But this fact does not appear to clash with the supposed connexion between the hide of 8 bovates and the manorial plough with its team of 8 oxen.
The contents are not given, but as the services evidently are doubles of those of Selkirk, it may be inferred that the husband-lands each contained 2 bovates (i.
Here then at Boldon were 22 villani, each holding two bovates or 30 acres, equivalent to a virgate or yard-land.
In another, 8 villani hold 8 bovates, and 3 bovatesare waste.
Robertus holds 2 bovatesor 36 acres, and renders half a mark.
The same instinct which led the scribe to enter these seven bovates as half a carucate plus three bovates, led him also to enter ten and a half carucates as half a hide plus a carucate and a half (fo.
Richard Gilleson, who held there in the same manner 2 messuages and 2 bovates of land, is dead.
John son of Richard Gillesson came here into Court and rendered into the hands of the lord 2 messuages and 2 bovates of very poor land there to the use of Thomas de Chellowe for ever.
William Barne, who held 2 messuages and 2 bovates of bondage land in Manningham, is dead.
William Clerk of Clayton, who held a messuage and 2 bovates of land in Clayton by knight service, is dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bovates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
