2 Notes on Common Lands in and around Durrington. 



For example, in Milston : — 



Stephen Maton, holding acres, had a right of feed on the 



tenantry down for five sheep, 

 John Smith, with 8 acres, had a like right for five sheep. 

 Edward White, with 7 acres, had a right on the tenantry 



down for seventeen sheep ; another, with 17-f acres, for 



thirty-four sheep ; and yet another, having 18 acres, for 



forty-three sheep. 

 Margaret Hopkins, having 40 acres, had a right of feed for 



eighty-two sheep ; and a copyhold, described as late Collier's, 



fed the same number of sheep, although it was nearly 49 



acres. 



Benjamin Hayden had nearly 100 acres and with this a right 

 for two hundred and five sheep. The Lower Farm, of 110 

 acres, had a right of feed for two hundred and twenty-four 

 sheep on a down of about seven hundred and fifty-four acres. 

 In this account of Milston, which belongs to 1813, there is no 

 mention of rights for any but sheep. Earlier rights for cows and 

 horses certainly existed there : and in the large parish of Amesbury 

 about 312 acres were lands commonable for part of the year for the 

 common herd. 



These were the rights of the copyholders, leaseholders, small 

 freeholders, and tenants. The lord of the manor had other rights 

 in addition. 



In 1819 the lessee of Durrington West-end Manor under 

 Winchester College claimed that the Manor Farm Flock had a 

 right to feed all the wheat stubbles on the East-end (a lesser) 

 Manor from Old Michaelmas to Martin's tide yearly ; in the second 

 barley field from Luke's tide to Martin's tide. In the West-end 

 Manor the same flock had the feeding of Colt's ham wheat and 

 barley stubble two years out of three following ; also yearly over 

 low fields in other farms every year. Also over the whole of the 

 Cow down from Michaelmas to Old Candlemas. Also Leaze for 

 Manor farm Cows on the down and fields from May till November. 

 So that the lord was indeed an over-lord. 



But a much worse evil than the rights of the lord of the manor 



