REPLY1850
Carucate of Land
By L. B. L.
The measure of the carucate was as indefinite in Edward III.'s time as at an earlier period. It then, as before, represented as much land as could be worked with one plough in a year. I am fortunately enabled to give your correspondent E.V. a precise answer to his Query. In a MS. survey of the Hospitallers' lands in England, taken under the direction of Prior Philip Thame, A.D. 1338, which I transcribed from the original, among the records of the order, I find in the "extent" of the "Camera de Hetherington in comitatu Northampton,"— "Item. v Carucate terre continentes vc acre terre: pretium cu…
Topics: Historical Land Measurement, Medieval Agriculture, Surveying
Locations: England, Hetherington, Northampton, Eagle, Lincolnshire