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Title: The English village community, examined in its relations to the manorial and tribal systems and to the common or open field system of husbandry; an essay in economic history
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Seebohm, Frederic, 1833-1912
Subjects: Village communities
Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Edw°-WellCT hjiuii>n:.Lonqiiians (f- C^ The Winslow Manor Rolls. 27 Moldeson thus by chance described and exposed to Chap. ii.view on the manor rolls ? Is it right to assume that this virgate may be taken as a pattern of the rest ? The*answer is, that in the description of its 72 half-acrestrips the 144 neighbouring strips are incidentally in-volved. And as 66 of its strips had on one side ofthem 66 other strips of another tenant, viz. JohnWatekyns, and on the other side 43 of the next stripsbelonged to Henry Warde, and 23 to John Mayn, Eotation and 8 of the strips only had other neighbours, it is ^^y^^^^ievident that the virgate of John Moldeson was one of a *^ ^p^-system of similar virgates formed of scattered half-acrestrips, arranged in a certain regular order of rotation,in which John Moldeson came 66 times next to JohnWatekyns, and two other neighbours followed him,one 43 and the other 23 times, in similar succession. Thus the Winslow virgates were intermixed, and a virgatee

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