In connection with my research into farms, names and families, I am interested in a number of issues at the moment:

1. Tenants in Lanes. These are mentioned in the very early Statutes, and are effectively squatters who have built their cottage and enclosed a croft on the side of a highway. Then paid a rent. There are a few of them around, and I would be interested to have any pointed out. I really am looking at ones that could have been around circa 1500. There are examples at Baldrine or Groudle village in Lonan, alongside packhorse lane.

2. Early sub-tenancies. I am interest ed in any instance of your family NOT appearing in the 1511/1513 Liber Assed, but appearing soon after in part of a quarterland. I am thinking of the Clagues in the Treen of Baldall Brew in Braddan, the Cannells in Ballawillan in Baldal;l Regnilt in Braddan. I am suspicious that both these families could have been sub-tenants in 1511, possibly the Clagues could have been in Ballig.

3. In general, details of Balla farmsteads which do not classify as quarterlands, with the earliest details of occuupation.

Please think about this.

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