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few in number, but, as the locations show, they were not widely- 

 separated; all the parcels except the last were connected in 

 one way or another with Stirap. Quitakedich, and the " aqua 

 de Broc," which three in turn were near one another. The 

 segregation which has been noted in Cumberland reappears. It 

 can also be traced to some extent at Preston in the eight parcels 

 which were transferred along with a burgage tenement and the 

 third part of a toft.' Apart from the meadow, an assart, and 

 a half-acre near the garden, the arable lay largely in Siclingmor 

 and Platfordale, with something in Aldefeld and at Sewallesike; 

 but how these areas were related we do not discover. Traces 

 of segregation are discernible, once more, in one of the longest 

 charters of the cartulary. From it we learn that the ten 

 acres which the abbey acquired at Newton comprised many 

 parcels, some of them described as seUons.^ Since 5I acres and 

 more than half of the selions lay in Otemaste and Wodebinde 

 furlongs, these two divisions of the open field contained more 

 than three-fourths of the ten acres conveyed. In fact, one of 

 them alone comprised about five acres, a predominance which 

 would not be met with in a normal midland terrier. 



Perhaps these descriptions may suffice to show that the 

 open fields of Lancashire had characteristics similar to those of 



et unam acram et dimidiam in alia divLsa . . . sequendo Quitakedich ... ad selliones 



de Stirap . . . 

 et duas acras terrae in alia divisa . . . sequendo . . . usque aquam de Broc . . . 

 et unam dimidiam acram in alia divisa super terram de Leye." 



1 Farrer, Chartulary of Cockersa?id Abbey, iii. pt. i. 217 (c. 1230-1255). The 

 parcels are described as follows: — 



" Totam terram in assarto meo . . . 



et quatuor partes terrae super Siclingmor [three parcels, each between the lands of 



other men] 

 et unam dimidiam acram super Aldefeld . . . 

 et tres perltijcatas terrae in Platfordale . . . 

 et unam dimidiam acram in Platfordale . . . 

 et dimidiam acram . . . iuxta orreum meum 

 et totam terram meam ex utraque parte de Sewallesike 

 et totum pratum meum inter pratum Adae albi et commune Karrum." 



2 Ibid., 17s (1262-1268). Except when otherwise specified, the following 

 areas are in acres: — 



" Super Otemaste furlong," J, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, 3 selions 



" sutler Wodebinde furlong," 1,1,4 half-selions 



" in suF>eriori parte viae quae ducit ad Singilton," s half-selions 



" in inferiori parte viae de Singilton," 2 " Tungas " 



" super le holderthe," 1 butt, 2 half-selions, i selion 



"^ super Karfurlong," 2 " Tungas." 



