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fourteenth-century cartulary of St. Augustine's abbey. In the 

 parish of St. Peter's 19^ acres lay in 9 parcels, each located be- 

 tween the lands of persons other than the owner (e. g., " due 

 acre iacent inter terram . . . et terrain ..."). At Chislett 4 

 acres in 3 parcels were similarly bounded, and other 4 in 4 parcels 

 were assigned to different fields.^ Finally, an extended terrier 

 of lands just outside of Canterbury, inserted in a fourteenth- 

 century hand in another register of St. Augustine's, describes six- 

 teen furlongs which constituted the " Tenura de Esther' infra 

 libertatem." ^ In each furlong are parcels, usually of | acre to 

 4 acres, held by various tenants of the archbishop of Canterbury, 

 the prior of Dover, and the abbot of St. Augustine's. There can 

 be Uttle doubt here about the existence of intermixed parcels, or, 

 considering the grouping by furlongs, about the existence of open 

 fields. 



This fourteenth-century evidence finds its prototype in thir- 

 teenth-century feet of fines. One of these, dated 21 Henry III, 

 so describes four acres and four roods in I wade, near the mouth 

 of the Medway, as to give the impression that they were 



' Cott. MS., Claud. D X, ff. 1046, 1346, 1626. The last enumeration is as 

 follows : — 



" Due acre et una perticata iacent in campo qui vocatur Herste 

 et tres perticate iacent in campo qui dicitur Meredale 

 et tres perticate iacent in loco qui dicitur Calespotle 

 et una perticata iacet in campo de teghe." 



2 Cott. MS., Faust. A I, ff. iotJ-io6. The following is the allotment of the 

 acres of the first six furlongs (A. A. = abbot of St. Augustine's, P. D. = prior of 

 Dover, A. C. = archbishop of Canterbury) : — 



