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17. An Acre by the 31st of deletion Edw I & /deletion add Edward

                                       I. and /add by the 12th of Henry VIII.

contains 160 Poles or perches, deletion & /deletion add and

    /add we find that in Henry III. and deletion Edw I /deletion add Edward I /add time Forest Ground was measured by a Pole 
                                                                                of 20.foot.

A Selion by the 9th of deletion Edw III /deletion add Edward III

                                                               /add 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 add and /add 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 add and /add Coin comes next to be considered.

There appears to have been very little money in this Country at the Norman Invasion, deletion & /deletion add and /add

     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

                               add and /add they have ever since

been made in Gold, Silver, Dogs,Hawks, &c.