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the evidence (quite unconsciously of course) is 

 given by an author who is at great pains to support 

 the opposite (D. B. and Beyond), an epitome of 

 the matter in aforesaid magazine is here appended. 

 In 1086 (D. B.) the Manor of Wilburton had 



3 ploughs in Demesne, in /<?77 there were 216 

 acres arable ; /. Ed. II. 4 ploughmen (i.e., 2 

 ploughs), and 128 acres reaped ; in 1426, 246 

 acres arable: as to the Villeinage in 7,277 were 

 15^- full lands, of 24 acres each, total 372 acres, 

 which Prof. Maitland particularly notes as being 



Details equivalent to statute ones ; /. Ed. I. for winter 

 refute 11 anc ^ s p rm g ploughing were due from each full land 

 scholastic one ploughing (the work of one man for one day, 



theories of , r , * *. v ,. . , j- \ 



Agricui- but each 2 ploughings reckoned as i diet) per 

 week for 28 weeks (30 less 2 at Christmas) total 

 by theory ^j^, and noted as actually done in 



4 consecutive years, 420^, 406, 377, 406, say 

 400 winter and spring ploughings p. a. The 

 amount of ploughing not being given, let it be 

 supposed that 2 ploughings (i.e., the work of 

 2 men for i day) yield an acre ; then (/. Ed. L) 

 are some 200 acres (once ploughed) performed by 

 the villein teams alone, taking no account of 



5 free tenants, who owe 5 days' tilling each. In 

 1381 the full lands each owed i day's Somererthe 

 (i acre per day), 2 days' Nederthe (i acre, as 

 g- acre each day), and all the tenants owed 2 boon 

 ploughings (bringing all the oxen they had), which 

 latter with almost certainty they may have been 

 said to owe /. Ed. I. ; in /. Ed. II. Prof. Maitland 

 states that about 55. per an. (2d. a plough each day) 

 was expended as regards, for the boon ploughers 



