[23]. A ‘carucate’ was the amount of land that a team of eight oxen could plough each year. It varied in size according to the nature of the soil, but may be roughly taken as being equal to 120 acres. An oxgang was one-eighth of this.
[24]. The value of money was in 1086 approximately twenty times its value at the present day. The Domesday ‘pound’ meant, not a coin, but a pound weight of silver.
[25]. The following are the internal areas of the three largest churches in Britain:—
| St. Nicholas’, Great Yarmouth | 25,023 | sq. ft. |
| St. Michael’s, Coventry | 24,015 | " |
| Holy Trinity, Hull | 21,756 | " |
[26]. The brickwork of the chancel and transepts of Holy Trinity, Hull, is probably the ‘earliest existing example of mediæval brickwork in England.’ These portions of the church were built during the first quarter of the fourteenth century.
[28]. This was a chapel, dedicated to the ‘Holy Trinitie,’ which James Helward, a townsman, founded in 1285. It stood where the chancel of Holy Trinity church now stands, and was pulled down when the present transepts and chancel were built a few years later.
[29]. In 1280 the monks of Meaux owned 11,000 sheep and 1000 beasts.
[30]. Close to this Carthusian monastery Sir Michael also built—in 1384—a Maison Dieu, or Hospital, for twenty-six poor men and women, ‘feeble and old.’ Its buildings were pulled down during the second siege of Hull, but afterwards replaced by others. This is the ‘Charterhouse’ that exists to-day, the present buildings dating from 1780.
[31]. The prayer with which the daily life began was this: ‘O Lord God Almighty, Who hast brought us to the beginning of this day, so assist us by Thy grace, that we may not fall this day into sin, but that our words may be spoken and our thoughts and deeds directed according to Thy just commands.’