[840]. Add 20 acres of mead and pasture, and a wood, 6 quadragenæ long by 2 wide. (Ibid. p. 137.)
[841]. Add 91 acres of mead, pasture and forest. (Ibid. p. 138.)
[842]. Add 86 acres of mead, etc., and a forest a leuga and a half square. But there was also land not geldable which sufficed for 20 ploughs; and the 20 geldable hides were calculated at 30 ploughs. Taking the same proportion, we ought to reckon not 30 but 33⅓ hides in Pilton, which at 30 acres would give 1000 arable; at 40 would give 1333⅓, while the whole acreage is but 1210. This would exclude the calculation of 40 acres; but we cannot trust the merely approximate supposition that the land of 20 ploughs was to be reckoned in the same proportion as that for 30.
[843]. Taunton properly is 52½ geldable hides, and land for 20 ploughs not geldable. The 65 hides are made up subject to the same error as the last calculation. The appendant manor of Lidgeard, with the meadow pastures, etc., amounting to 519 acres, is also to be added, as well as forest a leuga long, by a leuga wide, and pasture two leugæ long by one wide.
[844]. To these add 149 acres of mead, etc. Forest 12 quad. long by 3 wide: again forest 12 quad. long by 2 wide, and 6 quadragenæ of marsh.
[845]. From feower, four. Feorling or Feorðing are similar formations, and denote a fourth, or farthing in money or land: also in corn (a quarter of corn), and in the wards of a city. Ellis. Introd. p. l.
[846]. Exon. D. f. 227. vol. iii. 206.
[847]. Ibid. f. 233. vol. iii. 212.
[848]. Ibid. f. 234. vol. iii. 213.
[849]. Ibid. f. 235. vol. iii. 214.