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that emphasizes the importance of the selion as an agrarian unit. 

 Strips described in this way were often located by furlongs, as 

 in a midland terrier. A specification of ten of them at Claverton 

 in the time of Edward I illustrates both characteristics.' Some 

 selions lay in furlongs, others in fields, while still others, after a 

 fashions prevalent in northwestern England, lay in areas named 

 " Ulvesdale " and the " croft of Claverton." 



Another feature of thirteenth-century Cheshire charters, more 

 striking than either of those just mentioned, becomes apparent 

 in a description of lands transferred at Newton-near-Chester. 

 Twenty-one and one-half selions " in campis eiusdem villae " are 

 characterized as follows: — 



" Tres seliones que vocantur le Cleylondes 

 tres sehones que vocantur le styweylondes 

 duas sehones que vocantur le Schouelebradlondes 

 unam selionem que vocatur le longhevedlond 

 dimidiam selionem que vocatur le Cleyhalflond 

 unam selionem que vocatur le Brocstanlond 

 unam selionem que vocatur le loustynghevedlond 

 unam selionem que vocatur le Cleyhevedlond 

 unam dimidiam landam lacentem iuxta eandem Cleyheved- 

 lond 

 duas sehones que vocantur le Putlondes 

 duas sehones que vocantur le Bradelakelondes 

 et tres dimidias sehones in Fregrene 

 unam selionem que vocatur le st}^'eylond 

 unam sehonem que vocatur Edmundislond 

 unam sehonem que vocatur le Schoterdichehevedlond 



1 Add. Char. 50008. The specification runs as follows: — 



" Decim seliones terre iacentes in campis de Claverton, viz: 

 duas dimidias seyliones In Ulvesdale 

 et unam seylionem iacentem super le stonihulle 

 et unam seylioaem iacentem super le Lowe 

 et unam seylionem extra le Lowe lacentem in Brerifurlong 

 et unam seylionem lacentem in crofto de Claverton 

 et duas seyliones Iacentes in le Cruftinge 

 et duas dimidias seliones Iacentes in le Wythines 



et duas dimidias seliones Iacentes supra le Leefeld iuxta campum de Ekleston 

 et unam dimidiam seylonem Iacentem In Longefurlong 

 et unam dimidiam seylonem lacentem iuxta Swartingesfeld." 



