Robert Cotton, Of Dimension of Land (ca. 1599 - 0 1600)

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Date
1599ca. 16000
Book title
A collection of curious discourses, written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities
Publication place
Oxford
Transcription source
Hathitrust
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
  • antiquities
  • weights and measures
Summary
Written for the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
178-80
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: In latter time here in England they divided their land into hides, usually taken for sixscore acres, carucate, and acres; and af­ ter, for I find none of them mentioned in Domesday, into virgatas or seliones, being un­ certain according to the custom of the coun­ try.
ESTC
T112502