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The complexity of a man’s relationship to lord and neighbour is well illustrated by a grant of land at Dilston in Northumberland to Geoffrey de Cokeside 1339. He received a husbandland (probably of 25 acres) to hold at will for 30s. yearly, a more or less economic rent.
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‘Coldlands’ of c 1715 can be traced as the ‘Cald Lands’, a six-husbandland unit in 1596 (Milne Home, no 371). These 6 husbandlands (156 acres in theory) are very nearly identical with the 157 measured acres of the survey.
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