Terrier of Church Lands, Sfc. 



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if any. For every back door w ch opens into y e Church Yard 

 (heretofore granted upon sufferance to some neighbouring 

 Inhabitants) Sixpence per Ann m . 

 In Stafford ton ^ The Tythes of an Hamlet w th in the S* Parish called 

 the Tythe of > Staffordton are paid by an Ancient Composition or Custome 

 theDenieasnes. J thereupon viz. — As for the Demeasnes, the Greater Tythes 

 thereof are not paid to the Rectors of Trowbridge, and for 

 the lesser Tythes the Customary payment to the said Rector 

 is'^One Pound Thirteen shillings and Fower pence per ann m , 

 to be paid at 4 payments Quarterly. For the tenements at the 

 Rate of Thirteen shillings and Fower pence per an m . Out of 

 every Halfe Yard Land, and out of every Mundays hold (which 

 is y e 4th part of a yard land) Six shillings and eight pence 

 p r an m . All which are to be paid at 4 payments Quarterly. 

 There are of these twenty and fower half yard Lands, and 3 

 Mundays hold,* so y e totall yearly summe payable for these 

 is Seaventeen pounds. 

 The My lis. For the Mills at Staffordton by a stated Composition Nine 



Shillings per ann ra to be paid at Easter. 

 Chappell Yard. By said Composition or Custome, the Herbage or Feeding 

 of y e Chappell yard at Staffordton belongs to the Rectors of 

 Trowbridge. The Bounds of it are to be made good by the 

 owners of the Demeasnes, and others whose lands bound 

 upon y e s d Chappell yard. 

 Portion of On the North West side of Ashton Common (called 



Tythes in > Hawegrove) there are six Grounds commonly knowne by 

 AshtonParish. J the names of Polebarne Grounds and Singers Grounds, now 

 in the possession of Joseph Holton, James Singer, and 

 Eleanor Singer, Wid :, or their assigns, and on the South 

 West Side of the s d Comon Eight Grounds more commonly 

 call'd Footpath Grounds, Blackball Grounds, and Arnolds 

 Meades, now in the possession of the said Joseph Holton 

 William Slade, Robert Beach Sen r , Harry Wallis, and 

 William Yerbury, or their Assigns, all which lands are 

 situate in the parish of Ashton, but by a certain Custom 

 or Prescription the Tythes of them have always (beyond any 

 known memory to the Contrary) beene paid to y e Rectors 

 of Trowbridge who have alwaies paid to y e Vicar of 

 Ashton in lieu of y e s d Portion of Tythes y e yearly Rent of 

 Fower Shillings. Now this Portion of Tythes so paid to the 

 Rectors of Trowbridge being lately questioned and challenged 

 by y e Yicar of Ashton, the Rector of Trowbridge made it 



•The expression " Moridaies-thtng," which is evidently the same as a " Mondays-hold " occurs 

 frequently in the Court Rolls of Castle Combe. See Scrope's Castle Combe, pp. 335, 336. In the 

 same book (p. 146) also we read of Monday-men, the tenants of such holdings. There can be little 

 doubt that the expressions we so frequently meet with in the Shaftesbury Chartulary, in reference 

 to small holdings at Holt and elsewhere in this neigbourhood, and also in the Glastonbury Register 

 (just brought to light by Canon Jackson) of tenements held by the obligation of personal service to 

 the lord every Monday, "qualibet die Lunoz" are the real explanation of this term, 



