[17]. I insert this note (sent to the Academy in August 1896 by the late Mr. F. J. Furnivall, who found it in a Bodleian MS.) because it happened to direct my attention to our measures, and was thus the seed whence this book has sprung. The yardland and hide are here of less than half the usual extent.
[18]. Orthodoxly A.S. gaard is considered to be unconnected with geard, a yard or rod.
[19]. Whence the term ‘lug’ = rod? I venture a derivation:
1. Lug, the ear.
2. Luggie (Sc.), a milking vessel with handles or lugs.
3. Lug, lugge, of land, that can be metely sown with a luggie of seed-corn.
4. Lug, the rod-length of the lug of land.
5. Lug, a rod, as for ‘waling’ fruit trees.
[20]. Concordantly with the sexdecimal system of corn-measures into 4 sesteirado, or 8 eiminado. See Seed-measures in Section 10.
[21]. Quoted in the New English Dictionary, a treasury of quotations, which has often put me on the track of valuable information.