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A Short History of English Agriculture

Note 157 — Chapter V

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Cullum, Hawsted, p. 182. Another instance of the difference in value between arable and tillage. At the inquisition of the Manor of Great Tey in Essex, 1326, the jury found that 500 acres of arable land was worth 6d. an acre rent, 20 acres of meadow 3s. an acre, and 10 acres of pasture 1s. an acre. Archaeologia, xii. 30.

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