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in some of the shires, whose total area would be 

 unable to furnish the acres required which result 

 would also sometimes occur if the actual teams (in 

 place of the teamlands) were taken. 



How much of the acre per head as thus found 

 from King's tables would be subtracted for stock, 

 there is no material to determine, but Fitzherbert 

 writing t. Hen. VIII. (probably a Derbyshire 

 squire and farmer) does not, if I remember rightly, 

 allow any very considerable proportion of corn 

 for the working oxen. King's estimate for the 

 consumption of Bread, Bread Corn, Cakes, Biscuit, Consump- 

 Pastry, Pudding, and all things made of meal and Bread- 

 flour is 155. 8d. per head* p. a., and 'tis clear he Stuffs ' eic ' 

 calculates practically all the Wheat and Rye, and 

 part of the Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas under 

 this item, presumably the produce (by his mode 

 of estimation) of -^ acre , as roughly by King's 

 figures 14 bush. p. acre (rather less) was the 

 yield from some f of 10,000,000 acres under the 

 plough in 1696, and as in 1333-5, some n bush, 

 p. acre (rather more) are found in practice ; then 

 should there be, by these figures, some 8^ million 

 sown acres in 1086 for an assumed population Population 

 of 5^ millions (as in 1696); but as the popula- r f e bi?uiat 

 tion in 1086 cannot be shown to have exceeded 

 that amount (/'.., about 1,800,000), then would 

 2,830,000 sown acres have sufficed, and therefore 

 it is hard to imagine a total exceeding 6,000,000 

 arable acres, which allows for much of the plough- 

 land being under a 2 course shift, *j* and some of it 



* In the anon. Husbandry (c. t. Hen. III.) farm servants 

 have an allowance of I qr. of corn per 12 weeks. 



f There is a great deal about 2 and 3 course shifts in 

 Yorkshire (with reference to gheld rate) in Canon Taylor's 

 " Ploughland and the Plough," the furrows of which systems 



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