 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 676 pages
...assessed in one and the same record in rates varying from 100 to 200 acres, according to the locality. Land was measured by a compromise between superficial...the ox could not feed were excluded from the ox-gang (bovata). The ridges and balks over which the scythe could not mow the grass were not reckoned in the... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1864 - 764 pages
...Instead measured " " d of trundling the theodolite, they yoked the oxen and sped the plough. Thus, the carucate consisted of so much land as the ploughshare...feed were excluded from the ox-gang. The ridges and uwo-11uu balks over which the scythe could not mow the grass, were not reckoned in the "day-math :"... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1864 - 766 pages
...DyoinMd'i of trundling the theodolite, they yoked the oxen t•omission. and spe(^ ^Q plough Thus, the carucate consisted of so much land as the ploughshare...halfdrowned plashes which sunk beneath the tread, or tho soil studded with jutting rocks, where the husbandman could not turn up the glebe, were no portion... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1921 - 892 pages
...of trundling the hodometer measured A '-• ttomescu tney yoked the oxen and sped the plough. Thus, the carucate consisted of so much land as the ploughshare...where the ox could not feed were excluded from the ox -gang. The ridges and balks over which the scythe could not mow the grass, were not reckoned in... | |
 | Natural history - 1869 - 574 pages
...acres. The next sentence is incomplete. " In the domain there is one caruka." The caruka consisted of as much land as the plough-share could furrow in the course of the season. " And seven borders with one team." A bordar received what land he held only as a loan from his lord,... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1869 - 842 pages
...acres. The nest sentence is incomplete. " In the domain there is one caruka." The caruka consisted of as much land as the plough-share could furrow in the course of the season. "And seven bordars with one team." A bordar received what land he held only as a loan from his lord,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1878 - 578 pages
...assessed in one and the same record in rates varying from 100 to 200 acres, according to the locality. Land was measured by a compromise between superficial...the ox could not feed were excluded from the ox-gang (bovata). The ridges and balks over which the scythe could not mow the grass were not reckoned in the... | |
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Land was measured by a compromise between superficial extent and productive value. Instead of trundling the theodolite, they yoked the oxen, and sped the plough. The carucate consisted of so much land as the ploughshare could furrow in the course of the... 