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(p. 94), and work in the harvest field (p. 167 ; 

 also in the appendix to Hatfield's Survey circa 

 1348, under Bailiff's A/ cs , and in the Manor of 

 Gravesend, see Cruden's History of same), and 

 thresh in the barn (Bailiff's A/ cs in Hatfield's 

 Survey, Surtees Soc.), and by negative evidence of 

 the last named reference, harrow and set out and 

 spread dung, as these items are not burdened on 

 the account.* 



Nowadays broadly speaking every 100 acres Im P rac - 



r i i , 11 \ i i ticability of 



of land (47 arable, 53 grass) has some 4 men, but the current 

 in 1086 there were not unless 3^56 of recorded 

 population per team ; if each ploughland really 

 had been 120 acres arable, and if all those noted 

 were actually manual labourers (an extravagant 

 postulate), then would there have been but 3 men 

 per 100 acres all arable, and none whatever for 

 the work of pasture and meadow. Now altho' 

 the crops then raised do not compare with the 

 present yield, it must be borne in mind for each 

 8 and 4 ox plough 2 men would be engaged (all the 

 year round as by theory), and if ploughs of 2 oxen 

 are to be considered, at least at the rate of 4 men 

 occupied in tillage per each 120 acres, which 

 exceeds the 3*56 found; whereas at this present 

 one ploughman would (in the North at least) 

 usually suffice each team ; and further the mow- 

 ing machine surpasses the scythe, the reaper the 

 hook, the steam threshing-machine the flail, and 



* Harrowing is sometimes noted, but where not accounted 

 for, the presumption is that the servants of the Manor per- 

 formed the operation. 



