THE LOWER THAMES BASIN 



363 



and a group of strips the areas of which in acres are as fol- 

 lows : — 



Field 

 Divisions 



Ermersh 



Virgata Gilbert! 



et Johanis 



Morcok 



^x, 



1111 



2) 11 S) 4> 



1111 



8> 2) 2) 4 



Southcroft 



Northcroft 



Burgcroft . 

 Hillarshe . . 



Miscellaneous' 



' I pecia prati 

 I pecia terre 



arabilis 

 I, \, 2^ (en- 

 closed) 



2,4.i,i,ipe- 

 cia 



a 5 



4) 8 



I pecia 



'^apudSidene-^ 



hill 

 i^ apud le 



Swell 

 I pecia iuxta 



grangiam 



Virgata 



Matildis 



de Bakehatn 



I, I 



Dimidia Virgata 



Williemi at Well 



de Inglefeld 



1 1 



8> 8 



Dimidia Dimidia 



Virgata Virgata 



Agnetis Johannis 



at WeU at Well 



1 1 



8> 4 



3 1 



8) 8 



fl Medilgrove 

 y s\ Langfur 



I J, 5 unspeci- 



I. fied 



L4 



2 pre- 

 presture" 



J 



Croftaincliisai ^«' ^*' « 



L ^ gravetta J 



44, 34 



I, 2 (terra et 

 bruerium) 

 J 4I (terra et 

 bruerium) 



if (terra et 

 bruerium) 



[h, 



> ii, I 



I, 61, 

 1 1 (pas- 

 [ tura) 



Pratum and 

 " more " 



I pratum, 

 3 more 



t1 a 



Every holding, it thus appears, comprised several enclosures, 

 but the largest part of each still consisted of parcels intermixed 

 with those of other men. Although the township Ues near the 

 Thames and the name Ermersh may suggest marsh land, most 

 of the unenclosed parcels seem to have been arable. Those of the 

 several holdings were very unevenly distributed among the field 

 divisions. The half-virgates had large parcels in Hillarshe, but 

 not. so the virgates; one holding had eight parcels in Southcroft, 

 another had five in Northcroft, the others not more than a parcel 



