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No. 64) the Archbishop of York leased to the Lease of 

 Prior and Convent of Hexham the demesnes there JemeTn, 

 for a term of 1 5 years, to be returned in the same I2 3 2 - 

 condition as received as to crops and fallow ; the 

 total being 179^ acres of arable land in 9 fields or 

 portions of fields (all specified), of which 78 acres 

 in Oats, 51^ in Wheat, and 50 in bare fallow 

 (terra warrecanda), together with the precations 

 of ploughs and harrows of the tenantry, and with 

 pasture for 1 6 oxen, and ploughbote for the draught 

 of 2 ploughs so that here were 90 acres per 

 demesne plough, part of which 90 acres the 

 villeinage would cultivate. 



Again in 1292 (Malmesbury Reg. Rolls Series) Lease of & 



i 111 AII i i Blakelound 



a lease was made by the Abbot to the cook 1292. 

 20 Ed. I. April of le Blakelound consisting of 

 105 acres sown (fallow not named) to wit 62 of 

 wheat, ii barley, beans, and vetches, and 32 of 

 oats, together with los. of pasture, los. of custom- 

 ary works, 1 6 oxen, 2 horses, ploughs (caruc\ and 

 2 harrows, etc.^ 



Further, in 47 Hen. III. (I.P.M. Yorks Record 

 Series), in the I.P.M. of Baldwin de Insula, there 

 are at his Manor of Hare wood 279 acres arable in Manor of 

 demesne worked by 3 teams, nevertheless imme- ^jy,///. 

 diately follow the plough services of the 'tenantry 

 on those acres equal at least to tilling 1 30 of them 

 once over, so that tho' he may have 3 ploughlands 

 of 93 acres each, and 3 ploughs in demesne, this is 

 nothing to the purpose in the matter of actual 

 work of one plough. Also in the same vols. 



* The deed cited in the Malmesbury Reg. just before this 

 one makes clear that came* means ploughs here and not a 

 plough presumably two. 



