![]() : Item, j towell with a lyst, a quarter brode of blew. : Unam tuellam de twill cum nigris lystez.duas tuellas cum planis egges. : And tabula is in oon significacioun a mete bord.holdeþ.vessell þat ben sette þer-vpon and is arrered and sette vpon feete and y-clipped wiþ a lyste aboute. : Sipers cum latis lystes vocatis cremell'. In the first place the aforesaid king Henry, by thee counsel of all his barons, for the preservation of peace and the observing of justice, has decreed that an inquest shall be made throughout the separate counties, and throughout the separate hundreds, through twelve of the more lawful men of the hundred, and through four of the more lawful men of each township, upon oath that they will speak the truth….: His targe wiþ gold list He carf atvo. You can see one of these terms used in medieval documents, such as Assize of Clarendon, written in 1166: waste - land that could not be cultivated or used for farming.league - the distance a person could walk in about an hour, which varied between a mile and a half and three miles.hundred - an area representing 100 hides that made up part of a shire.hide - the area of land necessary to support a family for a year - varied based on land quality usually about 120 acres.furlong - the length of a furrow from a plough (furrow-long) 220 feet.bovate - approximately 15 acres the amount of land an ox and plough could keep in cultivation for an entire year.benefice - a land grant given to members of the aristocracy.appanage - the estate with land belonging to a royal prince.acre - still used today to measure land the amount of land an ox could plough in a single day. ![]() There are a number of medieval terms for land and distance measurement, some of which, like “acre,” are still in use today. Provided, that in thus retaining their service, the lords are preferred before others of their bondsmen or their land tenants: so, nevertheless that such lords thus retain as many as shall be necessary and not more and if any man or woman, being thus sought after in service, will not do this, the fact being proven by two faithful men before the sheriffs or the bailiffs of our lord the king, or the constables of the town where this happens to be done,-straightway through them, or some one of them, he shall be taken and sent to the next jail, and there he shall remain in strict custody until he shall find surety for serving in the aforesaid form. You can see some of these terms used in a real medieval text in this example from The Statute of Laborers, written in 1351: vassal - a free man who swore his loyalty to a lord.tenant - a man who rented land from the landowner.squire - a man with an income that was not a knight. ![]()
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