 | Archaeology - 1849 - 428 pages
...time immemorial there have been sixteen marks established in the village, each of which correspond with four yard-lands, and the whole sixteen consequently...enable the tenants every year to draw lots for their portion of the meadow. When the grass is fit to cut, which will be at different times in different... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Commons - 1876 - 150 pages
...the village, each of which corresponds with four yard-lands (allotments in the lands of the village). A certain number of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, the use of these marks enabling the tenants every year to draw lots for their portions of the meadow.... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Commons - 1880 - 448 pages
...which corresponds with four yard lands; and the whole sixteen consequently represent the 64 yard lands, into which the common is divided. A certain number...enable the tenants every year to draw lots for their portion of the meadow. When the grass is fit to cut, which will be at different times in different... | |
 | Denman Waldo Ross - Land tenure - 1883 - 294 pages
...village, each of which corresponds with four yard-lands (allotments in the lands of the village) . A certain number of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, the use of these marks enabling the tenants every year to draw lots for their portions of the meadow.... | |
 | Denman Waldo Ross - Land tenure - 1883 - 314 pages
...the village, each of which corresponds with four yard-lands (allotments in the lands of the village). A certain number of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, the use of these marks enabling the tenants every year to draw lots for their portions of the meadow.... | |
 | William Cunningham - England - 1890 - 654 pages
...which corresponds with four yard lands, and the whole sixteen consequently represent the 64 yard lands into which the common is divided. A certain number...enable the tenants every year to draw lots for their portion of the Meadow. When the grass is fit to cut, which will be at different times in different... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Village communities - 1890 - 358 pages
...the sixty-four yard-lands into which the common was divided. A certain number of tenants therefore have the same mark which they always keep, so that...one of them knows his own. The use of these marks ' Mr. Williams adds that the right of pasture was for " 8 rother beasts, or 4 horses and 32 sheep,... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton - Library catalogs - 1891 - 298 pages
...have been sixteen marks established in the village, each of which corresponds with four yardlands. A certain number of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, the use of thc«e marks enabling the tenants every year to draw lots for their portions of the meadow.... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton - Library catalogs - 1891 - 312 pages
...marks established in the village, each of which corresponds with four yardlands. A certain numl>er of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, the use of the^e marks enabling the tenants every year to draw lots for their portions of the meadow.... | |
 | W. Cunningham, William Cunningham - Commerce - 1896 - 740 pages
...which corresponds with four yard lands, and the whole sixteen consequently represent the 64 yard lands into which the common is divided. A certain number...own. The use of these marks is to enable the tenants BC 55 — (c) In regard to the common rights on the waste little need be added here ; it may be noted... | |
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... into which the common is divided. A certain number of the tenants consequently have the same mark, which they always keep, so that every one of them knows his own. The use of these marks is to enable the tenants every year to draw lots for their portion... 
