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and 8 ſervants. Five villagers and 8 borderers occupy 4 ploughlands. Here are 40 acres of meadow. The paſture is a mile and a half long, and 3 quarters of a mile broad; and there is the ſame quantity of wood. It was alued at 40 pounds when Albicius took poſſeſſion of it; now at 10 pounds. Azor held theſe 3 manors T. R. E. All theſe lands belonged to the Earl Albicius. But they are now in the King's hands.


XXIV.
Rents of Edward of Sarisbury.

Edward the ſheriff receives yearly from the rents which belong to the ſhrievalty 130 hogs, and 32 flitches of bacon. [1] Two loads and 1 bushel of wheat, and the same quantity

of
  1. I do not pretend to be exact in this Conſruftion of Modus and Sextarius; as the antiquarians differ ſo widely about theſe meaſures, that they cannot be aſſigned, with any certainty, to our preſent meaſures.