English Field SystemsHarvard University Press, 1915 - 568 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acram dimidiam acras terre acre terre arabilis acres acres of arable Agriculture anno annum apud award butts campis campo occidentali campo qui vocatur campo vocato Celtic charters closes communi comprised copyholds Cott croft crops demesne demesne arable dimidiam acram divided division dola early East field enclosed enclosure estimationem extent fallow farm feild field arrangements field system four freeholds furlongs hamlets Herefordshire holdings iacent Ibid ibidem iibus particulis iiii intermixed Item iuga iugum iuxta Jacobean Jacobean surveys Kentish Land Rev manor messuage midland names North Northumberland open arable fields Open Common Fields open fields Oxfordshire parcels pasture perticatas rodam rodas runrig selions sixteenth century South field strips sunt super tenants tenement tenet terram terriers thirteenth century three-course three-field system three-field townships tillage tres two-field unam acram unum versus villein virg virgate vocatam warectam West field
Popular passages
Page 308 - Counties ; for, notwithstanding common rights, for great cattle, exist in all of them, and even sheep-walk privileges in many, yet the natural industry of the people is such, that wherever a person can get four or five acres together, he plants a white-thorn hedge round it, and seta an oak at every rod distance, which is consented to by a kind of general courtesy from one neighbour to another.
Page 79 - Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks, with a Glossary of Obsolete Terms,' Oxford, 1695, 4to, dedicated to his patron, Sir W.