Less than 1 acre .......160[**]8   4733   444945
1 acre and under 10   2790    10136   151922
10 acres     "    50   1305    31391   138517
50   "       "   100    457    32605    92257
100   "       "   500    589   118187   258049
500   "       "  1000     66    46420   122817
1000   "       "  2000     34    46794    89267
2000   "       "  5000     25    78993   131886
5000   "       " 10000      5    33353    54611
10000   "       " 20000      3    38343    88703
No areas given .........   522     --   112107
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Total .... 21804   441061  1685735

Duddeston Hall, and the Holte Family.—­The first record of this family we have is towards the close of the thirteenth century when we find mention of Sir Henry Holte, whose son, Hugh del Holte, died in 1322.  In 1331 Simon del Holte, styled of Birmingham, purchased the manor of Nechells “in consideration of xl li of silver.”  In 1365 John atte Holte purchased for “forty marks” the manor of Duddeston, and two years later he became possessed by gift of the manor of Aston.  For many generations the family residence was at Duddeston, though their burial place was at Aston, in which church are many of their monuments, the oldest being that of Wm. Holte, who died September 28, 1514.  That the Holtes, though untitled, were men of mark, may be seen by the brass in the North Aisle of Aston Church to the memory of Thomas Holte, “Justice of North Wales, and Lord of this town of Aston,” who died March 23, 1545.  His goods and chattels at his death were valued at L270 6s. 2d.—­a very large sum in those days, and from the inventory we find that the Hall contained thirteen sleeping apartments, viz., “the chambur over the buttrie, the chappel chambur, the maydes’ chambur, the great chambur, the inner chambur, to the great chambur, the yatehouse chambur, the inner chambur to the same, the geston chambur, the crosse chambur, the inner chambur to the same, the clark’s chambur the yoemen’s chambur, and the hyne’s chambur.”  The other apartments were “the hawle, the plece, the storehouse, the galarye, the butterye, the ketchyn, the larderhowse, the dey-howse, the bakhowse, the bultinge howse, and the yeling howse,” —­the “chappell” being also part of the Hall.  The principal bedrooms were hung with splendid hangings, those of the great chamber being “of gaye colors, blewe and redde,” the other articles in accordance therewith, the contents of this one room being valued at xiij li. xiv. s. iiijd. (L13 14s. 4d.) The household linen comprised “22 damaske and two diapur table clothes” worth 4s.; ten dozen table napkins (40s.); a dozen “fyne towells,” 20s.; a dozen “course towells” 6s. 8d.; thirty pair “fyne shetes” L5; twenty-three pair “course shetes” L3; and twenty-six “pillow beres” 20/-.  The kitchen contained “potts, chafornes, skymmers, skellets, cressets, gredires, frying pannys, chfying dishes, a brazon morter with a pestell, stone morters, strykinge knives, broches, racks, brandards,