The boke of measurying of lande as well of woodland as plowland, & pasture in the feelde: & to compt the true nombre of acres of the same. Newly corrected, & compiled by Sir Richarde de Benese.

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The boke of measurying of lande as well of woodland as plowland, & pasture in the feelde: & to compt the true nombre of acres of the same. Newly corrected, & compiled by Sir Richarde de Benese.
Author
Benese, Richard, d. 1546.
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Impynted [sic] at London :: By Thomas Coldwell,
[ca. 1565]
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Surveying -- Early works to 1800.
Carpentry -- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
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"The boke of measurying of lande as well of woodland as plowland, & pasture in the feelde: & to compt the true nombre of acres of the same. Newly corrected, & compiled by Sir Richarde de Benese." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08438.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.

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¶ Of a pece of lande in. iiii. sydes partly square.

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AND when

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a pece of lande is partlye square with two playne āgles on the lyft side, and one flat & one other sharpe angle, on ye right syde, lyke to this present fygure, the whiche is of lyke bredth betwene the flat angle a¦boue and the contrary side of ye same fygure beneth, as is the bredth be∣twene the two playne angles on the lyft syde of the same fygure. Then in the exāple of this figure, ye shall take the nombre of perches, yt be betwene the two playne angles on the lyfte syde for the breadth, the which is. x. and afterward ye shal lay the vpper and the nether sydes togyther, the which make. xxx. perches in ye whole nombre. Of the whych take the half nombre of perches the whiche is. xv. for the lengthe, and then multiply.

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xv. perches, by the nombre of. x. and that nombre so multiplyed maketh. iii. rodes. vi. dayeworkes and two perches.

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