Direct comparisons can be made for three manors in Dorset: Cheselbourne, where the number of tenants fell from 45 to 44; Tarrant Hinton, where the numbers fell from 25 to 24; and bIwerne Minster/b, where the numbers increased from 77 to 83.85 Taken ... The varying dates of the later set of extents precludes any simple generalization about growth rates on the bestate/b as a whole, but the fact that 996 tenants were enumerated in the 1240s and early 1250s on manors where only 702 ...
he's frequently cranky and curmudgeonly about the culture and the people even while he celebrates them, scolding Brits for bvacationing/b here instead of there, for flocking to this artist instead of reading this book, for surrounding ... and the deep calls of church bells and that warm stale blast of air as a Tube train approaches and noontime lunches on the village green and winding white roads and Bourton-on-the-Hill and bIwerne Minster/b and Canons Ashby and Bag Enderby. ...
