- soil and
fertility makes its
actual figure wildly variable. The
Danelaw carucates were
subdivided into eighths:
oxgangs or
bovates based on the area a yoked...
-
called Goda. Goda held 12
carucates of land,
three of
which were held in tax to the Danegeld. The King held
three carucates in
demesne and
three socmen...
- pay
under Edward the Confessor. The
areas of
ploughland were
counted in
carucates: the land a
farmer could manage throughout the year with a team of eight...
- yoke. The
arable land is 5
carucates. In
demesne there is 1
carucate and 17 villeins, with 3 boarderers,
having 4
carucates.
There is wood for the pannage...
-
Edward Mollande gelded for four
hides and one ferling. The land is
forty carucates. In the
domain there are
three barons and ten
serfs and
thirty peasants...
- (45 hectares) in Suffolk, In perspective, a knight's fee was 5
hides or
carucates (varied widely). Each hide was
between 100 and 110
acres (40 and 45 hectares)...
- was
subject to
considerable local variation similar to the
variation in
carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.
These may have been multiples...
-
virgate was the
amount of land
tillable by two oxen in a
ploughing season. A
carucate was the
amount of land
tillable by a team of
eight oxen in a ploughing...
- 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 of land I have 5 knights...
- the
survey made on the
orders of
William I in 1086,
states in
hides (or
carucates or
sulungs as the case
might be) the ****essed
values of
estates throughout...
