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1348-9) were in demesne 27 oxen, 3 horses, Manor of 

 6 ploughmen, at least 3 pis. (others named in A/ c ) J u n aring " 

 with 164 acres by reaping, and by seeding 66 acres 

 Wheat, 88 ac. Oats, and 9 sown bush, of Barley 

 but no fallow defined ; the gaps and omissions in 

 these A/ cs do not give sufficient data for the other 

 Manors. 



The areal carucate as shown varied from 60 to 

 1 60 acres (H. R., 1279) in co. Beds, but in 

 St. Paul's Domesday (Camd. Soc.) in 1222 are 

 720 acres in demesne by 3 pis., to wit 3 carucates 

 of 240 acres each, that extent being possible by 

 the large services owed by the tenants on some 

 c,ooo acres on the old Manor of Adulfsnasa, of Manor of 



1-1 TIT i i T-I Adulfsnasa. 



which Waleton was a portion, with Thorpe, 

 Horlock and Kirkby. To the writer on ancient 

 Agriculture it is perhaps all one whether a plough 

 goes 60 acres or 240 in the year (or at best 

 accounted for by lighter and heavier soils);* not so 

 however in actual practice, nor yet in records, if 

 read with care and discretion. 



There appears formerly to have been consider- Mediseval 



,, . f r . i i i measures 



able variation in agricultural measures, and it isofagricui- 

 probable that a change in the quasi-standard quarter tu 

 occurred /. Hen. III., in which reign it seems to 

 have had 8 bushels, each weighing (for wheat) 

 c. 64 Ibs. Troy, such pound containing 7,680 wheat 

 grainsf " taken in the midst of the ear." This 



*" The comparative rainfall has a much greater influence Rainfall, 

 under this head, as by the number of days in a year in which 

 land can be worked. 



t Vide Statutes cited as fi Hen. III.; jr Ed. I.; and 

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