The tenants with messuages in the village were:—­

Acres.

1.  J. Topliffe, gentleman     280
2.  F. Woodhouse, Esquire      270
3.  R. Ward, gentleman         265
4.  H. Shreve                  180
5.  A. Pightling, widow        120
6.  W. Rose’s heirs            110
7.  G. Berde                    60
8.  A. Thetford, gentleman      60
9.  T. Pightling                60
10.  R. Pightling                60
11.  J. Rose                     40
12.  R. Lincoln                  40
13.  W. Jeckell                  20
14.  W. Bulwer                   20
15.  E. Newerby, gentleman       15
16.  T. Barnard                  12
17.  E. Sparke                   10

There were also 12 tenants without houses, holding from 1 to 20 acres; the demesne was 230 acres; there were two glebes containing 84 acres, and town lands of 7 acres.  The waste amounted to 350 acres, which by 1599 had all disappeared.

On this manor the houses were not collected together in a village as usual in most parts of England, but scattered about the estate.  In two other manors the amount of waste remaining at this period was very small, but in three others little had been ‘approved’ and much consequently remained; most of the ‘approvements’, where made, seem to have been of long standing, and all the enclosures made were for tillage, not for grass as we should expect.  The 350 acres of waste that remained at Horstead in 1586-8 was enclosed in 1599 by agreement between the lords of the manor and the tenants on the following terms:—­

  1.  Lords to take 80 acres in severalty.

  2.  Lords to reserve all rights to treasure trove, minerals,
     waifs, &c., with right of entry to take the same.

  3.  All rights of pasture, shack, and foldage were to be
     extinguished on all lands in the village.

  4.  The tenants were to pay an annual quit rent of L7 14s. 5d.
     for their shares of the common.

Before a man enclosed he consolidated his holding by exchange, so as to bring it into a compact parcel instead of scattered strips, a very lengthy process; then he ploughed up the bounds between the strips; after which he changed the direction of the ploughing, ploughing the land crossways, a very necessary change, as it had all been ploughed lengthways for centuries; and lastly he erected his fences:  the bounds of the strips, however, were sometimes left to show which were freehold and which copyhold.  On the other hand, there were exceptions to the curtailment of the demesne:  on an Oxfordshire manor of the sixteenth century the greater part of the 64 yard-lands of which it consisted had by then passed from the possession of the peasants to the private use of the lord of the manor.[228] To each yard-land belonged a house and farmyard, 24 to 28-3/4 acres of arable land, a share in the commonable meadows which for each occupier came to some 8 acres, also the right to turn out 8 oxen or cows, or 6 horses and 40 sheep