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in a rotation partly grass,* but counted as arable, 

 which presumably would occur in other counties 

 than Cornwall. Hence some 70 acres per plough 

 would follow, and but three score or less might be 

 calculated if the land in grass (in rotation, and 

 estimated as arable) were excluded ; and this 

 amount (60 acres) seems to have been Agarde's 

 estimate of a ploughland in Q. Elizabeth's days.f 

 The well-known Poll Tax Returns 1377, 1379, 

 and 1381 bear on the matter ;J the population at 



are yet to be discovered by the zealous antiquary, and the 

 rotations identified ; these arguments (which seem to have 

 little support from D. B.) appear to arise from certain entries 

 (even better represented in Lines.), where the jurors roughly 

 estimate the teamlands as in proportion to the gbeld rates ; 

 thus 364*7, 2 1 bovates for gheld, land to 2 as many oxen ; 



Meadow, 

 1086. 



Terra 

 dupliciter 



arandum. 364.6, 1 3|- bovates for gbeld, terra dupliciter ad arandum ; 

 compare 352*2, ^\ bovates for gkeld^ land to 5 oxen, which 

 is similar to the last named, but that it would have seemed 

 singular to write, land to 27^ oxen ; see also 350*7, 351*7 

 (ter), 351^ and 352*7 ($//) ; for cases where the teamland equates 

 the gheld 343^, 344^ (bis), 348^ (bis\ 350^, 351*7 (quinquies), 

 351^, 353*7, 358/7, 362^; where the Teamland is half \hz gheld 

 349^ ; and other simple proportions occur in this county. 



* Not of course meaning "rotation grasses"; see note, 

 p. 22 ; also as illustrating meadow, etc., vide f D. B. zb ; 

 as much meadow as pertains to 10 ac. of land ; 38^ ; 465. of 

 herbage; 134^; land to \ pi. ; meadow to J pi., and los. 

 over, a mill of 35. and 200 eels, the whole worth 205. ; 142^, 

 Meadow 6s. and 45. of hay ; 143^, Mea. to 3 pis., and 203. 

 over ; 143^, Pasture to stock, and hay to farm of Archbp. for 

 8 days ; 156*7, of hay los. ; 183*7, Of mea. 55., besides pasture 

 to oxen ; and 376^ ; the men of N. detain i6s. of the 

 customs of the pastures. 



t A Ploughland, which is about Three Score Acres ; p. 10 

 App. Reg. Hon. de Richmond. 



t For 1377, refer to " Archaeologia," vol. vii., which gives 

 a more extended return than that published in Powell's 



