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ˈmolland Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 3 mollond, 4–6 moland.
[f. mōl, southern ME. form of mail n.2 + land.]
Land for which rent was paid in commutation of servile customs.
The explanation in quot. 1607 is erroneous; the term apparently continued to be traditionally applied to certain lands, but its import was matter of conjecture.
1290Reg. Bury St. Edmunds in Vinogradoff Villainage (1892) 183 Omnes tenentes de mollond solebant esse custumarii. a1300Reg. Eye Priory ibid. 184 Si tota terra fuerit mollond primogenitus debet eam retinere. [1399in Essex Rev. July (1904) 131 John Pyg was admitted to tenure of four acres of molond.] 1505Will of Gyrden (Somerset Ho.), v. acres molland. 1507Ibid., Molland Werkland Freeland Worland. [1563in Essex Rev. July (1904) 131 Richard and Clemence Everard..held Sayer's molond, a quarter of molond belonging to it.] 1607Norden Surv. Dial. iv. 183 Molland is up-land, or high ground, and the contrary is Fenland, low ground. |