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una roda et dimidia atte Berwhe 

 una roda et dimidia iacent in campo vocato Dode- 

 ham." 

 In Sholdon: " una roda et dimidia iacent in loco vocato Kete- 

 wode 

 tres rode et dimidia iacent particulariter in campo 



vocato Scholdonesfeld 

 una acra et una roda iacent in duabus parcellis 



apud lyden 

 et predicta pastura pro quatuor vaccis iacet in 

 marisco vocato CoUosschepemerch. . . ." ^ 



Since the field names at Dale also occur in the survey of 

 14 James I as Long Tyght, Dodham, and Beere Tyght, the 

 conditions of the seventeenth century seem to be carried back to 

 the fourteenth. 



It is desirable, however, to secure testimony from parts of Kent 

 which do not consist mainly of downs. In a hand of Henry VIII 

 is written a survey of Sutton at Hone, one of the archbishop's 

 manors in the northwestern part of the county, some twenty miles 

 east of London and five miles from the Thames.^ The demesne, 

 which comprised 642 acres, was enclosed, but of the 424 acres 

 held by the freehold tenants at least 93 lay intermixed in 49 par- 

 cels in a half-dozen fields. These fields bore the names Church 

 Down, Southfeld, Northfeld, Battesdene, Bradfeld, Jordanes 

 Croft. Each of the last three was shared by only two tenants, 

 but elsewhere the subdivision was more complex. Southfeld was 

 divided among five tenants holding respectively in acres 2j in 3 

 parcels, 6f in 2 parcels, 4j in 3 parcels, 14 in 2 parcels, 29^ in 12 

 parcels (the 1 2 once having been attached to as many as four 

 tenements); Northfeld had four tenants, holding i, ^, f, li acres 

 (the last in 3 parcels) ; Church Down fell to three tenants, whose 

 ^cres numbered 2^, 4I in 2 parcels, and io| in 9 parcels. 



This distribution of a tenant's parcels throughout fields appears 

 quite as noticeably in an early sixteenth-century terrier of the 

 lands of the heirs of William Hexstall, Kt., at Hoo St. Mary's, a 



» Rawl. MS., B 335 (Reg. Hosp. St. Barth. Dovorie). 

 ^ Treas. of Receipt, M. B. 172. 



