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I should like to thank everyone for their help and advice in answer to my
query. I have enjoyed perusing the various recorded usages provided so
generously, and I have thus advanced my understanding what was being referred to. I
have also recovered now from the shock of discovering how much it would cost
to purchase J.F. Niermeyer et al.: /Mediae latinitatis lexicon minor/ or
/Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin/. I tried to access Du Cange and my system
crashed (it gets like that with .pdf files occasionally) and I won't try
again just yet in case I lose this letter of thanks, again... I may just have
to start saving.
The 'mansa' in the Charter seems to have been extensive ("id est unam mansam
in septem loca divisam...cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus campis pratis
pascuis rivulis piscariis") -- and indeed much of it is still identifiable
(including I very much suspect where I now live, though that is not why I am
worrying at this text at the moment). One translation I have seen calls it a
'homestead' -- trying to avoid 'manor' (which if the Charter is genuine would be
anachronistic, I think -- for 930 in Cornwall?) -- but running into other
problems as a result. There must have been many dwellings on these lands, which
(the lands) were not all contiguous, and so 'homestead' does not seem right
either, nor proto-village, although there is some of that about it (only one
small part of it ever became a village).
End of ramble, and thank you again.
Susan
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