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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 252

Pedes Finium - Feet of Fines 1196-1199 Richard I

de Husseburne, Willelmo de Warene, Ricardo de Herierd, Osberto filio Heruei, Justiciariis, et aliis Baronibus et fidetibus domini
Regis tune ibi presentibus.
   Inter JACOBUM de FUGELESTON, et THOMAM fratrem summ, petentes, et HENRICUM de SCORNES, tenentem.
   De j jugo1 et dimidio, tribus acris et una perca minus, cum pertinentiis, in COBBEHAM, et de duabus acris et dimidia prati in SCORNES,2 et de j jugo terre in HO,3 cum pertinentiis, et de servicio j jugi terre in EAST HERSTING, cum pertinentiis, et de xvij acris terre, cum pertinentiis, in COBBEHAM, que fuerunt ROBERTI DE HECSTED.
   Unde recognicio de morte ROBEBTI de FUGELESTON, patris eorundem JACOBI et THOME, summonita fuit in prefata Curia, scilicet quod prefatus HENRIOUS remisit ipsis, scilicet JACOBO et THOME et teredibus eorum, de se et heredibus suis, totum jus et clamium quod habuit in predictis terris.
   Et pro hoc fine et concordia et recognicione et quieto clamio, predicti JACOBUS et THOMAS dederunt eidem HENRICO xxxv marcas argenti. Et predictus HENRICUS fideliter eis in Curia domini Regis promisit quod nunquam contra eos, cum EMMA de DUNELEIA placitabit de terris unde predictam EMMAM vocavit ad warantum.
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                                Robert de Fugeleston =
                                    Dead 1197             |              
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           James de Fugeleston.                               Thomas.
                       1197                                              1197

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   In the Domesday surrey, the Jugum, or a " Yoke " of land, like "Solin," is confined to Kent. Matthew Paris and other writers would seem to consider "Jugum" as equivalent to a "Hide." In one passage in Domesday, the Jugum is made equal to half a Carucate, and in another to the fourth of a Solin. The Carucate varied according to the soil, it being as much as a plough could till in a year. Mr. Morgan (in his learned treatise, 'England under the Norman Occupation,' p.39) says—" 'Jugum terrae ,'a yoke of land, in Domesday, containeth half a ploughland (Co. Litt. 5 a). It may be the measure called a wist in the 'Battle Abbey Book,' containing fortyeight acres, set by the perch of sixteen feet (B. A. B. 19). "Uncertainty, however, must still rest upon our inquiries; for in these early times, when
                                                    
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     2 i.e. Shorne           3   i.e. Hoo

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