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High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



Thos. Wilson, son 

 of John Wilson, 

 sen. 



Fine Liiijs. 



John Wilson, son 

 of John Wilson, 

 jun. 



Fine Liiijs. 



John Wilson, senior, took of the lord there a messuage 

 or tenement, with a garden and croft, containing by- 

 estimate i acre, and two husband lands with pertinents, 

 comprising 23 acres of arable land, of meadow and 

 pasture, pertaining to the same messuage with pertinents, ^^iij-'- 

 by Copy of the date aforesaid, and rent by the year, as 

 appears in the foot, and by fine at the top. 



John Wilson, junior, took of the lord there a messuage 

 or tenement, with a garden and a croft, containing by 

 estimate ^ acre, and two husband lands with pertinents, 

 containing 33 acres of arable land, of meadow and x^"]*- 

 pasture, by estimate pertaining to the said messuage 

 with pertinents, by Copy of date aforesaid, and pays by 

 the year, as appears at the foot, and for a fine as at the 

 top. 



It ys to be remembered that the said Wm. Bednell's 

 tenants did pay more free rente yerely, then nowe, they 

 are to be charged with all the cause of the decrease of 

 the said free rente. 



This towne was at the first planted with xvj tenants, 

 as yett appeareth by the scites of their tenements, and 

 are now but viij tenants ; the cause ys that ther ys so 

 little arable land and medowe gronnde, as also pasture 

 moore gronnde, which will not well sufiice for the living 

 of so many tenants, and for that they sholde the better 

 lyve, and be more able to doo ther dewtyfuU servyce to 

 ther L. and Mr., they were of xvj made, but viij tenants. 



The said Thomas Buston hath one lytle house ther, 

 wherin dwelleth one tenant to do him servyce, wc ys 

 agaynst the old ancyent ordre of this Lp., for althoughe 

 he aledgeth that he or any other may upon his freholde 

 sett such severall buildings upon auncyent scites, as they 

 shall think good, wherunto I must by leave agree. 

 Never the lesse yf we consyder the premiss, and for what 

 cause the said towne was brought from xvj tenants to 

 viij fermors, as also the small quantity of the corne 

 moare, and that every inhabyt within any towne must 

 have suffycyent for the maintenance of him and his 

 family, and wher also suche straite extinte of all things 

 ys kept, (as ys in the towne of Bustone), then they will 

 think it bothe lawe and reason that every tenant of lyke 

 lande and lyke rente, have lyke porcyon in all things 

 upon the said common pasture. And sure I would give 

 order that the said Thomas Bustone should have no more 

 pasture or other extinte or fewell, (seeing he is in all 

 respects equal with every one of the said tenants), for 

 him and his tenant, both then one of the said tenants, 



