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land_n	according_a	fee_n	knight_n	1,614	5	9.7365	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01017	Feudigraphia The synopsis or epitome of surueying methodized. Anatomizing the whole corps of the facultie; viz. The materiall, mathematicall, mechanicall and legall parts, intimating all the incidents to fees and possessions, and whatsoeuer may be comprized vnder their matter, forme, proprietie, and valuation. Very pertinent to be perused of all those, whom the right, reuenewe, estimation, farming, occupation, manurance, subduing, preparing and imploying of arable, medow, pasture, and all other plots doe concerne. And no lesse remarkable for all vnder-takers in the plantation of Ireland or Virginia ... Composed in a compendious digest by W. Folkingham. G.	Folkingham, W. (William)	1610 (1610)	STC 11123; ESTC S102453	47,378	98

bound with Gum-water very thinne and bodilesse And it shal not be amisse to pounce the ground with a Stainsh Graine of burnt Allome and a double quantity of pounded Rossin both finely fearced and lightly pummiced thereby to preserue the Paper or Parchment from thorowe-piercing with the Colours Compartiments are Blankes or Figures bordered with Anticke Boscage or Crotesko-woorke wherein Euidences or other Memorables may be abreuiated And these may bee contriued in Parallelograms Squares Circles Oualls Lunaries or other mixt or voluntary proportions compassed and tricked ad libitū Vnder this Title may also be rainged the Lordes-Coate with Crest and Mantells And these Compartiments with the Scale Carde and Kalender must bee bestowed in couuenient spare and voide places CHAP. VII HItherto of Mensuration Content in generall is Couchant and Crescent The Couchant is either Superficiall or Solid The first is of Land Water Board Glasse and all Surfaces and Figures But before wee come to entreat of the Areas of Figure it is not immateriall to enumerate how this Superficiall Content is diuersly distinguished for Land as into Pearches Daies-woorkes Roodes Acres Oxegangs Yard-lands Plow-lands Hydes There be also other quantities of Land taking their denominations from our vsual Coine as Fardingdeales Obolates Denariates Solidates Librates Foure square Pearches make a Daies worke 10. Daie-workes a Roode or Stong 4. Roodes an Acre The Fardingdeale or Farundell Quadrantata terrae signifies a Roode or ¼ of an Acre so that if Obolata D●nariata Solidata and Librata doe arise in proportionable graduation from Quadrantata as the moneyes do increase in valuable Estimate then must the Obalat be ½ Acre the Denariat an Acre the Solidat 12. acres the Librat 240. vide Crompton lurisd and Regist Origin .1 But we read Viginti libratas terrae vel reditus in Fitzh .87 and Regist Orig. 49. and 248. importing it séemes so much land as yéeldes 20. s. per annum So you shall read further 249. Regist Centum Solidatas terrarum tenementorum redituum But for Roodes and Acres they differ in Content according to the power of the extent or lineall Fall of the Pearch Potentia rectae est quadratum Et dupla ratione quadrupla proportione Yet the Surueyor whether he be imployed in Woodland or Champion in the Forrest of Shéere-Wood where the Acre containes aboue 2 ¼ of Statute Acres in Corne-wal where it amounts almost to 140. acres or elsewhere howsoeuer Customes haue accrewed must make his Computation by the standard Notwithstanding that the Lords Demaines as appeares by auncient Surueys haue béene measured by the 20. foote Pole called Maior Mensura and the Customary lands by a Pole called Mensura Minor viz. 16. ½ though some claime 18. foote· So the French Arpent or Acre containing 100. square Poles is laid-out in th'admeasurement of woodes by the 22 foot Pole this is called the Kings Arpent their other lands are computated by the Pole of 20. 19 ⅓ or 18. foot Poles The Oxe-gang or Oxengate according to Skene called Bouata terrae containes after the originall repute 13. acres but we find it more or lesse as the custom of the place inures and Bouata is properly vsed of Lands in Gainour viz. vsually plowed Foure Oxe-gangs of land extend to a Pound-land Librata terrae of old extent The Yard-land Virgata terrae siue quatrona terrae varies from 20 24 30 acres M. Lamberd and it is not reputed in Demesne but in Gainor as are also fodi●a minera mercatus A Plow-land or Carue of land Carucata terrae that is quantū aratrum arare potest in nouali tempore is said to containe 4 Yard-land at 30 acres to the Yard-land A Hide of Land Hida or Hilda terrae is saide to be such a portion of land as may be tilled with one teame according to the seuerall tilthes and seasons in a yéere and a day and so Crompton and the Author of the new Tearmes affirme it to be 100 acres by statute therby confound Hida with Carucata or make them little different Others say that euery Hide of land containes 4 plow-Plow-land at 120 acres and 4 Hides a Knights Fée A Knights Fée Feudum Militare is so much Inheritance as is sufficient yearely for the maintenance of a Knight and his competent retinewe with conuenient reuenewe which in the time of H. the 3. was 15 pound but Sir Thomas Smith Repub. Anglorum rateth it at 40 pounds per annum But for the quantity of land M. Camden recordes it to be 680 acres or 800 acres After some computations it containes 5 Hydes of land each Hyde 4 yard-Yard-land at 24 acres In the Dutchie of Lancaster a Knights Fée contains 4 Hydes of land each Hyde 4 plow-Plow-land each plow-Plow-land 4 yard-yard-land at 30 acres amounting to 1920 acres Two Knights Fées make a Cantred 2 Cantreds ½ and ⅙ make a Barony one Barony and ½ makes an Earledome viz. 38400 acres But though these proportions of land doe not alwaies hold with their titles of honour yet their denominations continue the originall institution and howsoeuer they be dismembred quoad quantitatem yet the right and dignitie is indiuisible insomuch as if a Capitall Messuage be Caput Comitatus vel Baroniae it may not be parcelled And the Reliefe depends vpon the dignity rather then the quantity after the first allotment viz. 100 s for a Knights Fée 100 Marks for a Barony and an 100 pounds for an Earledome Mag. Chart. But to returne to the finding out of the Areaes of Figures CAP. VIII FIgures with their Calculations for superficiall contents may be thus rainged To areate Figures 1. Multiply the perpendicular in the demibase vel Contra. 2. From the mediatie of the sides vnited subduct each side seuerally eradicate the ductat of the said mediatie and remainders Ramus Multiply the length by the breadth Idem lib. 11.6 Square the latus Idem l. 12.23 Multiply the semiperipherie by the perpendicular from the Center to the midst of one side Idem 19.1 1. Multiply the Radius in the semiperipherie Idem 19.2.1 2. Multiply the quadrated Diameter by 11 diuide the product by 14 19.22 Radius by 22 diuide the product by 7 19.22 semiperiphery by 7 diuide the product by 22 19.22 Multiply the Radius in the demi-Arch line 19.4 Turne it to a Sector by proiecting a Radius from each extreame of the Chorde to the Center then woorke vt supra deducting the Triangle Ibidem Adde the Base to the other Areaes Multiply the side in the semiperipherie of the Base 22.10 Multiply the altitude in the periphery of the Base 21.12 In these 2. add Basall Areaes Multiply the diameter in the Circumference Or the Plaines Area by 4. R. 21.5 1 Multiply the Basall Area by 6. 2. Duplicate the squared diameter of the contayning Spheare 3. Triple the square of

same and so be consolidated and become one in vse But to returne Demesnes are all such lands as haue béene time out of minde helde in occupation and manurance together with the Site of the Mansion or Manour House called in some places Berries Halls Manour places Courts and Court-houses for maintenance of the Lords house These Demesnes were called of the Saxons who had the substance though not the name of Manours Inlandt and by Bracton lib. 4. Bord-lands and the Seruices Vtlandt in opposition though it may in some sort be restrained to comprehend onely Lands Tenements and Hereditaments yéelding Rents of Assize viz. originall and set in certainty as for Frée-hold Copie-hold or Customarie land all which are Parcel in Seruice For the Diuision of Seruices they may be all comprehended vnder Chiualrie and Soccage Chiualrie or Seruitium Militare is a Tenure or Seruice obliging the Feudatarie personally to performe vnto his Lord some honorable or Martiall office And this confers to the Lord the Heire being in Non-age at the Fathers death the Reall Seruices of Wardship Marriage and Reliefe in lieu of the Personal Seruice which the Heire in regard of minority is not able to execute Chiualry or Knight-seruice is deuided into Regall and Common Regall Chiualrie is solely confineable to the King and is properly called Sergeantie And this holdes either méerely and immediately of the King as of his Crowne which is a Corporation and Seignorie in Grosse and is then further called Tenure in Capite or Chiefe Or mediately of the King by reason of some Honour Manour Castel Fitzh Kitch Sergeantie Sergeantia or Seriantia is either Grande or Petit. Grande Sergeantie is where Lands are helde of the King by some noble Seruice performeable by the Tenant personally Petit Sergeantie is where Lands are held of the King to yéeld him annually some small military furniture towards his warres Common Chiualrie is that Seruice which may indifferently be confined to the Prince or to a common person and is called Escuage viz. Shield-seruice which is either Vncertaine or Certaine Escuage vncertaine is of two sorts First where the Tennant is Tenure-bound at his owne cost and charges to follow his Lord in the Kings warres or to send a sufficient man in his steade there to continue according to the proportion of his Fée viz. after the rate of 40. daies for a Knights Fée Secondly where he is bound by himselfe or his Deputy to defend a Castell so oft as it shall come to his course or turne and is called in this case Castel-warde Ma. Cha. 20. Escuage Certaine is where the Tenant is set at a certain pecuniarie charge viz. 20 shillings for a Knights Fée in lieu of such vncertaine Seruices as aforesaide And this léeseth the nature of Knight-seruice and is in effect Socage though not méerely because it smels not of the Plowe though it still retaine the name of Escuage Na. Br. 84. Litl CHAP. VI. SOccage Soccagium is a Tenure of Lands obliging the Feudatary to the performance of certaine inferiour and husbandly seruices vnto the Lord of the Fée sans Wardship mariage Reliefe Soccage is also capable of the distinction of Chiefe and Common Soccage in Chiefe or Capite is that which holdes immediatly of the King as of his Crowne Praerog 41. Common Soccage is that which holdes of the King or some other Capitall Lord by meanes of some Manour Ibidem Soccage is either Franck liberum or Base Villanum Franke Soccage is where in lieu of seruice in kinde asumme of money is paid to the Lord. Base Soccage is a Seruile kinde of Tenure and is deuided into Villanum Soccagium and Purum Villenagium The first is where a determinat Seruice is performable by reason of the Tenement and not of the person of the Tenant The other is where the Feudatarie is lyable to vncertaine and indeterminat Seruice at the absolute and instant will and demaund of the Lord. Bracton Na. Br. 94. Yet may a man sans impeach of fréedome in regard of his person hold in Pure Villenage Nor is liberum tenementum impeached to him that holdes it in Villano Soccagio if it be to him and to his heires Bracton There be other branches of Soccage as Burgage Frank-Almoine And Copy-hold saith Kitchin 80 is a base Tenure and was originally called Villenage Fitz. 12. But to retaine the moderne appellation some of this is Méere Copy-hold and escheats forthwith to the Lord by Felony Kitch 81. And some is of more eminence and held by Verge in auncient Demeisne according to the Custome of the Manor being in effect a kinde of Frée-hold though reputed Copy and yéelds to the King Annum diem Vastum vpon Felony Some Copy-holds are fineable at the Lords will and some only are lyable to a certain rate and this is a kind of inheritance called Customary not simply at the will of the Lord. But there is a kinde of Customary Land of the Ancient Dutchy of Cornewall and other places where the Tenants haue no Transcripts of the entries of their admittances And this was called Folke-land and the Tenants may be termed Tenants by Court-Roll according to the Custome of the Manour But where the Tenants are by reason of the Transcripts of admittances called Tenants by Copy of Court-Roll there the Land is Charter-land or Bockland Kitch 86.89 For the Definition of a Copy-holder reade West in his Symbol 1. parte 646. And for the various Customes of Copy-holders in seueral Manours 't is as néedlesse as endlesse to capitulate or enumerate them in this Tractate But both méere Copy-holde may be conuerted into Fée and likewise Fées changed from their first institution by feofment as out of Chiualry for certaine yéerely Rent into Fée-Farme sans further duty than is specially comprised in the Graunt except Fealty alone which by probability is still on foote because it is inseperably incident to all Tenures For whosoeuer is invested in Fée though in the fréest maner holdeth perfidem fiduciam that is by Fealty at least Smith Rep. Anglorum 3. And Dwarenus saith that Fidelitas est substantia Feudi Fée-Farme is a Fée and importeth a perpetuity to the Inuestée and his heires for an annuall Rent of the third or fourth part of the Value Fitzh 210. But if the Rent reserued be behinde and vnpaide for the space of two yéeres then may the Feoffour or his heires by Action recouer the Lands as their Demesnes Britton 66. And land thus held comes néere to the Nature of Ager vectigalis amongst the Ciuillians And hitherto of the Propriety of Possessions It remaines to intreate of their Valuations THE SYNOPSIS OR EPITOME OF SVRVEY METHODIZED SECTION IIII. How Possessions are to be valued by reason of their seuerall issues Rents Perquisites Priuiledges and other profits with