yardlandn.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 619 Virgata, a yerdlond.

c1450 Godstow Reg. 205 [She] ȝaf & confermyd þe same ȝerdelonde þat reynolde of halso ȝaf to mynchons of Godestow.

1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 516/2 A Mese, a Yerdland, 111 Acres of Medowe.

1496 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 492/1 Aliam peciam terre prope australem partem dicti tenementi inter le yertland ejusdem et terram quond. dicti Nich.

1517 Lincoln Dioc. Doc. (1914) 265 I bequeth to Robert my sone fforethers hous with the yarde londe.

1527 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 17 John Selby..was seased of a Mese a close and di. yeerd land with thappourtenaunces.

1551 in T. Phillipps Index Worcester Wills (c1830) 199 A hous with on yeardland, lyging in Bloklley.

1581 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) Apr. 172 Rec. of parisheoners by the yard lands towards the bell.

1592–3 Act 35 Eliz. c. 7 §8 Everie person havinge One Yarde Lande or more in his Possession lying w^thin the sayde Fyve Miles [of Oxford].

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 97 How are the tenants stinted, whether by the yard-land, plow-land, oxe-gang, acres or rent.

1684 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (ed. 15) i. 17 30 acres ordinarily make a yard-land.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5487/4 A Messuage, Close, and half a Yard Land.

1720 W. Kennett Monitions to Clergy of Peterborough ii. 55 The same worthy Benefactor gave another half yard Land unto the poor People of the Parish of Blaxley.

1740 in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. I. 244/2 The said Mr. Cooper hath lett to the said John Weston..part of an Estate in Hugglescote, in the name of one Yard Land with Common for the said Yard Land.

1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 14 The tenantry yard-lands (or customary tenements) which are still subject to rights of common.

1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 15 There are many instances where a yard-land of about £20 per annum, contains about two acres of meadow land, eighteen acres of arable.., and a right on the common fields..for perhaps forty sheep.

1883 F. Seebohm Eng. Village Community v. 164 The yard-land was the normal holding of the gebur or villanus.

1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. N.v A rodde of londe, whiche some call a roode, some a yarde londe.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 67 A Rood is somtime called..a Yardland, but..very corruptly, for a Yardland containeth much more than an Acre.

1890 E. W. Watson Ashmore 31 The two plough-oxen, the universal outfit of the English yardland-holder.

1891 Athenæum 16 May 632/3 The notes he gives as to the families of the yardlanders are most interesting.

1906 N. J. Hone Manor i. i. 11 In 1279 a yard-lander at Newington, Oxon, was bound to plough an acre of winter tillage.

1964 H. P. R. Finberg Lucerna ii. 32 It would obviously make for convenience to group the strips of each yardlander.