Note 605 — Chapter XI · FOLCLAND. BÓCLAND. LǼNLAND.

This seems an immense amount of barley, but the Saxon clearly reads as I have translated. The old Latin version has, “Dare debet in festo Sancti Michaelis x. den. de gablo, et Sancti Martini die xxiii et sestarium ordei et ii gallinas.” Twenty-three pence at Martinmas is a considerable sum; however as a sester of corn must even in ordinary years have been worth quite that sum, it is more reasonable to follow the Latin than the Saxon.