1 gen 1606 anni - main

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Demesne land; the land attached to a mansion (OED). 1420 ‘licence ... to enclose his ground from the land called the <i> maynland </i> behind the messuage’, York (SS186/89); 1538 <i> ther manour or graunge of Greatt Broughton and all arable laund, mayn, medowe, common of moore </i> (SS83/354). Also used as an adjective: 1601 ‘one acre of<i> mayne myddowe </i>’, Moor Monkton (YRS150/135). It survives in a number of minor place-names: 1588 <i> Christopher Lowson of Munckton Maines </i>, Ripon (PR); 1606 <i> John Dodsworth of Massam Maynes </i> (NRQS1/48).

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