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halva

halva [ME half, halve, helve] , measure of land, half-acre. 1229 concessit ‥ unam rodam ‥ et unam longam helvam terre ‥ et unam smalehelvam juxta terram Ricardi ‥ et unam helvam que vocatur Delhelva Fines Suss 238; a1260 j dim. acram terre in a[u]strali campo de Cheping Lamburn [Berks] ‥ que ‥ ad capud australe extendit super longam ~am que fuit Willelmi le P. DL Cart. Misc. III 44; 1285 in crastino utriusque precis metet j helvam frumenti (Cust. Loventon) Sussex Rec. Soc. LVII 17; debet compostare j helvam ad frumentum et aliam ad ordeum (Cart. Boxgrove) Villainage in Eng. 227; 1304 si metet j helvam j garbam in renco habebit Ac. Man. Wint. (Houghton) ; 1391 j helvam terre Loseley MSS 338/32; 1403 j helva voc’ Pykedehalf, et jacet in quodam stadio voc’ Oldelond Ac. Man. Coll. Wint. Fernhill Misc. no. 3; 1428 ij helvis terre arabilis ‥ in communi campo vocato le Westfeld’ (Madehurst) MS W. Suss RO Add. 271; 1493 unam helvam terre jacentem in Mettelond, vocatam Rewhelve AncD B 2480.

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