Obs. exc. Hist. Forms: 3 warlond, 4 warelond, 5 warlant, -londe, 5, 9 Hist. warland, 7, 9 wareland. [f. OE. waru defence (see WARE sb.2) + LAND sb.: in AL. terra de wara.] Agricultural land held by a villein.
See Vinogradoff, Eng. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. (1908).
c. 1158. Oseney Latin Register (Ch. Ch. MS.), fol. 17. Unam hidam terre cum quatuor hominibus de warland.
1290. Inq. Post Mortem. C. Edw. I, File 56 (18) (P.R.O.). Le warlond ejusdem manerii [sc. Norcliffe co. Chester] tenetur pascere servientes domine regine de Maklesfeld de mense in mensem quolibet mense per unum diem.
1331. [see THIGGING].
1456–7. MS. Bursar’s Bk. of Fountains, 58. In xiiij acr. et ij Rod. de Warland—ix s. viij d.
c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 30. Þere also j. hide of londe with iiij. men of Warlande [trans. quot. c. 1158 above]…; In Weston iij. ȝerdes of londe of Warlant. Ibid., 31. j. ȝerde of londe of þe lordship and another of Warlonde.
1811. Extract Court Rolls Great Oakley, Essex, [Francis Fisher a tenant of the Manor is described as holding 5 acres of] Wareland.
¶ Erroneously explained.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 137/2. Wareland, is as much Land as containeth three Lands. [See LAND sb. 7, LOON3.]
1691. Blount, Law Dict., Warland, The same with Warectum.
