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In the account of another holding of this manor occur 

 similar statements about intermixed parcels. The customary 

 tenement of Agnes Orchard included '' divers parcels of land 

 called lez S holes, lying in the common about the bounds called 

 lez londscores with the lands of WilHam Dyggen, customary tenant 

 of this manor, containing in all 30 acres of land in the common 

 of Idetordowne [Haytor Down]." ^ Perhaps the translation 

 should run, " divers parcels • . . lying in common " (if the orig- 

 inal is in communia). However that be, the significant item, 

 apart from the assertion that certain lands were intermixed, is 

 implicit in the phrase " lez londscores." In the same manor 

 Hugh Dyggen also held '' divers parcels of land lying together 

 about the Londscore next Idetordowne, containing in all 60 

 acres." ^ 



Explanation of the meaning of the phrase " lez londscores " is 

 to be had from an item relative to the Dynham manor of Wood- 

 huish in Brixham. Here, the survey notes, " the landes ... for 

 the most parte lyeth by londes score in twoe commen feldes." 

 The holdings were rated in ferlings, to each of which were 

 assigned some 27 acres of " arable land lying at large in the fields 

 and lez Breches^ Altogether there were 652 acres. ^ These state- 

 ments point clearly to open common fields in which parcels lay 

 intermixed, or " by londescore." The use of the latter phrase 

 at Ilsington, therefore, accords with the declaration that Agnes 

 Orchard's lands lay intermixed with those of William Dyggen. 

 Upon two of the twenty-five manors or estates of Lord Dyn- 

 ham which were situated in Devon and Cornwall we are thus 

 assured of the existence of common fields.^ At Woodhuish in 

 Brixham they were extensive, and Brixham, it will be remem- 

 bered, was that one of the Devonshire manors of the marchioness 

 of Dorset in which common fields have already been discerned. 

 Brixham and Woodhuish are adjacent townships lying on the 

 southern coast at the mouth of the river Dart. 



1 Devon. Assoc, etc., Trans., xliii. 279-280. 



2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., 281. 



* There were also " common meadows," as at Wilmington (ibid., 274). Nearly 

 aU the Dynham manors comprised wastes upon which the tenants had rights of 

 common. 



