The English village community, examined in its relations to the manorial and tribal systems and to the common or open field system of husbandry; an essay in economic history . ^ make 40 square rods, or a rood; and thus, asthere are 4 rods in breadth, the acre of the scale withwhich the normal strips coincide is an acre made upof 4 roods lying side by side. Thus the strips are in fact roughly cut acres, ofthe proper shape for ploughing. For the furlong isthe furrow long, the length of the drive of theplough before it is turned ; and that this by longcustom was fixed at 40 rods, is shown by
The English village community, examined in its relations to the manorial and tribal systems and to the common or open field system of husbandry; an essay in economic history . ^ make 40 square rods, or a rood; and thus, asthere are 4 rods in breadth, the acre of the scale withwhich the normal strips coincide is an acre made upof 4 roods lying side by side. Thus the strips are in fact roughly cut acres, ofthe proper shape for ploughing. For the furlong isthe furrow long, the length of the drive of theplough before it is turned ; and that this by longcustom was fixed at 40 rods, is shown by the use ofthe Latin word quarentena for furlong. The word rood naturally corresponds with as many furrows inthe ploughing as are contained in the breadth of onerod. And four of these roods lying side by side made PAKT OFPURWELL FIELD, HITCHIN. so 30 4ofbles The Hitchin Open Fields. 3 the acre strip in the open fields, and still make up Chap. statute acre. This form of the acre is very ancient. Six hundred* ^^^ ^^^• 1 T -n 1 • T 1 /•* • 1 cient. years ago, m the earnest Enghsh law fixmg the sizeof the statute acre (33 Ed. I.), it is declared that 40 perches in length and 4 in breadth make an acre. ^And further, we shall find that more than a thousandyears ago in Bavaria the shape of the strip in the openfields for ploughing was also 40 rods in length and 4 •rods in width, but the rod was in that case the Greekand Eoman rod of 10 ft. instead of the Enghsh rod of161 ft. But to return to the Enghsh strips. In many Half the open fields were formerly divided into half-acre strips, which were called half-acres. That is tosay, a turf balk separated every two rods or roods inthe ploughing, the length of the furrow remainingthe same. The strips in the open fields are genera
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