jan 1, 1598 - edish

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In the manorial system tenants had pasturing rights in the common fields once the hay and corn had been harvested. The grass and the right to it lie behind the word ‘edish’ 1545 ‘no one shall let or take any wood for eating the herbage called edishe’, Methley (Th35/208); 1556 haithe ... as of right eaten the edishe of Hardye Flatt with there cattell ... everye one of them in ther tyme And ... kept there Cattell there at edishe after corne haith bene gonne and other tymes of the yere and when it haith beyne faughe, Welburn (YRS114/79); 1598 Item the eddishe of one close, Oxmardike (Kaner203).

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