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eight acres make ten acres and a half rood, and sixteen 

 acres make twenty acres and a rood. And the acre which 

 is measured by the perch of twenty feet makes one acre 

 and a half and the quarter of a rood, and four acres 

 make six acres and a rood, and eight acres make twelve 

 acres and a half, and sixteen acres are twenty-five acres. 

 And the acre which is measured by the perch of twenty-two 

 feet makes one acre and a half, and a rood and a half and 

 the sixteenth of a rood, and four acres make seven and a 

 half and quarter of a rood, and eight acres make fifteen 

 acres and a half rood, and sixteen acres make thirty acres 

 and a rood. And the acre which is measured by the perch 

 of twenty-four feet makes two acres and a rood, and four 

 acres make nine acres. 



The return from the products of the grange. 



As to the issue of the grange, one must see how much 

 there is sown of each corn and how much it yields for issue 

 by right and common return ; barley ought to yield to the 

 eighth grain, that is to say, a quarter sown should yield eight 

 quarters ; rye should yield to the seventh grain, and beans 

 and peas to the sixth. And dredge of barley and oats, if 

 equally mixed, to the sixth, but if there is more barley than 

 oats it ought to yield more, and if there is less barley than 

 oats, less. And also the mixtelyn of wheat and rye, if it is 

 equally mixed it should yield to the sixth, and if there is 

 more rye than wheat it ought to yield more, and if there is 

 more wheat than rye, less. And wheat ought by right to 

 yield to the fifth grain and oats to the fourth, but because 

 lands do not yield so well one year as another, nor poor 

 land as the good, and besides it may happen that the winter 

 sowing takes well and the spring sowing fails, and some- 

 times the spring sowing takes well and the winter sowing 

 fails, and because, if the land does not yield more than was 

 sown, then the lord loses, and if it yield less he who renders 

 account pays it himself. And so one cannot be sure of the 

 vield above mentioned and not because many people take 



