The eight oxen, as Mr Seebohm has shown, are the key to the whole system of the carucate and the bovate. |
There was a priest having half a carucate of land in frank almoign. |
On the other hand, if the carucate paid two shillings, its value has been stated in some abnormal fashion. |
The Lordship of Golcar is recorded in the Domesday Book as including half a carucate of taxable land and woodland pasture one league long and half a league wide. |
A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey. |
I have throughout assumed that 120 acres make the hide or carucate. |