The Jersey Vergée or rood is 40 square perches = 0·44 acre.
2. Guernsey.—The linear measures are based on the English standards. They were, in 1611:
| Cloth yard | = 38-1/2 | inches (= half a toise). | |
| Sail Cloth yard | = 44 | „ | |
| English ell | = 45-1/2 | „ | |
| English yard | = 36 | (Verge d’Angleterre). | |
The perch or verge is 21 feet; probably an approximate adaptation of the common perch of 20 French feet = 21·3 English feet. It is the same as the Irish and Lancashire rod.
The verge or rood is 40 square perches = 0·4 acre.
The acre-unit is not used now in either island.
The bouvée (bovate) of 20 vergées, and caruée (carucate) of 12 bouvées remain only in manorial records.
Measures of Capacity
1. Jersey.—The standard ordered in 1754, and confirmed in 1771, is the Cabot, defined as containing 10 Pots.
The Pot contains 123·56 cubic inches = 0·445 Imperial gallon. It does not correspond directly to the Paris pot = 111 cubic inches or 0·41 gallon, nor apparently to the various Normandy pots, of which that of Caen, about Paris standard, is the type. It is simply one-tenth of the Cabot.