--------------------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ | Total. | Free- |Customary|Lease- |Uncertain.| | |holders.| Tenants.|holders.| | --------------------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Northumberland, | 474 | 26 | 436 | 12 | | six manors | | | | | | | | | | | | Lancashire, | | | | | | seven manors, and lands | | | | | | belonging to Cockersand | | | | | | Abbey | 1280 | 217 | 451 | 334[62]| 278 | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Total | 1754 | 243 | 887 | 346 | 278 | | |(13.8%) | (50.5%) |(19.04%)| (15%) | | | | | | | Staffordshire, | 356 | 44 | 272 | 23 | 17 | six manors | | | | | | | | | | | | Leicestershire, | 618 | 134 | 311 | 124 | 49 | nine manors | | | | | | | | | | | | Northamptonshire, | 531 | 100 | 355 | 66 | 10 | seven manors | | | | | | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Total | 1505 | 278 | 938 | 213 | 76 | | |(18.1%) | (62.3%) |(14.2%) | (5%) | | | | | | | Norfolk, |1011[63]| 316 | 596 | 53 | 50 | twenty-five manors | | | | | | | | | | | | Suffolk, | 353 | 176 | 146 | 25 | 6 | fourteen manors | | | | | | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Total |1364[63]| 492 | 742 | 78 | 56 | | | (36%) | (54.3%) | (5.7%) | (4.1%) | | | | | | | Wiltshire, Somerset, | | | | | | and Devonshire, | | | | | | thirty-two manors | 1102 | 149 | 817 | 136 | | | | | | | | Hampshire, | 259 | 8 | 251 | | | two manors | | | | | | | | | | | | Ten other manors | | | | | | in the south of | | | | | | of England | 219 | 43 | 158 | 12 | 6 | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Total | 1580 | 200 | 1226 | 148 | 6 | | |(12.6%) | (77.2%) | (9.3%) | (0.3%) | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+ Grand total |6203[63]| 1213 | 3793 | 785 | 416 | | |(19.5%) | (61.1%) |(12.6%) | (6.7%) | --------------------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+----------+
[62] The Lancashire figures are unduly weighted by those of the single large manor of Rochdale, where, in 1626, there were 612 tenants. If this manor be omitted, there remain only 19 leaseholders on the other Lancashire manors. Like Northumberland, Lancashire seems to be (as one would expect) a county of customary tenants.