The hide was translated into the Latin in which legal documents of the period Hides were to supply one fully armed soldier. Was not a geometrical unit of area, and its size varied. The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development.Īs a unit based on the land’s productivity, the hide But this will not explain all and local and national peculiarities, as well as variations at different times, and differences in the quality of the land, must be taken for granted. A hide of thirty acres in a system of common cultivation would represent such an allotment in each of the cultivated areas, i.e., if there were four common fields, it would be 120 acres. Used to express the whole share of one man in all the fields of his village. Greatest inconsistencies in the use of these words may arise from their being The later hide was no doubt 120 or 100 acres. 88-102: G L von Maurer,Įinleit[ung zur Geschichte der Mark-, Hof-, Dorf- und Stadtverfassung und der Öffentlichen The mansus, mansa, manens, cassatum, terra aratri, of the charters are all interpreted to mean the same thing, although they may have had local differences. German hoba is made to contain thirty or forty acres. But though his argument obviates many difficulties, it opens the I., 88 sq., attempts to fix it at thirty-three acres or thereabouts, or 120 acres of a size one-fourth of the present acre. History of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest], Necessary here to dilate Kemble, Saxons [in England a On the vexed question of the extent of the hide it is not In later times the hide = 120 acres, often naively assumed to be = 100 acres, but in the original sources describing the hide as a hundred acres, it is the long, or great, hundred, 120, that is meant. In this role it was ultimately replaced by the knights fee. In England, 5ᵗʰ or 6ᵗʰ – 16ᵗʰ century, an Anglo-Saxon unit of land area, conceptually the amount of land needed to support a peasant family, “acres sufficient for one plow for a year¹.” Much of the 19ᵗʰ-century controversy concerning the size of the early hide arose from thinking of it as a unit of area, when in fact it was one by which taxes were assessed.
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