¶ Of another pece of lande in the. iiii. sydes parte∣ly square.
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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.
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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.
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- 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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a pece of lande is in. iiii sydes partelye square, wt one flat angle & on sharpe angle on the right side, & one sharpe angle, & on flat angle one the lyfte syde, lyke to this present fygure
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hauynge lyke distaūce at both endes from the flat angles, the lynes on ye contrarye sydes, than ye shall take the nōbre of perches betwene eyther of the flat angles, and ye lyne on the contrarye syde for the breadthe, as it appeareth by the two lynes in it.
Afterwarde ye shall laye both ye hier and the lower sydes togyther in one nombre of perches. And then deuide out halfe the nōbre of perches of that two sydes, as for the length in thys examples. The dystaunce frō eyther of the flat angles, to the lyne on the contrarye syde is. x. perches the whi∣che is the shorter syde. Therfore take. x. perches for the breadth.
Then laye the vpper side, the which is. xx. perches, and the nether side ye which is also. xx. perches in one sume both togyther. And these both sydes make in the whole sume. xl. perches. Of the which sume, take the one hal¦fe,
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the whiche is. xx. perches for the length &. x. for the bredth. Then mul¦typly. xx. by. x. & it maketh in ye whole sume one acre, and one roode.