Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxlands
Literary usage of Oxlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sutton-in-Holderness: The Manor, the Berewic, and the Village Community by Thomas Blashill (1896)
"The oxlands pasture juts in between the parishes of Marfleet and Drypool at "
Chimney lands nook," which name must have been applied to land in or near the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages by Ronald Edward Zupko (1985)
".Wales: 8 oxlands = 64 customary acres. 1888 Round 3.192: Except in their virtual
and independent agreement that the ploughland, the essential unit, ..."
3. The Visigothic Code: (Forum Judicum) by Visigoths, Samuel Parsons Scott (1910)
"... or "oxlands," being as much arable soil as could be tilled by an ox, usually
fifteen acres, but varying according to country and custom. ..."
4. Rules for the Interpretation of Deeds. With a Glossary by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Robert Frederick Norton, James William Clark (1889)
"Wales: 8 oxlands=64 customary acrea ROOD OF LAND=4 acre—40 perches=^l,210 sq.
yds., but it was often provincially used for rod, or a measure approaching to ..."
5. The Diary of Abraham De la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary by Abraham De la Pryme, Charles Jackson (1870)
"... touching the rectory of Sutton, the site of the college of the said rectory,
23 acres of arable glebe, 32 acres of meadow, 23 beast gates, oxlands Close ..."
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