Was there any difference in meaning between "mead" and "meadow"?  The dictionaries tell us that the latter is just an inflected form of the former.   Yet the scribe of the 1250 survey [*] of Ely lands in Hitcham (Suffolk) seems to think there was a consistent distinction:

   Brademed

   Chapelmed

   [etc.]

De prato:

   Brademedwe

   Chapelmedwe

   Wecheshammedwe

   Mor [etc.]

What's going on here?

Keith

[*] BL Cotton Claudius C xi f284, unpublished.

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