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ing little clue to the husbandry employed. Except that the par- 

 cels were usually small and lay to some extent intermixed with 

 those of other tenants, Kentish arrangements were in contrast 

 with those of the midlands. There was no grouping of parcels 

 into two or three, four or six, fields, with the total areas 

 approximately equal. Nor can it be readily discovered from the 

 surveys thus far noticed whether the parcels of a holding lay to 

 any extent grouped in one part of the unenclosed arable area 

 or whether they were scattered conscientiously throughout it. 



Most valuable for determining this point is a survey of Gilling- 

 ham, made in 26 Henry VI and preserved at th^ British Museum 

 in an incomplete nineteenth-century copy.^ Gillingham, on the 

 lower Medway near Rochester, has today assumed an industrial 

 character and has lost its early fields. The old survey, however, 

 arranges the tenants' holdings in iuga, and for each of these 

 gives boundaries and area. Since this is almost the only survey 

 which describes iuga by bounding them, a transcription of the 

 first thirteen boundaries is pertinent: — 



" lugum Foghell incipit ad communem viam ducentem inter 

 Renham et Gyllyngham versus South 



ad terram de Renham et ad salsum Mariscum de Gyllyng- 

 ham versus North 



et ad terram domine Alicie Passhele versus West 



et continet illud lugum xxiii acras. 

 lugum Cherlman incipit ad terram heredum Adamari Digges 

 vocatam Wynelyng versus West 



ad Regiam stratam ducentem inter Gyllingham et Ren- 

 ham versus South 



ad mariscum vocatum Thomas Innyng versus North 



et ad communem viam ducentem de Berwescrosse ad Twi- 

 delswelle versus East 



et continet illud lugum xxiiii acras iii rodas iii day. 

 lugum Fissher incipit ad campum vocatum Bradefeld versus 

 South 



of wattles or other temporary enclosures. The phrase " in medio campo " may 

 possibly be a variant of " in medio campi." 

 ' Add. MS. 33902. 



