10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YARDLAND»
Discover the use of
yardland in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
yardland and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Contrasting Communities: English Villages in the Sixteenth ...
English Villages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Margaret Spufford.
to eighteen acres in the former case, to over twenty in the latter.103 If a half-
yardland was widely accepted in the medieval period as the minimum farm on
which a ...
2
Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After
and assigns after the rate of seven yards land and an half, the said William
Gilbert and Bridget his wife during their lives and the life of the longest liver of
them and after for one year after the rate of one yardland and a half, and the said
Sir ...
3
The Open Fields of England
yrðland ('earth-land'); in the eleventh century the use of the term 'gherdelande' at
Lutton, Northamptonhire (S 1110; Hart and Lyons 1884, i: 189; dated 1052–65),
did mean 'yardland' as shown by its relationship to a hide recorded in 1086 (see
...
4
Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
In 1440 Richard Hervey of Kempsey retired and handed over his half yardland to
his son Roger. Roger died in 1465 and was succeeded by his son John. He died
in 1485, and it was only then that the holding passed into the hands of another ...
Richard M. Smith, Jan De Vries, Paul Johnson, 2002
5
Hampshire in 1086: An Extension of the Latin and an English ...
William, the Son of Stur, holds Orham, and it was held by Godric allodially of King
Edward. It was then assessed at \ a hide, and now at 1 yardland. It is returned at 1
ploughland, yet there are 1£ ploughlands in demesne, and 5 borderers with ...
6
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change ...
Together with other surveys of the type used at Cleeve, they suggest that in much
of midland and southern England yardlanders were in a distinct minority, and
nearly a half of all holdings were smaller than a half-yardland. Very few tenants ...
7
A Country Merchant, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the ...
By Heritage's day, as the numbers of villagers and the demand for land declined,
tenants with a single yardland had diminished to less than a tenth of the total, and
multiple holdings with two and three yardlands or even more had become ...
8
A history of the western division of the county of Sussex
Half a yardland of customary land, called Warren's, containing 7§ acres, at 15d.
per ann. 9s. 4d. for works, and a hen. + The copjr nf the Roll is in the possession
of Mr. Brookbanks, and indorsed, " Sauington Court Rooles beloDgs to John ...
9
Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Present
Though the size of the yardland varied from village to village — each village had
its own standard yardland — a good average size to remember is thirty acres.
The men who held each one yardland were often called yardlings (vir gatarii).
10
A Compleat Body of Arithmetic, in Four Books ...: Wherein ...
A Rood is sometime called a Farrhendele, and sometime a Yardland, but as to
Rood how called. the latter very corruptly , for a Yardland containeth much more
than an Acre. Tardland, more Several Denominations about Land Measure ...
