The carucate varied in different parts of the country, in Lincolnshire it was 120 acres.
Footnote 57: "There is a priest there having half a carucate of land in frank amoign.
A carucate was about 100 acres, but was a variable term.
The carucatewas not identical with the hide, but carucate and hide alike had originally meant a unit corresponding to a plough-team.
This leads us to inquire whether, even in the East Riding (where his theory works best), we may not find traces of that assessment by the six-carucate unit which I advocate myself.
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.
In the Domesday of Kent we find the form solin, or its Latin equivalent solinum, used for the unit of assessment, like the hide and the carucate in other counties.
Similar evidence as to the Domesday carucate is found in the Inq.
One must dissociate at the outset this six-carucate unit from the 'long hundred', or Angelicus numerus, with which Mr Pell confused it.
I shall now give some instances of Lindsey townships assessed on the basis of the six-carucate unit: Car.
The eight oxen, as Mr Seebohm has shown, are the key to the whole system of the carucate and the bovate.
A carucate is the extent cultivated by one plough in one year and a day (120 acres).
In some cases the carucate seems to be identical with the normal hide of 120 acres, but other instances show that the carucate varied in area.
The hide or carucate seems to be the holding corresponding with the possession of a full plough team of 8 oxen.
Relation of the virgate to the hide and carucate 36 5.
However, if we take, not the valuit, but the valet, we still have carucates that are worth much less than a pound, and it seems clear that the carucate had been worth much less than a pound in the as yet unravaged Yorkshire.
Of the 'five hide unit' I already knew a good deal; of the 'six carucate unit' I knew nothing.
In the financial system, as we have said, the carucate plays for some counties the part that is played for others by the hide.
With a bovate of 4 acres, ourcarucate would have no more than 32.
Fiscally they seem to be equivalent: that is to say, when every hide of Wessex is to pay two shillings, every carucate of Lincolnshire will pay that sum.
These entries, to use an argument which we have formerly used in our own favour, seem to imply that half a bovate is more than eight acres and would therefore give us a carucate of at least 144.
The manor of one carucate held by Leuenot seems to be another infringement of the traditional scheme, unless that carucate has been already reckoned among the four at Okeham.
To prove that the fiscal carucate was composed of 120 (fiscal) acres is by no means easy.
Will any one inform me what were the dimensions of a carucate of land, in Edward III.
The measure of the carucate was as indefinite in Edward III.
The object would appear to have been to obtain a carucate of equal value throughout the kingdom.
I have generally found that the nearest approximation to correctness, where no other evidence is at hand, is to consider the carucate as designating about 100 acres.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carucate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
