementum et unam clausam eidem 

 ibidem adiacentem . . . continentem ii acras terre, prati, et pasture, et unam 

 peciam terre in South field.". 



^ Appurtenant to one holding was a messuage, an acre close, and eight acres 

 of arable, meadow, and pasture lying " diversim in campo ibidem vocato South- 

 field." 



^ Add. Char. 17163, i Eliz. The specifications run as follows: — 

 " Ayther of them one Rigg in the estefeyld called Ingdales 

 Ayther of them a Rigge called totteryge 

 Ayther of them another Rigge called lange smele Rige 

 Ayther of them one Rigge upon borwe 

 Ayther of them A wawcaye Rige 



Ayther of them one but in the same feyld called udge on butt 

 And Ayther of theym one Rige in the said feld called grige 

 Also Ayther of theym haith one Rige of medo lying in the este field in one plays called 



the mire Doyle conteyning by estimation two parts of one acar 

 Item two Ingdailes lying in the newe Inge in the same contening by estimation one half 



Acar belonging Evenlye betwyn the said tenants 

 Item Ayther of the sayd tenants haith one but called the crosse but, et Ayther of theym 



haith one wheat but lying on the weste syde of Alenbye mill 

 Item Ayther of them haith one Dryebut of the weste syde 

 Item Ayther of them haith one cowegate in the griflf Ing als leckryge 

 Also there is comen of pasture and turf graysce for there Rate of the comen of Alenbye." 



