Creating Places of Power by Nigel Pennick

Creating Places of Power by Nigel Pennick

Author:Nigel Pennick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SPIRITUALITY/OCCULT
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2022-09-22T00:00:00+00:00


One Rood consists of 9,000 square Saxon Feet. One Acre consists of 4 Roods.

One Ferlingate consists of 10 Acres.

One Townyard (Virgate) consists of 4 Ferlingata (40 acres, 160 Roods).

One Hide consists of 4 Townyards (Virgata) (160 Acres, 640 Roods).

ALTERATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS OF NATURAL MEASURE

When the Normans conquered England in 1066, the old Saxon and Celtic measures then in use were not altered, for King William I wished to appear to be the lawful successor of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. Thus, William the Conqueror confirmed the new measure in his new laws: “Concerning measures and weights, they shall have throughout the whole kingdom measures most trustworthy and duly certified, and weights most trustworthy and duly certified, just exactly as the good predecessors have appointed.” Successive kings of England likewise certified and ratified the existing traditional measures.

In addition to the Feet of natural measure, there were a number of other Feet used in Britain for different purposes. The Feet used in medieval Britain were the Natural Foot (25.1 cm in modern measurement); the Roman Foot (29.6 cm); the Greek Common Foot (31.7 cm); and the Saxon Foot (33.5 cm). The Natural Foot was used in land measure, mainly in Wales; the Greek and Roman Feet were used by architects and builders, while the Saxon Foot was applied to land measure, buildings, and handicrafts.

But in 1305, King Edward I, a victorious and powerful monarch who re-founded the legal system, also reformed the weights and measures of his realms, beginning the centralizing tendency toward standardization that has continued until the present day. Before reforming measure, Edward had founded many new towns according to geomantic principles located and designed by the Locators James St. George and Henry le Waleys, among others. Edward assumed the title “Rex et Bastidor” (King and founder of fortified towns), and, in his Statute for Measuring Land, reorganized measurement, based on a standard iron yard made for the express purpose.

The 1305 Statute stated:



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