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> There's also an account of the founding of Thebes in Lydgate's "Siege
> of Thebes" (also his continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) in
> which the founder measures the land with an ox hide.
A seemingly related practice, known from several European cities, including
Chartres, was the annual donation by a city of a candle the length of the circuit of its
walls. These would be wound up into a skein, and in some instances, people would
be assigned to make sure they kept burning through the year.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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