xSurveying of land
No. of pages: Fol. 91r-v
Rubric: The manner of metting and measureing of land after the custome of Scotland
Incipit:
- Imprimis it is to witt that three bear cornes without tailes, set togither in length, makes ane inch, of the quhilk cornes one should be taken of the midle of the rigg, ane of the side and ane of the furrow, and so being mett by the root of the neck of a mans thumb. Twelve inches makes a foot of measure. Three feet with the third part of a foot makes ane elne. So forty inches makes ane elne ... Four ruids makes ane aiker. Fifteen aikers makes ane oxgang. Four oxgangs makes a ploughgang
Explicit:
- laid without fraud or guile
