Note 134 — Chapter II · THE PEASANTRY
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The inconvenience of reckoning in yardlands is noticed by a writer in the seventeenth century: “The tax of land is after the yardland; a name very deceitful by the disproportion and inequality thereof, the quantity of some one yardland being as much as one and a halfe or two in the same field, and yet there is an equality of taxes” (Joseph Lee, A Vindication of a Regulated Enclosure, 1656).