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so forth as to other labour saving economies un- 

 known T. R.W. Then supposing 3-56 men really 

 aid work 120 acres arable />/#.? the supplemental 

 grass land, it is difficult to conceive how at hay 

 time and harvest the i^ men (for by hypothesis 

 the other two are ploughing) even with the assist- 

 ance of women, etc., would get in the crops, and 

 supervise the stock at pasture; whereas it appears 

 that in 1348-9 (Bailiff's A/ cs Manor of Quaring- 

 don) a harvest of some 160 acres was got in in 

 4 weeks (23 days) by 8 hired men in the ist and 

 2nd weeks, 40 in the 3rd, and 20 in the last, at a 

 cost of 5d. and 4d. per day per man, with doubt- 

 less unnoted assistance from women, etc. 



Manor of In the Manor of Cuxham (7 Ed. I., Rot. Hund., 

 lxham ' and 26 Ed. L, Rogers' Hist. Agr. citing Survey) 

 were 2 carucates of land in demesne with works of 

 8 half virgaters in 1279, but in 1317 (Bailiff's 

 A/ c ), and 1332-1350 (Rogers' Hist. Agr. pre- 

 sumably from uncited A/ cs ) were 3 ploughs culti- 

 vating a varying acreage of some 170 sown acres, 

 which Rogers has extended by fallow as 232 ac. 

 (1332-3), and 258 ac. (1350-1), which of course 

 is an estimate. 



Manor of In the Manor of Cotum (Bailiff's A/ cs , 1348-9, 

 otum. Hatfield's Survey) were in demesne 27 oxen, 

 4 horses, 6 ploughmen, and at least 3 pis. (six 

 or more noted in the A/ c ), 189 sown acres by 

 weeding, and by seed A/ c 69 ac. Wheat, 110 ac. 

 Oats plus some 4 qrs. of Peas sown; in c. 1377-80 

 (Hatfield's Survey) the total arable is returned as 

 242 acres. 



In the Manor of Quaringdon (same ref. date 



