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uniform, varying only between 40 and 46 acres. Several tenants 

 shared in each, except in " dola de Kyngessnothe," the whole of 

 which was held by the heirs of Jacob de Kyngessnothe. A ten- 

 ant sometimes had parcels in successive dolae or half-dolae. 

 Adam Osbarn had five parcels in one dola, four in another; the 

 heirs of Richard Pundherst had three acres in one, three and 

 one-half in another, and nine in a third — four parcels in all. 

 So far as the incomplete survey permits us to judge, the parcels 

 of a tenant did not He in many widely separated dolae, but in a 

 few adjacent ones. 



Additional information may be got from the extracts printed 

 in Appendix V. The parcels within each dola are named 

 and their areas given. Names usually differed, except that 

 a few parcels are said to have lain "in Holland"; the areas, 

 too, of the parcels were not such as to suggest open-field strips. 

 Both circumstances point to the absence of unenclosed arable, 

 an inference which is the more probable since the region in ques- 

 tion is in or near Romney Marsh. The system of iuga or dolae 

 was therefore consistent with one of plats, whether arable, marsh, 

 or pasture, and hence with one of enclosures. Yet if the parcels 

 were plats or enclosures, they were none the less, in the New- 

 church survey, often non-adjacent. So, indeed, the Newington 

 plan, which has already been reproduced, shows the plats there 

 to have been. Conditions of the late sixteenth century thus find 

 a parallel some two hundred years earHer. 



Other pecuKarities of the Kentish system we can best discover 

 by noting in connection with the Newchurch extracts the impK- 

 cations of another survey, perhaps the most satisfactory that we 

 have.^ It was made in the early fifteenth century for Thomas 

 Ludlow, abbot of Battle, and refers to the large manor of Wye, 

 situated in the center of the county. Except for its omission of 

 the boundaries and locations of the iuga, it is superior to the 

 GiUingham transcript, and it is more nearly complete and more 

 complex than the Newchurch record. 



The description, as usual, proceeds by iuga. At Wye these 

 units varied considerably in area, comprising from 37 to 187 



» Exch. Aug. Of., M. B. 56, ff. 108-188. 



