[Loch-Ruadh] Speaking Forsoothly - Daily Lesson 25

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to the kingdom and ,
the one from who all blessings flow

                                                                  as long
as it is land   and some one does not take it literally   my hide is mine
and mine alone   i do not need skinning despite what my lady says       one
nervous wolfie
> [Original Message]
> From: Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin <padraig_ruad at irishbard.org>
> To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
> Date: 1/8/2007 10:36:47 AM
> Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Speaking Forsoothly - Daily Lesson 25
>
> Number and Measures – 5
>
> Administrative units
>
> * Bovate - the amount of land one ox can plough in a single year
> (sometimes called an oxgate). Approximately 15 roods or one eighth of a
> carucate.  (See Lesson 23 for definitions)
> * Hide - four to eight bovates. A unit of yield instead than area,
> measuring the amount of land needed to support a single household for
> growing and tax purposes.
> * Knight's Fee - five hides. A knight's fee was expected to equip one
> soldier for a knight's retinue for war.
> * Hundred  or Wapentake - 100 hides grouped for ennumeration and record
> keeping.
>
> Shakespearian Word/Phrase of the Day:
> 	Obscured course – A secret, or disguised way of life.
> 	“To keep safe his guilt, he doth proceed upon an obscured course.”
>
> Padraig
> -- 
> Nunc est bibendum.
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