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1791 Jrnls. House of Commons XLVI. 25 Feb. 224/1 The Forest of Dartmoore..is a large Tract of Waste Land,..the Whole of which, except the ancient Customary Tenements, and the Nwtakes granted in respect thereof, is open and uninclosed.

1826 Rep. Commissioners Charities I. 78/1 Several acres of land lying also within the said manor and forest,..which were formerly granted by copy of court roll, unto John Preston..by the name of a Newtake.

1850 Notes & Queries 9 Mar. 307/2 If the tenement was an ancient one, it was vetus or antiquum astrum; if a tenure of recent creation (or a new-take, as it is called in some manors), it was novum astrum.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Furze Bloom 18 Tonks..said he would finish his new-take wall by himself.

1938 Antiquity 12 184 The process of cleaning and preparing this ‘newtake’.

1950 F. Stark Traveller's Prelude 52 We had all moor rights by virtue of the ‘newtakes’, or half-wild grazing lands.

1981 B. Carter Black Fox Running (1982) xxi. 134 His Galloways weren't going short of grub on the Emswerthay newtakes and there was always enough feed up on the commons to fatten the sheep.

2009 F. Lynghaug Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide 465/1 The Dartmoor Pony Support Scheme..allowed inspected and approved typey mares to run with a pedigreed stallion on one of several newtakes (an enclosed, controlled part of the moor that is separated from the commons and used for breeding purposes).