crannoca

crannoca, ~us [cf. W. crynnog] , crannock, curnock, dry measure ranging from ½ quarter to 2 quarters: a (of grain or sim.); b (of salt or sim.). Cf.Ac. Trin. Dublin 212. a 1182 pro xl cronoc’ frumenti Pipe 108; 1184 pro ‥ cc cranocis frumenti Pipe 110; 1186 pro quater viginti crenocis frumenti Pipe 200; 1187 c cranochos frumenti Pipe 157; 1190 pro cc ‥ crennoccis fabarum Pipe 53; 1212 r.c. de vm cccclxij cumbis de hivernagio. inde liberavit ijmcccxxj et dim. cumbas in terris seminandis. ‥ et dxxj et dim. cran’ ad mittendum usque A. [N.B. cran’ here = cumba] Pipe Ir. 32; 1215 lxx ~os farine avene Cl 223a; 1223 cc cronoccos de blado Ib. 559a; c1225 xij †cannocos fabarum vel pisorum Ch. & Rec. Heref. 57; s1230 pro iij †cronnis frumenti Ann. Worc. 421; 1234 bussellus unde xij ad ~um Cust. Glast. 81; 12‥ tenet ‥ terram ubi potest seminare de yvernagio iij †cronnas et de tramesia iij quarteria, excepto warecto Reg. Pri. Worc. 89a (cf. ib. 106b: percipit ‥ unum †cronnum ‥ ad faciendum panem); 1294 de gavello fab[r]orum vj crenocas frumenti de cranoca Lewelini (RentSurv. R. 769) Tribal System app. 24; 1296 pro xl cran’ brasii avene, quolibet cran’ continente xvj pec cumulat’; et sic faciunt iiijxx quarteria Angl’ KR Ac 232/21 (cf. Cal. Ir. IV 345); 1300 de lix crannok’ dim. brasei avene molite receptis de ij navibus venientibus de partibus Hybernie ‥ et de cxxx crannok’ dim . ‥ receptis ‥ de diversis mercatoribus Hibernie ‥; summa crannok’ ciiijxxxiij, que faciunt in quarter’ Anglie, quolibet crannok’ valente ij quarter’, ccciiijxxvj quarter’ AcWardr p. 125; 1305 de vj †cranonicis frumenti captis Mem. Parl. 418; 1327 j tassus avenarum continens xvj ~os de montana (Invent. Clonaul) RIA Proc. XXVI 372; 1334 idem betagii solebant reddere ‥ iiij vaccas, iiij porcos et iiij crannuc’ AncExt (Connaught) 52 m. 9; 13‥ summa de frumento de veteri mensura xlv crannoc’; et fecit de nova mensura xxxiij crenoc’ et vj peck (BB Ch. Ch. 225) Ac. Trin. Dublin 212.  b 1232 de placito xx solidatorum redditus et ccc ~orum salis in Kyhavene [Hants] CurR XIV 2128; a1275 reddendo ‥ annuatim ‥ c ~os salis [ad] lardarium nostrum Cust. Glast. 168; 1470 reddendo ‥ j carnocum salis Cart. Glam. 1692; 1474 habet ‥ in sale iiij cranoc’ ‥; item in prunis lapideis [ed.: ‘saltpetre’] sex cranocas, prec’ xvj s. Wills Dublin 83 (cf. ib. 69: j carnocam salis).