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Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Far lei (/h. 



762 acres o£ arable land at 3 d an acre 

 36J ,, of pasture ,, at 2/ „ 

 38 33 oi woodland valued at 



9 .10 . 6. 

 3 .13 . 0. 

 2.0.0. 



Total 8364 acres of land and the above is £24 .16 . 0. 



Here the interval is two hundred and forty years, and the fol- 

 lowing changes are to be remarked, viz., a small decrease in the 

 area of cultivated land, a small increase in the value of the income, 

 and a very large increase in the population and in the nature of it, 

 the twenty-one coterelli, or cottagers, being a new element. 



I imagine that in 1294 the limits of cultivable lands in the manor 

 had been reached, and I conjecture that the ten acres less of arable 

 land in 1535 had been swallowed up in the gardens and cottages of 

 the twenty-one coterelli. The creation of this new and considerable 

 body of villagers was due principally to these facts, that our manor, 

 together with the (then) hamlet of Wraxhall (two hundred and 

 twelve acres), was the home farm of the Priory, and that the monks 

 had become large proprietors of live and dead stock. 1 



1 It is appropriate to our parish history, and it may interest some to know 

 something of the number, the value, and the kind of stock that was in use upon 

 a farm of about 1049 acres in those days — two hundred and fifty years ago — and 

 I therefore append a tabular statement of it : — 



Description. Number or Quantity. Value of each. £ s. d. & s. d. 



Yearlings 

 Calves 

 Mules 

 Asses 

 Ewes 

 Lambs 

 Porkers 

 Pigs 

 ^Horses 



Oxen 

 Cows 

 Bulls 



69 

 17 

 1 

 11 



9 

 9 

 5 



100 



24 

 36 

 30 

 4 



6/8 

 5/- 

 5/- 

 3/- 



1/- 

 5/- 

 2/- 

 /6 



/e 



1/- 



23 6 

 4 5 



0 5 



1 13 

 0 9 



2 5 

 0 10 



2 10 

 0 12 



0 18 



1 10 



3 8 



8 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 0 

 4 



315 

 1 

 6 



41 12 0 



Carts 



Ploughs 



Wheat 



Barley 



Oats 



60 quarters 

 59 



100 „ 



3/- 

 6/8 

 5/- 

 3/- 

 1/4 



0 3 0 



2 0 0 



17 5 0 



8 17 0 



6 13 4 



