DIVISIONS TERRITORIALES. — MESURES DE TERRES
« He (Howel) measured this Island from the promontory of Blathaon in Prydain to the promontory Penvaed in Cernyw (Cornubia) ; and that is nine hundred miles, the
length of tins i.-luml; and from Crigyll in Mon toSoram on theshore of ihe Mer Udd, wiob is Bve hundred miles; and Ibal is the breadth of iliis island. »
a The cause of lus measuring the island waa that he might know Ihe tribute of this island the Domber of Ihe miles, and itsjourneys in days. »
« And lhal measnre Dynnwal measnred b\ a barley corn ; three lengths of a barley corn in the inch : three inchea in the palm breadth ; three palm breadtha in the foot; three féet io the pace; three paoe in the leap; three leaps in a land, the land, in modem welsh, is called a ridgej and a thoosand of the lande is a mile. And that ■Mesure we ^till use hère.
« And Ihen tliey maie the measnre of the légal erw by the barley corn : three leaghti of a barley oorn in an ineh ; three inches in the palm breadth; three palm breadths in the foot, four feet in the short yoke ; and eight in the field yoke; and twelve in the latéral yoke ; and sexleen in the long yoke; and a rod, equal in length to lhal long yoke, in the hand of the driver, with the middle spike of that long yoke in the olher hand of the driver, and as far as he can reach with that rod, stretching out his arm. are the two skirts of Ihe erw, that is to say, the breadth of a légal erw; and thirty of that is the lenght of the erw. »
o Four such erws are to be in every tyddyn.
« Four tyddyn in every gavael.
o Four gavael in every trew.
« Four trev in every maenol.
« And twelve maerwh and two trevs in every cymwd; the l\vo trevs are for the use of the king: one of them to be maer-trev land for him; and the olher to be the king's waste and summer pasture; and as much as we hâve said above is to be in the other cyimvd ; that is in number five score trwS} and that is the cantrev rightly : ten limes ten is to be in every hundred; and numération goes no further lhat ten. »
\ 3 this is the number of erws of the cantrev : four erws of tillage in every tyddyn; sixteen in every randir; sixty-four in every gavael; two hundred and fifty in the trev; one thousand and twenty four in every maenol; twelve thousand two hundred and eighty-eight in the twelve maenols ; in the two trevs whicb pertain to Ihe court there are to be five hundred and twelve erws : the whole of that, when summed up, is twelve thousand and eight hundred erws in Ihe cymwd ; and the same number in the other cymwd : that is, ihe number of erws in the cantrev is twenty live thousand and six hundred, neither more nor less.
14 of the twelve maenols, whichare to be in the cymwd, four are assigned to aillts to support dogs and horses, and for progress and dovraeth; and one for ranghellor-ship ; and one other for maer-ship; and the rest for free uchelwrs.
<5 and from Ihose eight the king is to hâve a gwestva every year; that is a pound yearly from each of them : three-score pence are charged on each trev of the four that are in a maenol , and so subdivided into quarters in succession, until each erw of the tyddyn be assessed : and lhat is called the tune pound ; and the silentiary is to collect il anniially : and a simdar payment in full from the other cymwd : and thus the cantrev is complète. (Leg. Wall. T. I. p. 186. 1*7, n« 3 et suiv.)
