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9-10); Langley (Hen. VIII., R.O. Augm. Off., Misc. Bks. 399, f. 228-9); Walsingham (Hen. VIII., R.O. Augm. Off., Misc. Bks. 399, f. 201); Brisingham (31 Eliz., R.O. Misc. Bks. 220, f. 236); Farfield (31 Eliz., _ibid._); Wighton (17 Eliz., R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Duchy of Lanc, Bdle. 7, No. 34); Peakhall (1575, Holkham MSS., t.i.ttleshall Bks., No.

12); West Lexham (1575, Holkham MSS., West Lexham MSS., No. 87); Foxley (1568, Holkham MSS., Billingford and Bintry MSS., Bdle. No. 9); Sparham (1590, Holkham MSS., Sparham MSS., Bdle. No. 5); Billingford (between 1564 and 1606, Holkham MSS., Billingford and Bintry MSS., Bdle. No. 9); Fulmordeston (1614, Holkham MSS., Map No. 59).

2. Wilts.h.i.+re.

South Newton, Estoverton, Wynterbourne Ba.s.set, Byshopeston, Donnington, Knyghton, Domerham, Burdonsball, Foughlestone, Brudecomb, Westoverton, Sutton Maundeville, Stockton, Albedeston, Chalke, Bulbridge, Dichampton, Patney, Wyley, Berwick St. John, Remesbury, Staunton, Chilmerke (all 1565-73, Roxburgh Club, _Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke_).

3. Manors in other counties.

Ashton (Lancs., Hen. VIII., R.O. Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., Portf.

19, No. 7, ff. 69-72); Prestwood (Staffs., R.O. Misc. Bks. Land Rev., vol. 185, ff. 155b-7); Gamlingay Merton (Cambridges.h.i.+re, 1601, Merton Estate Maps); Gamlingay Avenells (_ibid._); Salford (Bedfords.h.i.+re, 1595, All Souls Estate Maps); Weedon Weston (Northants, c. 1595, _ibid._); Edgeware (Middles.e.x, 1597, All Souls Estate Maps); Kingsbury (Middles.e.x, 1597, _ibid._); Greenham (Bucks, 1595, _ibid._); Crendon (Bucks, c.

1595, _ibid._); Harlesden Farm (Middles.e.x, 1599, _ibid._); Land in the Parish of Hendon (Middles.e.x, c. 1599, _ibid._); Whadborough (Leicesters.h.i.+re, 1620, _ibid._).

The fact that this table is compiled from doc.u.ments of different dates makes it impossible to use it as an index of the size of the large leasehold farms at any one period in the sixteenth century. Nor can I hope to have escaped errors of calculation. I hope, however, it may be of some use in ill.u.s.trating the considerable scale on which some farms were conducted.

TABLES IX, X, and XI (pp. 218, 225-226 and 227)

The farms from which these tables are compiled are included in the list given in explanation of Table VIII. (with one exception, Ewerne in Dorsets.h.i.+re, _Topographer and Genealogist_, vol. i.), and it is therefore unnecessary to set them out in detail here. The figures as to arable, pasture, and meadow on the demesne of 41 monasteries are taken from Savine, "English Monasteries on the Eve of the Dissolution,"

_Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History_, vol. i. p. 172.

TABLE XIII (p. 300)

This table is compiled from doc.u.ments relating to the undermentioned manors. When the reference has already been given I do not repeat it here:--23 manors in Wilts, Somerset, and Devon, Roxburghe Club, _Surveys of Lands of William, First Earl of Pembroke_. West Lexham (Norfolk), Sparham (Norfolk), East Dereham (Norfolk), Wighton (Norfolk), Stockton Socon (Norfolk, 1649, R.O. Parly. Surveys, Norf. No. 14); Aldeburgh (Suffolk, Hen. VIII., R.O. Misc. Bks., Treas. of Receipt, vol. 163); St.

Edmund (Suffolk, 1650, R.O. Parly. Surveys, Suff. No. 14); Dodnash (Suffolk, Hen. VIII., R.O. Misc. Bks., Treas. of Receipt, vol. 163, f.

79); Chatesham, Suffolk (Hen. VIII., R.O. Misc. Bks., Treas. of Receipt, vol. 163, f. 91); Falkenham (Suffolk, Hen. VIII., R.O. Treas. of Receipt, vol. 163, f. 181); Stratford juxta Higham (Suffolk), Mettingham (Suffolk, _Victoria County History_, chapter on Social and Economic History); Mark Soham (Suffolk, _ibid._); Bushey (Herts, 7 Eliz., from Court Rolls lent me by the late Miss Toulmin Smith); Ewerne (Dorset, 1567, _Topographer and Genealogist_, vol. i.); Corton (Somerset, _ibid._); Rolleston (Staffs., _ibid._); Hewlington (Denbighs.h.i.+re, 4 Eliz., Wrexham Library, Ancient Local Records, vol. ii.); Holt (Denbighs.h.i.+re, _ibid._); Wotton in Elishall (Staffs.); Burton Bondend (Staffs.); Agarsley (Staffs.); High Furness (Lancs., 28 Eliz., R.O.

Duchy of Lancs., Special Commissions, No. 398); Crondal (Hants); Edgeware (Middles.e.x); Kingsbury (Middles.e.x); Malden (Surrey, Merton MSS., book labelled Malden, Thorncroft, and Farleigh); Thorncroft (Surrey, _ibid._); Farleigh (Surrey, _ibid._); 14 manors in Northumberland (_Northumberland County History_, vol. viii., p. 238); Bradford (Somerset, Selden Society, vol. xii., Leadam, Select Cases in the Court of Requests); Shepton Mallet, Somerset (Calendar of Proceedings in Chancery, _temp._ Eliz. H.h. i. 27); Newton Tracye (Devon, _ibid._, H.h. 23, 17); Chudlye (Devon, _ibid._, L.l. 8, 31); Powlton (Wilts, _ibid._, M.m. 13); Kibworth Harcourt (Leicesters.h.i.+re, Merton MSS., book containing extracts from Merton Court Rolls); Barkby (Leicesters.h.i.+re, _ibid._).

NOTE.--(i) The names of the manors from which Dr. Savine takes his figures are not given. Consequently his information and mine may sometimes overlap, (ii) The MSS. book from which the customs of Farleigh, Thorncroft, and Malden are taken is dated 1841, but it purports to give customs based on ancient court rolls. The same applies to the information as to Kibworth Harcourt and Barkby.

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