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extremities of the " mesurabill " man (Ancient 

 Scotch Laws), and therefore very well short of 

 1 2 inches. It may be noted that the marks (some 

 yet in existence) representing the Banleuca of 

 Ripon are locally known as mile crosses, neverthe- 

 less on what authority I know not, the York- 

 shire Arch, and Top. Soc. have produced a modern 

 ancient map of the county, with a scale rating the 

 leuga at i^ miles, which I venture to think will 

 not be found applicable for areal measurement : 

 however the following examples are wrought from Yorkshire 

 that calculation, estimating a leuga in length by as Manors - 

 much in width, as equivalent to a rectangular block 

 of 1,440 acres. It will be observed that a piece 

 of ground of the shape of a right-angled triangle 

 by this computation would contain nothing unless 

 720 acres, and the nearer the approach to an 

 L shape, the lesser the extent ; in many of the 

 cases (below*) the impossible assumption that the 

 whole Manor was under the plough has been 

 made, for it is not always stated how much of its 

 extent was in wood, meadow, and common of 

 pasture ; where given, it is deducted from the total 

 manorial area as shown. For example in Little 

 Smeaton the Manor is given at i Jeuga long by 

 i as much wide, and unspecified underwood con- 

 tained therein ; this cannot be deducted and it is 

 calculated as a rectangular block of land entirely 

 tillage of 720 acres, and 13 teamlands of 55 acres 

 each, or less per actual plough (14 pis.). In the 

 2nd entry (Berg, i.e., Barugh) no ploughs are 



* See table, p. 129. 



