[55] Fishwick’s “History of St. Michael’s–on–Wyre,” Chetham Soc., xxv. (new series), p. 2.
[56] In the original document the names are often very different to the ones now in use, but they have all been identified as referring to the localities above given.
[57] “There is a priest there having half a carucate of land in frank amoign.”
[58] Said to be waste.
[59] Other forests are named at Latham, Aughton, Milling, Lydiate, and other places.
[60] The hora was not a coin, but an equivalent for about 1s. 6d. or 1s. 8d.
[61] In South Lancashire it is believed that six carucates made a hide. A carucate was about 100 acres, but was a variable term.
[62] This will serve as a proof that foresta (= a wood or forest) was not necessarily a dense mass of trees, but rather a place where game of every kind abounded.
[63] Their individual holdings are 3 hides and half a carucate, 2 carucates, 1½ carucates, 1 carucate and 2 carucates = 3 hides and 7 carucates. Their united holding is put down as 22 carucates, so that a hide in this case equals 5 carucates.
[64] Bentham (in Yorkshire), Wennington, Tatham, and Tunstall are described as four manors, where there were three churches.