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Alan de Syk i^, Robert de Hill E. 



Alexander de Sco 2 , Robert Koc E. 



Robert filius Willielmi 



Webbester 10 poles, Robert Koc S. 



From this description it is pretty clear that many of these 

 parcels lay not only in the same field but also side by side. Such 

 were the parcels of Robert Koc and Osbertus Haraid, of Robert 

 Koc and Simon Cok, of Robert de Hyl and Alan de Syk. One 

 begins to suspect that the six acres of William Godhey's half- 

 eriung were after all not necessarily much separated one from 

 another. Since the Martham descriptions are somewhat incon- 

 clusive in this respect, we turn to another survey that furnishes 

 what is perhaps our best evidence relative to the appearance of 

 the original East AngHan villein tenementum. 



This survey, which is incomplete at beginning and end, relates 

 to Wymondham, a township southwest from Norwich, and is 

 written in a hand of the time of Henry VII. ^ Although many 

 descriptions are not detailed and others break off with the state- 

 ment that the residue of the tenementum is in the hands of the 

 lord, certain of them are, none the less, instructive. The tene- 

 menta were by no means so subdivided in the fifteenth century 

 as were those at Martham in the thirteenth. If this should lead 

 one to suspect that no great period of time had elapsed since 

 they were in the hands of their original tenant, the suspicion 

 would be dispelled by the discovery that not one of the existing 

 tenants of a tenementum bore its name as his surname, after 

 the manner of the Knights who continued to share in Thomas 

 Knight's eriung at Martham. The tenementum here, as there, 

 probably goes back at least to the thirteenth century. More 

 ancient than that it can scarcely have been, if we may judge from 

 such names as Toly, Crisping, Caly, and Davys. 



The novel feature about these Wymondham tenementa is that 

 they can in some instances be shown to have been nearly com- 

 pact areas: — 



" Tenementum Toly iuxta Grishaugh continet i mesuagium, 

 xi acras, iv Rodas terre . . . Unde 



1 Land. Rev., M. B. 206, £[.188-215. 



