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carucate [car]- No
fixed number of acres*. Probably related to the quality of the land.
An area of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a year.
[60-120acres]. Later 12
carucates are said to have made a Knight's Fee.4 A ploughed
field was ridged and furrowed. A furrows length was a 'furlong' each ridge
was spaced at the distance of one rod [also called a pole or perch] Four
furrow lengths or furlongs of ploughed field covered one acre.
knight's Fee- 120-240
acres [ i.e. 2 carucates].
hide- 120 acres
bovate/bo [Oxgang]-
land which could be worked by one ox, one eigth of a carucate i.e.
7.5-15 acres.
hundred- a sudivision
of a shire, common in southern England.
wapentake- ["Weapon-take"] is equivalent
to a "Hundred" in southern England.
Domesday mile - 1.5
miles of the more 'modern' mile.
lat- wide [hence lateral]
league- [lg]
from Latin: Leuge [Celtic: Leuca] commonly equal to 3 'modern' miles.
lev- long
Tot- whole [total]
dim- half [probably the
derivation for 'dim-wit' or 'half-wit'.]
lib- English pound,
£, [probably the origin for £iberty, i.e. money to do what
one likes with, the true meaning of liberty so much espoused today. So money
was at the bottiom of it all!]
We can also see where
the symbol lb. for pound weight originated.
fol- shilling [1/-]
trae- three
TERMS:
manedo/manerio/manerium
[maner i.e. manor]- The usual residence of the owner. They may have
been small to very large dwellings.
waste- an area laid
barren during William I's "Harrying of the North" in 1069 and still
agriculturally wasted
seventeen years later in 1086.
T.R.E.- Terra Regis Edwardi, Before 1066,
the land during the reign of Edward the Confessor.
ad gld- taxable land.
bord- bordar, a smallholder.
hb- had
car- ploughs
berew- Berewick, an outlier from the main
manor.
Id eft- that is [i.e.]
past- pasture
possunt/ poss/potest- possible
ptinet- belong
silua- woodland
tenet- tenant, holds from.
taini/teigni- theigns
constable- a castellan, a keeper of a
royal castle, also an officer of a hundred who was responsible for
running a military levy [Late Latin & Old French 1200's stabuli- officer
in charge of the stables, Latin- comes-comrade + stable- homestead or stable.]
ual- value
4. Monasticon Eboracense, p.
440.
