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fallow or in clover. When the crops were carried, 
the common fields were thrown open for the benefit 
of all the tenants of the Manor. Cattle were first 
turned in, and subsequently sheep. The cattle appear 
to have been fed from the time of carrying the corn 
till November, and the sheep to have been folded on 
the fields during the winter. The fallow field was 
not to be broken up till Midsummer. The hedges 
round the common fields were repaired by the severalty 
holders, in proportion to their holdings in such fields. 
There were grass banks called lanchards in the common 
fields, which it was forbidden to plough up. The cattle 
were not pastured on these until the corn was carried. 
The ownership of Jand in each of these three common 
fields was minutely divided—each owner having three 
or four, and often more, detached lots in each of the 
fields. These lands were held by two kinds of cus- 
tomary tenure—(1) Copyholds held not absolutely, but 
during three lives, renewable upon the dropping of 
a life, on payment of a fine of considerable amount ; 
(2) Leaseholds for a term of 99 years, if certain persons 
named in the lease should live so long. These leases 
were granted by the lord, on payment of a fine, at a 
small yearly reserved rent. They had probably been 
substituted for some more certain tenure, such as 
that which the copyholders enjoyed. There appear, in 
1814, to have been thirty-five such customary tenants, 
of whom twenty-six were leaseholders. Up to the 
date of the sale by Lord Arundel to Lord Rivers, the 
tenancies of the Manor continued in much the same 
