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XXXIV.—Additional Remarks on the Hide of Land, and on some Ancient Manorial Customs in Oxfordshire. By Benjamin Williams, Esq.: in a Letter to Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth, V.P.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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Since I submitted to you the paper which the Society of Antiquaries has done me the honour of printing in the thirty-third volume of the Archæologia, pp. 269-278, I have met with a valuation of another manor, Shifford, in the same parish, anno 1608, in which the “yeard of land” is said to contain “above thirty-five acres by estimation.”

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1854

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page 470 note a Tanner MS., Bodleian Library, Oxford.

page 471 note a Exactly corresponding with the Anglo-Saxon rune tir, the bow.

page 471 note b It were easy to enlarge the list of names of lands of Anglo-Saxon derivation in this manor, as the wase, or wash, (wás), the crean, the woof, rushey, &c. The names of several of the old families there speak the same origin—Alder, Fryme, Fox, Martin, Sparohake, and Stone.

page 472 note a Obtaining, taking possession of; Anglo-Saxon, agnian; in Layamon's Brut, vol. i. 174, it is written ayenede.

page 474 note a Custumals somewhat similar were formerly known in Sussex. They are given in the Sussex Archæological Collections.