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- noun Plural form of
carucate .
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Examples
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Roughton twelve oxgangs rateable to gelt, with three sokemen, and a half sokeman holding two carucates of land with three draught oxen; also fifteen acres of meadow land, a fishery worth 2s. yearly, and forty acres of woodland, containing pasturage in parts.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Berdic, the Jester of the Court of William the Conqueror, for instance, was considered of so great importance that three towns and five carucates were conferred upon him.
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In the whole there are fifty carucates to be taxed, which twenty-seven ploughs may till.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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The number of ploughs, of oxgangs and carucates, and of villanes and bordars in each manor is given in Domesday, but to give each extract in full would take up much space and would be a little wearisome.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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Dieu was celebrating mass in the Forest for the souls of the King, his successors, and ancestors, holding two carucates of land, ten acres of meadow, and six acres of wood, a fact which may account for the name of
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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He also gave them two carucates of land, and a mill in Sunderland Wick, as also the town of Karkarevill, which by the monks of that house was assigned to their cell at Wederhal in Cumberland.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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In 8 Edwarvl I. the King grants'** and confirms to his beloved and faithful John dc Wallop, three carucates and a half of land in BallihauUs, and one carucate and a half of land in Balliotyrc, to him and hii heirs for ever, in satisfaction of Triginia LihraJta - rum TerrtK, which he had granted him for his services, to hold of the King and his successors, by the service of one Koigbfsfee.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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Agnes his wife, and Adam his son and heir, joining with him therein, amply endowing it with twenty carucates of land, each carucate then containing sixty acres.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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He also gave the church of Middlesburgh with two carucates, and two novates, of land in Nehuham, to the monks of Whitby in Yorkshire, on condition that they should place certain of their convent there; with which they complied, and made it a cell to their abbey.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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(tenants) with half a carucate, and four villeins with two carucates, and twenty-four acres of meadow, and two hundred and eighty acres of wood containing pasturage.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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