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Despite the bracketing, this arrangement scarcely bespeaks three 

 fields. Even if " ye corner " be added to Frontley Feild, the sum 

 of the acres is not half so great as the area of the last group. 

 Two other items from Weston seem decisive. In a rental of 1 1 

 Charles II there is mention inter alia of 



*' Dimidium unius virgate terre vocate Bondsland in a feild 

 called Lince Feild [and] 

 Unum aliud dimidium virgate knowne by the name of Da- 

 viesland iacentis in severall parcells liing in Lince Feilde 

 aforesaid." ^ 



Since half-virgates in three-field townships do not usually lie 

 entirely in one field, we must conclude that the township of 

 Weston marks the transition from the midland area, as repre- 

 sented by Lannock manor, to the region of irregular fields. 



Adjacent to Weston are Clothall and Ardeley, the latter lying 

 farther down on the southern slope. A terrier of the manors of 

 Kingswodebury and Mundens, situated in these two parishes, is 

 dated 5 Edward VI.^ The demesne, which lay very largely in 

 Clothall, consisted of 452 acres of '' londs, medowez, Fedyngs, 

 wods, and pasture," together with 



" erable londes in Sheldon felde in the 



parishe of Clothall 28 acres in 8 parcels 



erable acres of lond in the Westfield 



of Clothall" 38^ acres in 13 parcels. 



The manors comprised also " londs in the occupation of Thomas 

 hawez," which with the exception of some 20 acres lay in the par- 

 ish of Ardeley. The Ardeley acres were located indifferently in 

 fields or furlongs, the terms being apparently interchangeable.^ 

 At Clothall and Ardeley, as in the other townships along thesouth- 



1 Add. MS. 33575, i- 3^5- 



2 .\dd. MS. 33582, ff. 4-9- 



' Netherw>'kdane furlong, ^, ^, ^, 5, f acres; Snaylesdel, 5; Lodley felde, \, §, 

 5, I, I, 3^, 5, one pightell; Brokefeld (or furlong), ^, 2, one little pightell; Docke- 

 lond, I, I; Scalfurlong, f, 5; Depewellshott, i, i, \; Holmshot furlong, |, ^, I, 5, \; 

 Newellfeld, f; Hoggyswelfurlong, j, ^, \; Asthill (furlong or field), i, ^, ^, |, j 

 (meadow); Banbery feld, 15, 5, i§; Kybwellfeld, i, f, i; Rybrade, i (a headland); 

 Scotesden furlong, i ; Colecrofte, [?]. 



