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Elsewhere the parcels were larger, and might seem to have been 

 closes were it not that the field names and the assignment of 

 more than one parcel to the same field division reassure us. A 

 list of such parcels in the following terrier is illustrative of some 

 sixty pages of similar matter in the Walden cartulary, and es- 

 tablishes the existence of open fields at Saffron Walden, in the 

 upper valley of the Cam: — 



" due acre in Benepistel 

 sex acre et una roda quarum unum caput extendit super manlond . . . 

 due acre super Sortegravehill . . . 



due acre super Sortegravehill que vocantur le Gorey . . . 

 una acra et tres rode in eodem campo 

 tres acre et una roda super Putemannesdole 

 tres acre et una roda et quarta pars unius rode in Goredlond 

 septem acre et tres rode in Middelsot 

 dimidia acra ex opposito Eustachii de Broc 

 una acra ... in eodem campo." * 



The Dunmow cartulary takes us a little farther toward the 

 center of the county and fixes the probable limit of open field. 

 There can, for instance, be no doubt about its existence at Hen- 

 ham, where ten acres were disposed in seven parcels among 

 various field divisions." At Henham, too, we hear of " totam 

 dalam terre . . . que iacet apud le' 'helz de Rokey inter terram 

 Radulfi Rafur et terram Galfridi Dolling. Et dalam illam in 

 eodem campo inter terram Arnulfi et Rogeri le hog." ^ These 

 dales recall the open fields of northern England, and in the guise 

 of " doles " recur elsewhere in this region. * Just to the west of 

 Henham a fine of 40 Henry III locates sixteen acres at Manewden 

 in nine parcels.^ Other instances of scattered parcels hereabouts 

 are available, but perhaps enough have been adduced to show 



1 Harl. MS. 3697, f. 89J. 



2 Harl. MS. 662, f. 596. The acres were distributed as follows: — 



3S in Bermvelehe i in Hofeld 



J in viclande 3 in Coperdenefeld 



I J in Cockesdenefeld i in crofto meo 



3 Ibid., f. 586. 



^ Land in Alsewic, Herts, is specified as seven doles, each separately described 

 (ibid., f. 116). At Middleton one of the parcels in a holding was in the fourteenth 

 centur>' described as one " dole terre continens i acram que vocatur Sheppelond in 

 Sturfeld (Rents, and Survs., Portf. 25/17). 



' Kirk, Essex Fines, i. 216 (no. 1286). 



