THE KENTISH SYSTEM 29 1 



Unfortunately, as was noticed above, the iuga of Wye are not 

 bounded in the survey. To discover whether they were compact 

 areas, as were those at GiUingham and Newchurch, we have to 

 attend to the field-names used, and even then we can draw conclu- 

 sions only when the names are not too diverse. In the " iugum 

 de Clyt et Forwerde " more than one-half of the parcels and of 

 the area lay in East Walewaye; the remainder was pretty well 

 accounted for by East Brettegh, Gretefeld, and West Gretefeld. 

 Although no statement records that these four areas were contig- 

 uous, it is probable that they formed a block not unlike a iugum 

 at GiUingham. Sometimes the place-names within a iugum at 

 Wye were numerous, certain of them referring to parcels or crofts 

 which fell to individual tenants.^ But this circumstance need 

 not conflict with the conception of the iugum as a compact 

 area; it merely implies that such an area was divided into many 

 parts. 



As at GiUingham and Newchurch, the tenants of each iugum 

 at Wye were likely to be several in number; the first iugum 

 only was in the hands of a single proprietor. Furthermore, as 

 in the other surveys, a tenant usually had parcels in two or three 

 consecutive iuga; but in its greater concentration of the parcels 

 of a holding Wye resembled Newchurch rather than GilHngham. 

 Typical was the holding of John Baldewyne, whose parcels were 

 situated in three iuga as follows: — 

 In the half-iugum Mastall, 



in Weyberghe 2 acres, i^ roods 



in Tommestowne 3 roods, 8 day's-works 



in le Berghe 2 acres, i^ roods; 

 In the one and one-half iuga Chilcheborne, 



in Chilchebournesfelde \ acre, \ day's-work 



in piriteghe 2\ acres 



in Watertoune et in parvo gardino i^ rood; 



frumento domini. Et debit xvii averagia et tertiam partem unius averagii per 

 annum. Et debet inde de relevio cum accident xl d. Et debet sectam per 

 annum " (ibid., f. logh). 



' Ten place-names, as we have seen, were connected with the half-iugum of 

 Foghelchilde. Four tenants shared in Wolvenfeld and four in Strangelonde, but 

 ihe eight remaining areas, four of which were crofts, fell to individual tenants. 



