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 " 'vii ws. vi. Nov. 17, im] NOTES AND QUERIES. 381 LUIVDUA, .SAI Ulil/A Y, .NOVE¢HBE1¢ 17. 11100. CONTENTS. -No. 151. N OTBB =-English and Roman Land Measures, 381-Whltf glft’s Hospital, 383-Downing Street, 384-Stlklasud- Little London- Wax Impressions of Marks on Plate, 386- .eipltaph at Gleneagles - English Seventeenth - Century Almanacs-Loaded Paper - Heads of Uxford and Cam- bridge Colleges, 386 - Old Church Furniture at Lime Regis-“ Khaki " as Party Term-Title of Bsqulre, 38. QUBBIBS =-Translations of Seneca and Galen-"Pidcock and Pollto”- ‘° Hawok ”-“Now thus "-Winser's Grave- swne, 387 - Rectora of Sutton Coldtield - Bees = Caged Birds-Gon Collection of Playing Cards-Welsh Alllteration-lgodfrey-B. West, MJ. - Bagshawe Pedi- gree - Uphlll Zigzag- Hieroglyphics - Early Work on Buxton - T. Campbell Johnson, 368- Seal Engraver- ltawle-OQor's Library-Columbaria -Armour ln Portraits -Shepherds' Bing-W. B. Forster-A °° Smithfield "- Charnock of Calcutta-Ancient Carthusian Monasterles- Burial-place of William, Son of Henry I., 389-“ Pairing " among M.P.s, 390. _ BBPLI S z-Rev. H. Rowe - Edward Irving s Houses in London, 390-Catalogue of First Book Auction In England -Footprints ol Gods - ° Complete Angler ' - °‘ Viva " - Medallion of Scott, 391-Locard and the Heart of Bruce- Ucto us on Pottery-Source of Quotation-Capt. Hewltt -A you d'l$sprlt-Old Wooden Uhest-Huish, 392-Folk lore : Swept and Garnished - Inscription in Mull - °° Skllly "-Picture by Corbould-Grave of George Herlot -“ Galluses "=Braces, 393 - B.D. - Sixteenth - Century Terms-Prologue and Epilogue to the ° CrltIc,’ 394-Count Peochlo-General Cope-Frensham Cauldron - .Peyto or Peto Family-Glpsles of Spain, 395-°° Lovlot "-A Con- temporary on Scott-Shakespeare and Cicero-“ Owl ln lvy bush,’ ' 396-Margaret of Bourbon-Mediaeval Tithe Barns - Yeomanry Records-“ Peace, retrenchment, and reform,” 397-Surnames from Single Letters-°° dave the face of " --Heraldic, 398- “ Old Jamaica "-Authors Wanted, 399. NOTES ON BOOKS :-‘ Book-Prices Current '-‘A Guide w Ex-Llbrls ’-Law’s ‘ Hampton Court ’-° An Old M.an’s Holidays ’-° King Arthur '-‘ Eton.” me ENGLISH AND ROMAN LAND MEASURES. (Continued from p. 305.) “'HEN the con tents of messuages or building- plots are given at all in the ‘ hundred Rolls ’ they are described for the most part as roods and half-roods. The best examples will be found in the returns for Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. At Sawston,* for instance, a list ot twenty-six villa/ni is given, together with the contents of their respective mes- suages and of the arable land which each holds. Eleven of these villaml are described as hold- ing messuages of half a rood each, and_ eight as holding a rood of messuage each. Of the remaining seven vzillami one holds a messuage of 3 roods, two others appear to hold land without a messuage, two others hold mes- suages of half an acre each, another holds a messuage of an acre and a half, and another holds a messuage of an acre. Five of the villaml hold no land with their messuages, and only one of them-a man called Martin .Egebrith-conforms-to the- table+ by holding "in messuage” half a rood and fifteen acres of arable land. 3 7125s. 11u}1<1r.,’ ii. 577 b. + ses ana, p. sos I have mentioned this case as a good ex- ample of the way in which messuages are often found to be severed from their holdings in the thirteenth century. Long before that period the old order had been breaking up, and what we see in the ‘Hundred ttolls’ is not the regular gradation of messuages and arable holdings which is brought into a focus in the table, but the déyecta membra of an ancient system. It is fortunate that enough has been left to enable us to ascertain what the scheme was. Here and there we get, as it were, whole pieces of the broken mechanism which enable us to reconstruct the whole. And we also get exceptions to the rule. Amongst these exceptions a list of mllaml at Hinxton, in Cambridgeshire, will claim our attention.* It begins with an account of twelve persons who hold cottages and other tenements. After that we have an enumera- tion of three persons who hold respectively a rood of messuage and 19 acres and 3 roods of arable land; of four persons who hold re- spectively a rood of messuage and 14 acres 3 roods of arable land; and four other persons who hold respectively half a rood of messuage and 30acresofarableland. Thelistends withan enumeration of seventeen consecutive persons who hold respectively half a rood of messuage and 14 acres and Bi roods of arable land, and of six other persons who hold respectively half a rood of messuage and quantities of arable land varying from 8 acres 3§ roods to 2 acres 3§ roods,+ the half-rood recurring in each arable holding. The chief point of interest lies in the seventeen persons who hold bovates -for they are really such-each of which is said to be composed of half a rood of messuage and 14 acres and 3§ roods of arable land. Now whether the messuage was an outside ap- purtenance of the 15 acres which composed the normal bovate, or was included in the bovate, it is, at any rate, clear that in this case the messuage attached to or included in the bovate was half a rood. Lest it should be supposed that the present case tends to establish a rule that the mes- suage formed an intrinsic part of the arable holumg, 1 would point to the four virgates of 30 acres which are placed immediately before the seventeen bovates just mentioned, and the messuages belonging to such virgates, which contam half a rood each. According tenants of William de Bosco. T In ii. b there is a list of 12 libere tenentes andvallam, each of whom holds a messuage con- taming I acre 3 roods “in croft,” and I4 acres of arable land. There is a similar list in ii. 580 a.
 * ‘Rot. Hundr.,’ ii. 587 a, beginning with the