Note 429 — Chapter II · THE REACTION OF THE AGRARIAN CHANGES ON THE PEASANTRY

Northumberland County History, vol. v., Birling: “Allowed part of 25s. 4d. for focage of Orchard Medow and Mylneside Bank, because they are now enclosed within the lord’s new Park, and this allowance shall be made yearly until the tenants of Byrling have and peacefully enjoy another parcel of pasture to the same value 11s. 8d." (Bailiff’s Accounts, 1474). R.O. Misc. Books Land Rev., vol. ccxx., f. 236: “Divers parcels of land and pasture of the manor of Farfield, now common of 140 acres, now occupied by the tenants there as commons and given them in exchange in satisfaction of their old common imparked in the new Park, £6, 13s. 8d.”