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ern slope of the Hertfordshire hills, there is thus in the terriers 

 no trace of a three-field grouping. 



Leaving the hilly townships of the north and passing to the 

 more level region of the southeast, we come upon the large manor 

 of Ware, about which much information is given in a sixteenth- 

 century book of manorial jottings. If from this collection of court 

 rolls, rentals, and incomplete surveys we select three terriers of 

 typical copyholds,^ we shall find that the three had a common 

 interest in Wykfeld only. The first had two acres there, the last 

 four; but the other parcels of their open field lay disparate. 

 Most suggestive of the terriers is the second, in which all the acres 

 except two were in Breckelfeld, a proximity reminiscent of the 

 East Anglian system. 



1 " Robertus Forde . . . tenet sibi et heredibus suis . . . per copiam datam 



. . . Anno regni Regis Henrici VIII''' xxxvi*^" 



unum croftum terre vocatum Gallocroft continens . . . quinque acras 

 unam acram terre iacentem in Warefeld inter le borne et salmonscroft 

 et duas acras terre in Abelyingstok 



et duas acras terre iacentes in Wykfeld subtus wolkechen hedge 

 et unam acram terre iacentem apud waringehowgate 

 s et unam acram terre inclusam apud le gravel pytts." 



" Christoferus wright tenet per copiam curie datam xiii*'° die Junii anno secundo 

 Regis Edwardi vi'' 



unum tenementum vocatum Hills iacens et existens in Baldockstrete . . . 



unam acram terre in Brekelfeld iuxta le Claypitt 



unam aliam acram terra in eodem campo iuxta Dunsell crosse 



duas acras terre in eodem campo nuper Thome Peerse . . . 



tres acras terre in eodem campo abuttantes super le Peertre 



et duas acras terre in campo sive clausura iuxta wyken lane." 



The third terrier details the surrender, in 20 Henry VIII, into the hands of the 

 lady of the manor, of 



" unum tenementum cum gardino adiacenti apud werengo hill, 

 decem et octo acras terre arabilis particulariter in diversis locis iacentes, unde 

 quinque Acre iacent in duobus jjeciis in West feild 

 et quatuor acre terre in wykfeld subtus parcum domine 



et duo crofta insimul iacent et inclusa tenemento predict© Annexata continentia 

 novem acras terre insimul 

 cum tribus acris prati in parco de ware predicto 



ac tres acras terre in pippeswell field inter terram . . . et terram . . . 

 et unam acram prati in parke meade quondam Johanis Ostwyke . . . 

 unum pratum continens tres acras terre vocatum Sondlese. . . . 

 Ac unam peciam terre continentem quinque acras . . . iacentem apud Goodyerefeld 



inter Ripariam . . . et terram domine . . . 

 et quinque acras terre vocatas Lokeholme . . . iacentes inter Ripariam et Riponam . . . 

 Necnon decem acras terre subtus parcum domine in Dymershott 



ac etiam tres acras terre iacentes in wykfeild vocatas Ladymere " (Add. MS. 27976, 

 £f. 676, 89ft. 47)- 



