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at the end of the list records that certain of the field names were 

 ancient and that enclosure had recently been in progress.^ 



As to the field system which underlay this elaborate descrip- 

 tion only tentative conclusions can be drawn. Since four mes- 

 suages appear, it is possible that three or four holdings were 

 thrown together. If the selions described between the first and 

 second messuages belonged to one holding, they lay very largely 

 in " the field of Hoghton." Here were 59 sehons and 6 butts, 

 whereas to none of the other five fields in this group were assigned 

 more than 11 selions, Hanflatt being probably a close. This im- 

 plies considerable segregation. After passing the second mes- 

 suage new fields appear, none of them containing very many 

 sehons, save Tonnested and Nethertonnsted with 21 and 11, 

 and West Eyes with 17. If, on the other hand, the messuage 

 succession has no significance and parcels in the same field 

 belonging to different messuages are thrown together, we can 

 only say about the field system that it seems to have been 

 entirely irregular. 



While Altham >delds only this terrier, Warton situated to the 

 west on the coast boasts a complete survey of 7 James I.^ En- 

 closed land is here carefully distinguished from common field, 

 the latter being said to lie " in communibus campis," or " in 

 Warton field," or "in le Townefield." Although an occasional 

 parcel of common meadow is singled out for specific location, 

 this almost never happens to the arable, except to eight parcels 

 " in le Bonetowne " and four " super le towne." The field 

 system cannot therefore be ascertained, and it only remains to 



Item in the furthest part of the said meadow which goeth towards the Milne croft in 

 the East part two selions lying neere the Lords hill with a certaine round parcell of 

 the same meadow nere the hedge of the same Selions 



Item in the west parte of the end of the said meadow a gereon and beneath that two 

 Selions 



Item at the Hartalstall greve ten Selions 



Item all the meadow of Altham in Symonston Eighes with all the errable there." 



1 " Item the said Jurors do further find present and say that the names of the 

 feilds aforementioned were the auncient names of the said feilds, but time hath 

 worne out those names and given them new names onely some of the auncient names 

 remaine at this day, viz: the Hoghtons, the Kerre, the Mitthom. Which Hogh- 

 tons were of late yeares divided into divers closes, and so the ancient longitude 

 and latitude of them doth not in any one feild continue at this day." 



2 Land Rev., M. B. 220, ff. 27-58. 



