Two carucates of land, for example, brought in only forty shillings, on account of the pestilence and general poverty and deaths of the tenants.
The manor held by her was at a place called Sadington, in Leicestershire, and two carucates of land are represented as lying uncultivated and waste "through the want of tenants.
Apple trees and other fruits were fenced off in the garden.
The knight's fee contained mostly four or five full ploughs or carucates, and still in Lincolnshire sixteen carucates went to the knight's fee[477].
Bovates and virgates exist only as parts of carucates or hides, and the severalcarucates or hides themselves fit together, inasmuch as they suppose a constant apportionment of some kind.
Nay, to the men of Lincolnshire there could be no more question that twelve carucates made a 'Hundred' than there could be now, among ourselves that twelve pence make a shilling.
Footnote 154: This at once shows the absurdity of taking these eighteen carucates to be eighteen 'virgates' of a normal hide, and of all the reasoning based thereupon.
We learn from the evidence to which I am coming that the eight carucates in Swinford and Walcote, and the two in little Ashby which Robert de Buci had held in 1086, were in the hands of Geoffrey Ridel ninety years later.
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.
As for the version given by Mr Waters, even in the very first Wapentake, there are three serious errors, five carucates being given as three, nine as seven, and eleven as two!
To do this, virgates may mean hides, carucates may mean virgates, and, in short, anything may mean anything else.
In Rockland Simon holds 3 carucates of land which one freeman, Brode, held in the time of King Edward.
Edward also had in this hundred Penwortham (Peneverdant), where for two carucates of land 10d.
Footnote 61: In South Lancashire it is believed that six carucates made a hide.
Some of the surnames at once suggest this; for example, we find Godiva, the widow of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, returned as having three carucates of land in Melling.
The record generally begins with the number of hides or carucates at which the whole manor was rated according to ancient assessment.
In Warlavesbi 6 carucates for geld; there may be 4 teams.
There are 13 carucates of land less one bovate for geld; 8 teams can plough them.
There are x hides orcarucates for geld to be distributed.
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.
But we have a new set of units of assessment; instead of carucates and bovates, we have hides and virgates.
A: in other words, of the number of hides, carucates or sulungs.
The expansion of the 3 carucates into 4, mentioned in Domesday Book, was probably (as in many other recorded cases) due to the reclamation of land hitherto waste in flood or forest.
The passage here quoted from Domesday Book is the following: “In Horncastre Queen Editha had 3 carucates of land, free of gelt.
Domesday Book, describing the soke of the Manor of Horncastle, says “In Morebi there are 3 carucates of land (or about 360 acres).
Herbert de St. Quintin on the one part, and Ascelina de Waterville and Matilda de Diva on the other part, the two latter being tenants of 3½ carucates of land (i.
There are twocarucates of land there, and they used to pay ten pence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carucates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
