in middle-age writers, is taken for all sort of standing corn in the blade and ear. The word is also written blatum, blava, and blavium.

In our old charters, the word bladum included the whole. whole product of the ground, fruit, corn, flax, grats, &c. and whatever was opposed to living creatures. It was sometimes also applied to all sorts of grain or corn threshed on the floor. But the word was more peculiarly appropriated to bread-corn, or wheat, called in French blé. Thus the knights Templars are said to have granted to Sir Wido de Meriton's wife duas fummas bladi.