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The grain referred to as curaillum or curallum appears to have been 

 small com of wheat. Its price was comparatively low, and it was never 

 used for seed, except in one case, when it was mixed with " mancorn."* It 

 was generally accounted for separately, but in some cases it was included 

 with the wheat,^ barley/ and "mancorn"* respectively, although in the 

 last it was stated to be small corn of wheat. 



Harwell, Bright well and a few other manors derived a certain amount 

 of wheat from the custom of Churchscot, and at Fareham and Bishop's 

 Stoke a small quantity of rye and barley, respectively, was derived from 

 the same source. 



In addition to the cereals, the leguminous crops of peas, beans, and 

 vetches were occasionally grown, but in comparatively small quantities, 

 the largest area tilled being nine acres of peas at Alresford. Beans were 

 planted in the garden at Downton ° and apparently both beans and peas 

 in the new apple-orchard of the Church of Meon (East).* 



An analysis of the grain crops is given in an Appendix, which shows 

 in tabular form for each manor the total produce of each crop, the number 

 of acres sown, the quantity used for seed, the quantity sold, and the 

 average price per quarter. The following is a summary of the whole, 

 with the addition of corresponding figures for small corn and legumes, 

 the quantity consumed being calculated from the difference between the 

 total produce and the sum of the quantities sown and consumed or sold : — 



The most interesting fact revealed by these figures is the extremely 

 small yield of the various crops. Assuming that the total acreage and 

 quantity sown were approximately the same as in the preceding year, we 

 get the remarkable result that the yield per acre of wheat was only 4*3 

 bushelS; mixed corn 4*3 bushels, rye 4*5 bushels, barley 7'4 bushels, and 

 oats 8*2 bushels. It should, however, be noted that in the case of 

 Downton the produce of mixed corn was 50 quarters less than the 

 quantity sown and sold, owing perhaps to a clerical error in the account. 

 In all other cases the two sides of the account are either exactly 

 or approximately equal. It is also curious that, with the exception 

 of oats in a few of the manors, there was hardly any corn in hand 

 either at the beginning or the end of the year. However, it may 

 be that the corn in hand was not always entered, for at Taunton it 

 is stated that at the end of the year there were 65 quarters of oats 

 remaining in the grange, as well as two stacks of the same grain 

 and two stacks of wheat, although the whole produce of the year had 



1 p. 7, 1. 6. 3 p. 33, 1. 45. 3 p. 31, 1. 40. 



* p. 81, 1. 10. 6 p 22, 1. 29. « p. 48, 1. 11. 



