+-----------+---------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+ |Manors | | | | | |(excluding | | | | | |houses, | | | | | |orchards, | total area. | arable. | meadow. | pasture. | |garths, | | | | | |_&c._). | | | | | +-----------+---------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+ | | ac. ro. po. | ac. ro. po. |ac. ro. po. |ac. ro. po. | |four in | | | | | |northumber-| | | | | |land and | | | | | |one in | | | | | |lancashire |1730 3 13-1/4|1533 2 32-3/4| 98 1 6-1/8| 98 3 14 | | | | | | | |seven in | | | | | |wiltshire | | | | | |and one | | | | | |in dorset |3963 2 0 |3636 3 0 |124 3 0 |202 (in close | | | | | | plus | | | | | | consid- | | | | | | erable | | | | | | rights of | | | | | | pasture | | | | | | not | | | | | | expressed | | | | | | in acres).| |four in | | | | | |midlands | | | | | |(bedford, | | | | | |leicester, | | | | | |northants, | | | |ac. ro. po. | |stafford) |2092 3 2 |1670 2 17 | 167 3 32 |254 0 33 | +-----------+---------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+
[219] It must be remembered, however, that there was pasture on the one field which every year lay fallow, and that the amount of this does not appear in the figures given below.
[220] Camden Society, Norden, Speculum Britanniæ, Part I., Intro.: "And these commonly are so furnished with kyne that their wives twice or thrice a week conveyeth to London mylke and butter, cheese, apples, pears, frutmentye, hens and chickens, baken, and other country drugs ... and this yieldeth them a large comfort and relief."