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each township lay in closes, often many in number. The excep- 

 tion was the township of Altham in the parish of Whalley, where 

 the glebe lands comprised a long Hst of open-field seHons.' A note 



^ Exch. K. R., M. B. 40, ff. 40 sq. The description runs as follows: — 



" Now followeth ye parsonage Gleabe of Whaley lying within ye towneship of Alvetham alias 



Altham, viz: 

 Item ... in a feild of the Eyes toward Simonston certaine lands called Calved Eyes 



with a parcell betwene the divisions of the waters 

 Item in the same Eyes towards Alvetham alias Altham, certaine lands called little Eyes 



ncere the Milldam . . . and so descending into Calder 

 Item at a place called the Bronckhouses a Mesuage which sometimes Adam of Aspden 



held 

 Item there nere the greene gate fower Selions butting upon the way 

 Item in the same fcild in a certaine place called the farthings fower selions 

 Item in the same feild a selion like to a headland nere the house which sometime John of 



Boncke held 

 Item nere the said mesuage si.x selions butting upon the said messuage 

 Item in the same feild two selions 



Item in the Mitthom twoo selions nere the syke with meadou in both the ends 

 Item in the west parte of Nether East feild a Selion with a geron towards the west . 

 Item in the same feild six selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the Over east field xi selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the feild of Hoghton in the Blackcroft xviii selions iacentes divisim amongst 



percells of the oxegangs 

 Item in the same feild six Butts iacentes divisim 



Item in the same feild of Hoghton at the Rishy flatt thirteene selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the same field ten selions iacentes simul which is called the Barriers 

 Item in a certaine feild called the Hanflatt contayning in length xxxvii selions and on 



the other side ix selions with a way lying to the said feild toward the wood 

 Item in the same field of Hoghton the WalUands conteyning xi selions and in another 



place in the same feild xxi selions 

 Item in the feild above the Hall a mesuage which is called Hannehousteed and four 



selions extending themselves from the said mesuage to the Bame of the Mannor of 



Altham 

 Item a certaine place called Hannecroft in the same feild conteyning six Butts 

 Item on the west parte of the Mannour a certaine Messuage which Roger de Ornesden 



sometime held with all Selions abutting upon the said Mesuage and two selions whose 



ends are extended neere the said Messuage 

 Item in the feild of Milnecroft two Selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the feild of Lordshall six Selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the feild of Tonnested twenty-one Selions iacentes divisim 

 Item there at the Hartstalgreve and Firme ten Selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the Nethertonnsted xi selions iacentes divisim 

 Item in the West Eyes xvii selions with three Butts and a geron 

 Item beyond the water towards Reved five selions iacentes divisim 

 Item a certaine Mesuage on the east part of the Mesuage with the priests house 

 Item in the Brichholme a certain Croft 



Item a certaine place neere the Manner gate for a Tyth bame 

 Item in the greate meadow under the Lords hill in the East part of the said meadow 



in breadth Ixiii feete lying together whose longitude is extended from the Lords hill 



to the Hay of the Kerre 

 Item in the middle of the same feild from a part of the old Cawsey xxvii feet in latitude 



and from the other part of the said Cawsey xviii feet in latitude extending itself in 



longitude as before 

 Item further in the same feild toward the west two Selions 

 Item in the same meadow toward the Meneeage the moytie of all that parcell called 



the Meneeage dividing it equally with the Lord altemis vicibus 



