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Thomas Knyght alias Kette tenet dictum mesuagium, ix 



acras, iii Rodas terre . . . iaccntes iuxta Grishaugh 

 Ricardus Deynes tenet ii acras pasture inclausas . . . abut- 

 tantes . . . super Grishaugh versus austrum." . . . ^ 

 Here the entire tenement bordered upon " Grishaugh " and can- 

 not have been in more than two parcels at most. 



*' Tenementum Havercroft continet xiiii acras terre et bosci 

 cum mesuagio vacante, Unde 

 Thomas Caly tenet totum tenementum iacens in partrike- 



feld . . . 

 Edwardus Groote tenet inde ii acras terre in Cobaldisfeld." ^ 

 Six-sevenths of this tenement lay in " partrikefeld," a feature in 

 which it resembled one of its neighbors. 



" Tenementum Ricardi Aleyn continet i mesuagium edifica- 



tum et xxxii acras et dimidiam terre, Unde 



Galfridus Symond tenet dictum mesuagium ac xxvi acras et 



dimidiam terre, pasture, et subbosci in parkrykefeld . . . 



Johanis Caly tenet v acras terre ... in eodem campo . . . 



Thomas Cooke alias Blexter tenet unum inclusum infra 



mesuagium suum vocatum Benecroft . . . et continet 



i acram iii Rodas 



Item tenet unamRodam dicti tenementi iuxta Benecroft."' 

 Practically all of this tenement lay in " partrikefeld." Finally a 

 small holding is briefly dismissed as follows : — 



" Tenementum Pering continens iiii acras terre in una pecia 

 restat in manu domini." ^ 



These four illustrations, which are particularly comprehensible 

 since subdivision is slight and locations are traceable, make it 

 certain that the early tenementum was at times a nearly com- 

 pact area. Three of the above tenementa were relatively large, 

 and two of these lay almost entirely in a single '' field." Some 

 non-adjacent parcels there may, of course, have been in this field, 

 as descriptions of other tenementa imply was at times the case. 

 The twenty-four acres of " Tenementum Cobalds," for example, all 

 of which except two acres were held by Thomas Neker, lay " in 



1 Land Rev., M. B. 206, f. 208. « Ibid., f. 209. 



» Ibid., f. 210. * Ibid. 



