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noteworthy. The parcels were not large, ranging from one to 

 four acres and averaging about two acres. Their areas are ac- 

 curately estimated even to " sulci " (furrows). They lay for the 

 most part " in campo," " in medio campi," " in medio culture " 

 (once), '' in medio pasture." ^ The sulci occur in connection with 

 campi, an intimation that the latter were arable; and, when in 

 one instance it was necessary to estimate a small piece of pasture, 

 this was done in '' pedes." The campi can hardly have been con- 

 terminous with the parcels, else why " in medio campi " ? To 

 remove doubt, the fine shows that the 3^ acres " in campo qui 

 vocatur Bromueld " were in two parcels, one of them being " in 

 medio campo de Bromfelde." The parcels of arable, then, lay 

 within larger fields, and, although these are not expressly said 

 to have been unenclosed, they probably were so. The terrier 

 establishes the existence in northern Kent, in the thirteenth 

 century, of holdings constituted in part of small non-adjacent 

 parcels of arable. 



The descriptive detail of the fine just quoted emphasizes what 

 has already appeared in other terriers and surveys as a Kentish 

 characteristic — the location of the parcels of a holding in a 

 bewildering number of field divisions bearing local names and giv- 



et quattuor acras et imam perticatam terre in medio campi qui vocatur 



Osmundesteghe 

 et unam acram et dimidiam perticatam et quinque sulcos terre versus aqui- 



lonem in campo qui vocatur Reteghe 

 et unam acram et tres perticatas terre in medio pasture de Potynberegh 

 et duas acras terre que iacent versus Potynberegh cum situ unius mo- 



lendini 

 et unam perticatam et dimidiam et tres sulcos terre in medio culture qui 



vocatur Shortestiche 

 et dimidiam acram et six sulcos terre versus occidentem hortfurlong 

 et dimidiam acram et decem sulcos terre versus orientem in valle sub Knolle 

 et unam perticatam terre in crofta extra portum versus campum qui iacet 



sub Chimyno qui vocatur Drove 

 et tres acras bosci de Berfreston qui iacet versus aquilonem 

 et quintam bestiam cum bestiis predictarum [two women holding in dotem] 

 in pastura de forestal ante magnam portam curie de Berefreston " (Ped. 

 Fin., case 96, no. 276). 

 1 The parcels " in medio pasture " are puzzling. It may be that old arable 

 campi were at the time used as pastures, or it may be that pastures had been 

 allotted among the tenants and that the latter could utilize their parcels by means 



