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An Acre by the 31st of deletion Edw I & /deletion addition Edward I. and /addition by the 12th of Henry VIII. contains 160 Poles or perches, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition we find that in Henry III. and deletion Edw I /deletion addition Edward I /addition time Forest Ground was measured by a Pole of 20.foot.

A Selion by the 9th of deletion Edw III /deletion addition Edward III /addition is half an Acre.

A Yard of Land contained in many places the fourth of an Acre.

William the Norman divided the Kingdom into 60,000. Knights fees, every Knights fee containing 5.Hides, which were generaly estimated at 480 Acres, which makes the total of Acres in the Kingdom to be 28,896,000. whereas England at present is supposed to contain above 40,000,000 of Acres; this great difference must have proceeded from Wales deletion & /deletion addition and /addition some of the Northern Counties not being included in the Norman admeasurement.

This is all we find worth mentioning with regard to the measures of ground, the Value of Bullion deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Coin comes next to be considered.

There appears to have been very little money in this Country at the Norman Invasion, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition during the Reigns of Several of the succeeding Princes, the Common payments were made by Personal service, Work, provisions &c. the Crown Rents were exhausted in necessaries for the Household, but in Henry V. Reign, these services &c. were converted into Money, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition they have ever since been made in Gold, Silver, Dogs, Hawks, &c.