1 1 1 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



2 course shift, of which respectively ^ or i in bare 

 fallow ; for the former take 1 80 ac., for the latter 

 crops 1 60 ac. (in each case statute), plough once for 

 and twice for fallow ;j~ allow 8 weeks for holy 

 days (presumably including the 3-4 weeks noted 

 in Custumals at the Nativity, Easter, and Pente- 

 cost, and the time occupied by the ploughmen on 

 their own holdings, etc.), leaving 44 weeks for 

 unbroken aration, thus 



THREE COURSE SHIFT. Dav 



Perpetual . . L>a ^ s 



Aration. 180 acres (120 ac. in crop, 60 ac. in fallow) at |- ac. 



per day ... ... ... ... ... ... 25"T 



*6o acres (znd fallowing) at I ac. per day ... ... 60 



Add for Sundays 44-f- 

 Total 3~i o 



TWO COURSE SHIFT. Days 



160 acres (80 in crop, 80 in fallow) at |- ac. per day 182^- 

 80 acres (2nd fallowing) at I ac. per day ... ... 80 



262$ 

 With Sundays, Total c. ut sup. 



in either case, the total working out as above, viz., 

 nearly exactly 44 weeks. 



The above has been construed to mean that for 

 a continuous period of 44 weeks the ploughmen 



^ fyrald de Barri (t. Hen. II.) remarks the neglect of 

 t. Hen. II. husbandry of the Welsh, stating they only plough once each for 

 wheat and oats in winter and spring, and twice in summer 

 the husbandman leaving his oxen on occasion of war, whereas 

 the theoretical ploughmen (ut sup.) are depicted as having 

 little existence other than as members of their teams. 



* In Canon Taylor's learned paper on "The Ploughland 

 and the Plough," the accomplished writer seems to imagine 

 that (in a 3 Course Shift) either fallow land was unploughed, 

 or that each team ploughed 240 acres. 



