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daiwercata

daiwercata [cf. ME dai werk] , ‘day-work’, measure of land worked in one day. c1270 sex daywercatas terre mee [in Tilbury, Essex] Rec. Coll. Merton MS no. 1257; 1339 Alis R‥. reddidit in manum domini j acram et j rodam iij daywercatas et terciam partem j daywercate terre ‥ ad opus Willelmi S. (Ac. Man. Blackmore) MS Essex RO D/DK M 108 (cf. ib.: j cotagium et ij daywercatas terre); 1356 unam porcionem prati mei ‥ continent’ unam daywercatam terre in toto Doc. Coll. Wint. (Cranfield, Beds; Elias ate Hethe to John Barnet) ; 1383 de placito duarum ~arum terre et dim. (Coggeshall, Essex) PlRCP 491 r. 436; 1412 j virgatam et j daywerkatam [terre] CatAncD VI C 5314.

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