SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



die Septembris anno 9 Hen: VIII.' The Middlesex commissioners were 

 John, abbot of Westminster, Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Thomas Nevell and 

 John Heron. 1103 The opening meeting and the appointment of the jury 

 were held at Hendon, after which the commissioners adjourned to 

 Westminster to receive the sworn returns of the jurors. Subjoined are 

 tabulated the inclosures given in the return, and the number of ploughs 

 put down in consequence. The incompleteness of the returns prevents, 

 of course, anything like an exact estimate of the amount inclosed, but 

 they suffice to show that the quantity is not very considerable. 



DEPOPULATION RETURN, 1517 



Messuages allowed to be ruinous 



Ruislip, four (worth 40.;. per ann.). ' The people turned out and the praise of God decayed.' 

 East Bedfont tenements ruinous. Three persons turned out. 

 Harrow cot and messuage (worth 2O/.). Three people turned out. 



A Lansdowne manuscript in the British Museum m contains a 

 fragment of a list of inclosures in the suburbs of London, bound up with 

 no heading, between the returns for the Isle of Wight and Staffordshire. 

 The inclosures are in Hackney and, with the exception of one of 100 acres 

 made by the prior of St. Helen's Bishopsgate, which is entered among 

 the commissioners' returns in the inquisition at the Record Office, 



n(h Pat. 9 Hen. VIII, pt. 2, m. 6J. 



111 B.M. Lansdowne MS. i, fol. 177 ; see also Leadam and Gay as above. 



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