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 13, 2025.

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¶ Of a pece of lande in. vii. viii. ix. or. x. sydes equally square.

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AND also when a pece of land is in vii. viii. ix. or x. sydes equallye square lyke to any of these present fy∣gures. Thē in lyke maner as ye dyd.

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in these two fygures laste before, ye shal take ye half nōbre of perches of al the whole sydes for the length, & the nombre of perches of the dystaunce

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betwene the midle point with in the same figures, and the midle place be.

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twene two angles of one side for the breadth, as ye haue sene expressed in the two fyrste figures of fiue, and. vi.
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square, & as it doth appeare plainely by examples of the same. iiii. present fygures.

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