Essays Upon the History of Meaux Abbey; And Some Principles of Medieval Land Tenure - Based Upon a Consideration of the Latin Chronicles of Meaux (A. D (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...(felled or cleared land). It had a 1197-1210 much wider meaning then than now. All the i. 305 fee of Richerus of Arnall consisted of two plough fields, but their extent was such that they occupied all the parish between its opposite boundaries. MM Plots of land were enclosed by means of iii. 17a ditches. At Rowth, when the ditch between the marsh and the cultivated land was defective, the beasts from the marsh invaded the corn lands and meadows blada et pratd) and did great damage. It was customary when the Gayre = a measure of land. Garricae = uncultivated land. corn had been reaped and the hay gathered, to turn animals to pasture on the enclosed lands, as on Kerrydales at Rowth. Every plough land had so much pasture or rights of common that went with it, oxen being necessary for ploughing and pasture being necessary for oxen. In the case of a sale or gift of arable land, it is most usual for the amount of land mentioned to be followed by the phrase, ' with its appurtenances (cum pertinentiis). Two carucates with their appurtenances, four bovates with their appurtenances, etc. That is to say, every arable land had a certain amount of pasture land, or so much right of pasture on common land attached to it, as its recognized appurtenance or complement. A bovate and a toft belonged to it, is a usual phrase, without indicating the exact size of the toft, which no doubt was very variable. But in the case of pasture rights on common land, it was a well known and fixed amount in every village, so much to every bovate (see pp. 143-149). In the ploughlands, wheat, oats, draget (a kind of barley), and beans were grown. On the pasture lands fed cows and Oxen, geese and swine, but the principal stock consisted of sheep, of which large...