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In the half-iugum Ammyng [specification is only by quality of 



land], 

 olim Thome Chitcrenden, terra optimi precii, i acre, 3 



roods; terra medii precii, i rood 

 que fuerunt Simmonis de Tonge, terra optimi precii, 35 



acres; terra medii precii, i acre; pastura, 25! acres 

 quondam Gilberti Mogge, terra optimi precii, 3 roods; 



terra medii precii, ^ acre; pastura, i^ acres 

 que fuerunt Stephani Mogge, terra optimi precii, ^ acre; 



terra medii precii, \ acre; pastura, 2f acres 

 que fuerunt heredum Johanis Mogge et Hamonis Mogge, 



terra optimi precii, i^ acres; terra medii precii, i acre; 



pastura, 4I acres. 



The " former tenants " here mentioned should be compared 

 with those who appear in the first part of the description of 

 " iugum de Clyt et Forwerde." ^ One-half of this iugum had 

 come into the hands of Hamo German, his ten parcels having 

 formerly been held by nine tenants, only one of whom bore the 

 name of German. Since the names of the former tenants are 

 clearly remembered, the accumulation seems to have come about 

 somewhat recently. From phenomena like this we discover that 

 the situation pictured in the survey was not one of long standing, 

 and perceive that a iugum might come to be transformed from 

 an area shared by many tenants into one held by two or three. 

 Enclosure would readily attend upon consolidation, and by the 

 sixteenth or seventeenth century a county largely enclosed would 

 be a natural result. 



If tendencies toward consolidation are discernible in the 

 " iugum de Clyt et Forwerde," none the less were there tenden- 

 cies in the opposite direction. Four of the eight tenants were not 

 individuals but groups, and the group in each case consisted of 

 the heirs of a former tenant. Even if this man's parcel had been 

 not larger than an acre and a half, it passed to his heirs jointly. 

 In the half-iugum Foghelchilde five of the twelve tenants were 

 groups of heirs. Since the situation was not different with the 

 other iuga at Wye, the actual tenants there must have been 



1 Cf. above, p. 289. 



