Dated 27 years after the boundary perambulation this is the earliest surviving record that provides details which show the sizes of farms and gives an indication of the relative status of families who took part in the perambulation. Analysis of the rent roll shows two tenants, Thomas Storey and Thomas Hornby senior with the largest farms, another four including John Cole and John Abbott paying annual rents of around £26 for medium size farms and four paid annual rents varying from £19 8s 10d to £14 3s 2d. Sixteen tenants appear to have had smallholdings with annual rents ranging from £6 11s 2d to £2 1s 4d and three having small cottages. Excluding Thomas Prest of Cold Kirby there were 31 families living in Old Byland and allowing for the employment of labourers and servants a figure of 145 is considered to be a fair estimate of the population of Old Byland in the last quarter of the 17th century
