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cent to " Kirkeland " or to " Wynncfoth," which were in turn 

 connected by the fourth parcel. If we knew that the terrier 

 referred to a tenant's holding, we should have clear evidence 

 bearing on the segregation of parcels. That we do not points 

 to our need of terriers that describe bovates, the unit in which 

 lands were rated in Cumberland. 



Happily such terriers are available from five townships. At 

 Melmorby, in the eastern mountains, the bovates were undivided 

 plats. One is described as " illam bovatam quae iacet propin- 

 quior terrae Adae filii Henrici versus orientem";^ two others 

 are " illas quae iacent inter terram Beatae Mariae Karleoli et 

 Littilgilsic." ^ Near the western coast at Blencogo much the 

 same plat-like character must have pertained to " duas bovatas 

 terre . . . iacentes propinquiores porte ex occidentali parte 

 ville." ^ Since, however, the two had been given as a dower 

 {in liberum maritagiuni) and were not accompanied by mes- 

 suages, they may have been demesne lands. At the mountain 

 hamlet of Caber two bovates are somewhat similarly described, 

 about 1240, as comprising one parcel of land probably rather 

 large, three professedly small, and a parcel of marsh.* From 

 War^vick, whence we have already had the terrier of the Wetheral 

 lands in 1455, comes the description of a bovate which was given 

 to the priory soon after 11 75. It consisted of " quinque acras 



Item dimidia acra iacet in fridaylandes et extendit se . . . a bercaria usque ad . . . 



Kirkeland . . . 

 Item una acra et septemdecim perticate iacent iuxta Bercariam . . . inter terram que 



vocatur Wynnefoth el . . . Kirkeland 

 Item una crofta . . . que continet in se unam acram et sex perticatas iuxta . . . 



Kirkeland 

 Item tres acre et tres Rode et dimidia iacent inter Bemardhou et Brezhou et extendunt 



se in longitudine de Wynnefoth usque ad seberth." 



^ Prescott, Register of Wetherhal, p. 289. 



2 Ibid., 291. 



' Harl. MS. 3911, f. 57^ (an early fourteenth-century copy). 



* " Totam terram a superiori parte Mussae ad Neubussehill sicut le silkette 

 descendit a predicta Mussa usque ad viam ad Surflatende et sicut dicta via tendit 

 usque . . . [etc., bounded at length], et in Bacstanegyle et in Bochum duas acras 

 et dimidiam, et quandam partinunculam terrae quae vocatur le Gare . . . et ab 

 angulo fossati de Conununa duas acras terrae in latitudine versus Mussam . , . 

 et totam meditatam Marisci Scalremanoch versus meridiem " (Prescott, Register 

 of Wetherhal, p. 283). 



