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carucataa plough-land| the size of which varied. It is mentioned as containing "centum acras ad perticam nostram" (Cl. Roll. 19 H. iii. m. 8); and in the 15th cent. we find "ii. carewes and a half of lond conteynyng lxxx. acres." (E. C. P. 51| 314.) In some places it was 240 acres| or 8 oxgangs; a team of oxen sufficient to work a caruc [..]
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