(carucata), in our ancient laws and history, denotes a plough land, or as much arable ground as can be tilled in one year with one plough.

In Doomsday Inquisition, the arable land is estimated in carrucates, the pasture in hides, and meadow in acres. Skene makes the carrucata the same with hilda, or hilda terra; Littleton the same with foc.

The measure of a carrucate appears to have differed in respect of place as well as time. In the reign of Richard I., it was estimated at 60 acres, and in another charter of the same reign at 100 acres; in the time of Edward I., at 180 acres; and in the 23d of Edward III., a carrucate of land in Burcester contained 112 acres, and in Middleton 150 acres.

By a statute under William III., for charging per-