ferlingus

ferlingus, ~a [ME ferling < AS feorþling] 1 a fourth part, ‘ferling’, measure of land, usu. one fourth of virgate; b (Cornw; cf.Capt. Seis. Cornw lix n. 3). V. et. 1 ferthingus 1. in burgo Huntedone sunt iiij ~i. in duobus ~is fuerunt TRE et sunt modo cxvj burgenses DB I 203; inde habet rex j ferlinum et ij carrucatas in dominio et villani iij ferlinos et v carrucatas DB I 108; ? 1135 quod ‥ libere teneant ‥ j ~um terre de Cerchilla et j ~um terre Cokesleg MonA V 198a (= Regesta 1912); c1160 totam terram de Kineverdesham [Keynesham, Som] sc. iij ~os quos tenemus Cart. Glam. 141; 1200 unum ~um terre in U. cum communa pastura de Dertmor’ RChart 70a; 1225 de dimidia virgata et dimidio ~o terre Pat 581; c1235 Willelmus de E. tenet v acras terre, sc. j ~um Cust. Glast. 127; 1293 xvj ~i terre in dominico, quorum quilibet continet in se xvj acras Fees 1308; 1356 in defectu redditus j messuagii j ~i terre native Crawley 270; 1454 unum farlingum terre et prati Cl 303 m. 11d..  b 1300 convencionarii ‥ tenent ‥ [MS illegible] ferling’ Cornub’ et ij acras Angl’ IPM 95/3d.; 1337 Nicholaus Volon tenet ‥ j mes’ iiij acr’ terre Angl’ in dim’ ferl’ terre in T. ‥ Willelmus Soor ‥ tenet ‥ j mes’ viij acr’ terre Angl’ in j ferl’ terre Cornub’ in Tewyn Capt. Seis. Cornw 53 (m. 10d.). 2 one fourth of penny, farthing. b gold farthing, one fourth of noble. V. et. 1 ferthingus 2. 1277 viijclxj li. vj s. v d. ob. et ~us EHR XXXII 73; 1280 allocabuntur eidem magistro [monete] unus denarius et unus quadrans in decasu argenti ad ignem et unus denarius et obolus in emendacione ‥ monete, ita quod ‥ allocabuntur ei in qualibet libra undecim ~i Doc. Eng. Mint 60 (= RBExch 985); quod ipse faciet ~os per Angliam qui nunc sunt rotundi et Lundrenses vocantur Ib. 61 (= RBExch 986); 1304 pro monetagio ccl li. ~orum monetatorum ibidem KR Ac 288/30 m. 7; 1351 per servicium iij s. et ij d. et j ferlyngi Reg. S. Aug. 331; 1369 de ‥ decem et novem solidatis et tribus denariatis et medietate unius ~e redditus Pat 279 m. 15.  b 1414 cc pecie minores [l. minoris] floreni dicti ~i auri concordant eciam in pondere cum standardo libre Turris [London’] Pat 394 m. 29; 1425 (v. florenus 3b).