- An
oxgang or
bovate (Old English: oxangang; Danish: oxgang;
Scottish Gaelic: damh-imir;
Medieval Latin: bovāta) is an old land
measurement formerly used...
-
considerable local variation similar to the
variation in carucates, virgates,
bovates, nooks, and farundels.
These may have been
multiples of the
customary acre...
- the 11th year of
Henry VI's
reign (1433), a Sir
Robert Plumpton held a
bovate of land
called “Wolf hunt land” in Nottingham, by
service of
winding a horn...
-
folio 36. In the
middle section Ralph de
Frescheville quitclaims two
bovates of land to Eleanor,
daughter of
Geoffrey Chamberlain, for
three marks in...
- and
abolished the
pennyweight (from 31
January 1969). Hide four to
eight bovates. A unit of yield,
rather than area, it
measured the
amount of land able...
- the
township of Pwllgwyngyll, as it was then known, held a
total of 9
bovates of land from the
Bishop of
Bangor under the
feudal system. A
church was...
- held at the
Derbyshire Record Office (Hatfield de
Rodes papers)
where a
bovate of land 'in the
territory of Lyndrick, in Wudsetes' is mentioned. Other...
- greeting. Know that I hold from you by your
favour 16
carucates of land and 2
bovates by the
service of 10 knights. In
these 16
carucates of land I have 5 knights...
- variable. The
Danelaw carucates were
subdivided into eighths:
oxgangs or
bovates based on the area a
yoked pair of oxen
could till in a year. In the rest...
-
fourth share"). The
Danelaw equivalent of a
virgate was two
oxgangs or ‘
bovates’.
These were
considered to
represent the
amount of land that
could be worked...
