152 THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
de Allerwas, and which was held by Sir Thomas of the Abbot and Convent for 
a yearly rent of 2s., and which rent the said Thomas had withheld ; also 
respecting the tenure of one Richard Wymer in Drakelowe, who held of the 
Abbot by fealty and the service of 5s. 6d. ; and of John de la Grene, who held 
of the Abbot in Lynton, and regarding likewise an assize of novel disseisin 
which the Abbot had arraigned against Sir Thomas Gresley in the County 
Court of Derbyshire respecting certain lands and tenements in Stapunhull. 
By the award Sir Thomas is to pay the arrears of the rent owing to the 
Abbot, and to engage not to disturb or molest the Abbot and his men in future ; 
and the assize of novel disseisin is to be tried.in Derbyshire, the Abbot and Sir 
Thomas engaging not to appear at the Court with more than twenty-four 
persons in their respective retinues. Theaward is dated the Wednesday on the 
Vigil of St. John the Baptist, 7 Hen. IV. 
Omnibus Chrispi fidelibus etc. Thomas Gresley Miles et Johannes Gredity 
Miles filius et heres ejusdem Thomz etc. salutem. Noveritis nos ete. 
concessisse Dompno Radulpho Heneley Abbati Monasterii Beatze Marie etc. 
de Burton super Trentam etc. licenciam nostram figendi, cubandi, etc. fistulas 
plumbeas suas aquee ductze suze in Stapunhull subtus et infra fundum nostrum 
et terram nostram in eadem villa de Stapunhull ete. H. T. Johanne Dedhek 
Domino de Newehall, Henrico Holand de Caldewalle, Thoma Calangewode 
de eAdem Reginaldo Roundell de Stapenhyll, Henrico de Caldewalle de eadem. 
Datum apud Stapenhyll etc. 15 H. VI. 
NOTE ON THE MEDIEVAL MENSURATION OF LAND. 
A large number of passages from ancient writers relating to this subject have 
been industriously collected together by Sir Henry Ellis in his “‘ Introductions 
to Domesday,” Vol. I., page 145, but the reader will rise from a perusal of them 
more bewildered than ever. It is quite clear that the same word had a different 
signification according as it is used as a portion of land under tillage, or as a 
measure of taxation. In some counties also eight virgates went to the hyde in 
place of four ; and a further source of confusion is engendered by the use of the 
same contraction for the words “caruca” and ‘‘carucata.” The latter word 
is frequently used as synonymous with a hyde of land, and Orderic Vitalis speaks 
of the carucate guam Angli hydam vocant. 
As regards the carucate, virgate, and bovate, the reader will find some very 
curious and interesting information in Seebohm’s “‘ English Village Community.” 
The hide or carucate he considers to be the holding corresponding with the 
possession of a full plough team of eight oxen. The half hide corresponds with 
the possession of one of the two yokes of four abreast; the virgate with the 
possession of a pair of oxen, and the half virgate or bovate with the possession 
of a single ox, all having their fixed relation to the full manorial plough of eight 
