INTRODUCTION XXV 



C. The Canterbury MSS. form a group by them- 

 selves ; they have the same divisions as the Luffield group, 

 but titles are given to all the chapters. There are some 

 peculiarities which distinguish the text of this family from 

 that adopted in all the other MSS. In the chapter on 

 ploughing, the quarentina is described, by a slip, as forty 

 perches l broad as well as forty perches long. The breadth 

 is correctly given as 66 feet, however ; but it is said that 

 forty turns of the plough can be made in the acre, which 

 would give eighty furlongs ; and these eighty furlongs are 

 stated to form four leagues of twenty furlongs. This league 

 of two and a half miles is shorter than our present league, 

 but much longer than the league mentioned in all the other 

 MSS. This consisted of twelve furlongs only, or a mile 

 and a half, and, when thirty- six turns of the plough were 

 taken in the acre, the team travelled six leagues. Besides 

 this difference, the Canterbury MSS. transpose the sen- 

 tences about the weeks in the year, and the length of the 

 furrows. In the chapter about the dairy there is another 

 transposition : the information about cows runs straight 

 on, and the sentences about ewes conclude the chapter. 

 The transcriber had also omitted the first sentence of the 

 chapter about preparing manure (Vostre estuble, p. 18), but 

 added it at the conclusion of the whole treatise, where it is 

 not particularly appropriate. This group consists of five 

 MSS., four of which were copied at Canterbury, two (2, 10) 

 are still in the Cathedral Library, one (12) is in the British 

 Museum, and one (15) in Trinity College, Cambridge ; and 

 there is also a fourteenth century transcript (11) in the 

 University Library at Cambridge, which gives no clear 

 evidence of the place where it was written. 



D. The remaining group consists of MSS. which adopt 

 the arrangement used in the Liber Horn. This has the 

 same divisions as the Luffield and Canterbury groups, 

 but the name of Walter of Henley does not occur in the 

 title of the treatise, and the separate chapters have lengthy 



1 But this is correctly given in University Library, marked Hh. iii. 

 the transcript in the Cambridge 11. 



