Hi Everyone Is anyone able to confirm or add to my understanding of the following item from a will written in 1570 please? 'I bequeath to my said sonnes as aforesaid two days mathe of meadow grounde' Am I right in thinking that this refers to a system of strip farming on a flood meadow where certain farmers own the right to take the first math ie the first cut of hay, measured not in acreage but in day's work. After the first cut then the land reverts to common grazing land until the first floods of winter. Was this sytem wide spread throughout Britain I wonder? Thanks Barbara