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9 j u a Plough 9 acres ; Wldeham, 10 jugas each 

 2 acres per plough, and 6|- jugas (of the 10) a 

 further 6J acres ; precations only noted in South- 

 fleet, but perhaps demandable in the other Manors. 

 68 juga therefore possess 6o|- ploughs, or / 'plough 

 to 45 acres, and in no case more than 4 acres 

 recorded as done in addition on the demesne : that 

 thtjttgum is computed at 40 acres is obvious from 

 entries on p. 6, thus 2 juga pay 8 id. gavel, 

 \ jugum 2od., 8J acres 8^d., 3 juga and 14 acres 

 us. 2d.,~* etc. : from p. 10 it appears the reeve must 

 be a virgater (Heddenham, co. Bucks), and during 

 office has 4 oxen in the lord's pasture. 

 Agricui- I would further submit that tenants of 2 virgates 

 details of may easily be rated at 8 oxen, of i v. at 4 oxen, 

 anVisth anc ^ f lesser quantities, in proportion (more or 

 centuries, less), at any rate in the I2th and I3th centuries, 

 and that these amounts were sometimes exceeded, 

 in support of which as follows. In the Burton 

 Chart. A.D. 1114 (p. 30 Wm. Salt Soc. Coll., 

 Staffs) a note of 4 virgates inland, that is land of 

 2 pis. which are there with 16 oxen ; in 1189 

 custumal of Glastonbury (Roxb. Soc.) men of 3, 

 5, 10 acres, and \ virgate all plough at precations 

 (pp. 22, 61-2), a 3 acre man to join his ox if he 

 has one (p. 28) ; 17 virgaters to plough each 

 with 8 oxen (p. 123), and in a later custumal of 



* The rate is of course id. per acre, but (as may be ob- 

 served from the note on pp. 8, 9, in this vol.), the most simple 

 agricultural arithmetic is apt to bewilder the erudite, hence 

 an explanation (deemed advisable to clear the morning mists 

 from the learned mind) which for the ordinary reader would 

 be esteemed entirely superfluous. 



