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| Tenant in chief | a tenant holding land directly from the king, normally termed a baron. |
| Tenement | a land holding. |
| Tenementum | a land holding (Latin). |
| Thegn or Thane | Title given to a local lord during the Anglo-Saxon period, roughly equivalent to a Norman knight. His landholding his term a thanage. |
| Tithe | a tenth of all issue and profit, mainly grain, fruit, livestock and game, owed by parishioners to their church. |
| Toft | an enclosure for a homestead. |
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| Unfree tenure | see customary tenure. |
V | |
| Vaccary | a dairy farm |
| Vassal | a tenant, often of lordly status. |
| Vill | the local unit of civil administration, also used to designate a territorial township community (prior to the 14th century). |
| Villein | peasant whose freedom of time and action is constrained by his lord; a villein was not able to use the royal courts. |
| Villeinage | see customary tenure and unfree tenure. |
| Virgate | a quarter of a hide; a standardised villein holding of around 30 acres. Also known as a yardland. |
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| Ward | administrative division; the word implies a guarded or defended unit. The term most commonly relates to large administrative subdivisions of the county (usually 5 or 6) from the 13th century. Equivalent to a Poor Law township in Redesdale from 1662 onwards and in upper North Tynedale (Bellingham Chapelry) between 1662-1729. |
