[17] A carucate was generally about one hundred acres of arable soil, or land in cultivation; this word superseded the Saxon hyde, which signified the same thing.
[18] The whole of the vills of Amounderness, here signified, amounted to sixty-one.
[19] Regist. S. Mariæ de Lanc.
[20] Regist. S. Mariæ de Lanc.
[21] Held in the reign of Henry I., 1100-1135.
[22] Held in the reigns of Stephen and Henry II., 1135-1189.
[23] Duchy Rolls, Rot. f. 12.
[24] To rise at five, to dine at nine, to sup at five, to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
[25] Although England had been divided into counties the different districts were for long classified under the names of the old provinces or petty kingdoms of the Heptarchy.
[26] Vale Royal, Cheshire, obtained a grant of the manor, etc., of Kirkham in 1296.