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Note 134 — Chapter IV · THE OPEN FIELD SYSTEM TRACED IN SAXON TIMES—THE SCATTERING OF THE STRIPS ORIGINATED IN THE METHODS OF CO-ARATION.

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It will be remembered that Lammas land is divided into strips for the hay crop. In the Winslow Rolls, in the list of strips included in the virgate of John Moldeson were some strips or doles of meadow—hence dǽl and gedál-land. That gedal-land = open fields divided into strips, see Hist. Abingdon (p. 304), where there is a charter, A.D. 961, making a grant of '9 mansas' and 'thas nigon hida lieggead on gemang othran gedal-lande, feldes gemane and mæda gemane and yrthland gemane.'

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