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in Westcroft, et duas acras in Graistanflat, et unam acram iuxta 

 holm cum prato ad predictam terram pertinente." ^ These 

 four early bovate terriers show no marked distribution of par- 

 cels. One describes the acres as lying in five places (including 

 the marsh), another assigns them to three, while two terriers 

 imply that the bovates were consolidated. 



Different is the fifth terrier, superior to the others in that the 

 bovate which it describes was appurtenant to a messuage. The 

 land lay at Tallantire, and was granted to St. Bees late in 

 the thirteenth century. It consisted of twelve parcels, but 

 there is Httle indication how these were situated relative to 

 one another.^ Only two lay in the same area, Biggehove, the 

 others being in different furlongs. In the absence of descriptive 

 locations we cannot tell how widely these furlongs may have 

 been separated; but at least they formed a group distinct, with 

 one exception, from the group in which nine other acres in Tal- 

 lantire lay. The latter are described in a grant which appears 

 to have been contemporary with the other one, since to some 

 extent the names of the witnesses are the same; like the first, its 

 acres were attached to a toft and probably constituted a holding. 

 If such were the case, we have two tenements in the same township, 

 each comprising several parcels, but parcels which in only one 

 instance lay in the same furlong (Bighou).^ While this does not 



' Prescott, Register of Wetherhal, p. 121. 



2 The description (Harl. MS. 434, f. 161) runs as follows: — 



" Unam bovatam terre ad mensuram Rode viginti pedes continentis . . . cum tofto et 

 crofto integro et toto prato ad illam bovatam terre . . . pertinentibus . . . videlicet, 



in crofto duas acras et dimidiam rodam et quatuordecim perticatas 



apud biggehoue versus occidentem unam acram et unam rodam et quatuor perticatas 



ibidem versus orientem duas rodas et dimidiam 



apud thuahouel unam acram 



sub Wartheholis unam acram et unam rodam et vigintinovem perticatas 



apud routhelands unam rodam et tresdecim perticatas 



infra vias de Warthehol' et Karliol duas acras et unam rodam et dimidiam et quinque 

 perticatas 



apud heyberhe unam acram et viginti tres perticatas 



apud leuedibuthes dimidiam acram et quatuor perticatas 



ad Sandrig tres rodas et dimidiam rodam et octo perticatas 



ad hildirflath unam acram et unam rodam et dimidiam rodam et quatuordecim perticatas 



in cultura a molendino versus aquilonem in quinta et sexta selione 



versus orientem duas rodas et dimidiam et sexdecim perticatas." 



' Ibid., f. 1616. The description runs as follows: — 



" In crofto eiusdem domus tres rodas et octodecim perticatas 

 In hagwrinron cum prato ibi iacente quinque rodas et unam perticatam 



