- or
bovates, and was a
quarter of a hide, the hide and the
carucate being effectively synonymous. A
peasant occupying or
working an
oxgang or
bovate might...
-
considerable local variation similar to the
variation in carucates, virgates,
bovates, nooks, and farundels.
These may have been
multiples of the
customary acre...
- the
township of Pwllgwyngyll, as it was then known, held a
total of 9
bovates of land from the
Bishop of
Bangor under the
feudal system. A
church was...
-
folio 36. In the
middle section Ralph de
Frescheville quitclaims two
bovates of land to Eleanor,
daughter of
Geoffrey Chamberlain, for
three marks in...
- and
abolished the
pennyweight (from 31
January 1969). Hide four to
eight bovates. A unit of yield,
rather than area, it
measured the
amount of land able...
- variable. The
Danelaw carucates were
subdivided into eighths:
oxgangs or
bovates based on the area a
yoked pair of oxen
could till in a year. In the rest...
- one and half carucates, and
Countess Judith who held 9
carucates and 2
bovates, and 30
acres of meadow. On the Countess's land were 46 socmen, eleven...
-
fourth share"). The
Danelaw equivalent of a
virgate was two
oxgangs or ‘
bovates’.
These were
considered to
represent the
amount of land that
could be worked...
- Wakefield, with 9 Berewicks... are 60
carucates of land 3
bovates and the
third part of 1
bovate to the geld. 30
ploughs could plough this land. This manor...
- greeting. Know that I hold from you by your
favour 16
carucates of land and 2
bovates [about 2,000 acres] by the
service of 10 knights. In
these 16 carucates...
