strawyard and dwelling. For we cannot doubt that stall-feeding was the rule with regard to horned cattle in general. In the same dialogue which has been already cited, the ploughman is made to say: “I must fill the oxen’s cribs with hay, and give them water, and bear out their dung[181].” Moreover there must be room found for stacks of hay and wood, for barns and outhouses, and sleeping-rooms both for the serfs and the members of the family; nor are houses of more than one story very likely to have been built[182]. With this introduction I proceed to another grant of Oswald[183]. In the year 996, he gave three hides of land to Eádríc: the property however lay in different places: “æt Eánulfestúne óðerhealf híd, ⁊ æt úferan Strætforda, on ðǽre gesyndredan híde, ðone óðerne æcer, ⁊ æt Fachanleáge ðone þriddan æcer feldlandes ... ⁊ on eásthealfe Afene eahta æceras mǽdwa, ⁊ forne gean Biccenclife. xii. æceras mǽdwa, ⁊ þreo æcras benorðan Afene tó myllnstealle;” i. e. “at Eanulfestun a hide and a half; at upper Stratford the second acre (i. e. half a hide); at Fachanleah the third acre (i. e. a third of a hide); on the east of the river Avon, eight acres of meadow, and onwards towards Biccancliff, twelve acres; and to the northward of the Avon, the three acres for a millstall.” Our data here are 1½ hide + ½ hide + ⅓ hide, or 2⅓ hides; but, if the calculations which precede are correct, 8 + 12 acres or 20 acres = ⅔ hide, and thus make up three hides of thirty acres each: three acres devoted to mill-buildings are not reckoned into the sum, and it is therefore possible that a similar course was pursued with regard to the land occupied, not by the millstall but by the homestall[184]. ----- Footnote 179: Cod. Dipl. No. 538. Footnote 180: “In the greater part (of Germany), especially in all the populous parts of Southern Germany, the land is tilled by its owners, scarcely any small holdings being farmed out. The possessions of the peasant owners and cultivators are usually very diminutive, and those of the richer lords of the soil, especially in the North, immensely extensive. Lastly, the peasant scarcely anywhere lives upon his land, but in the adjacent village, whatever may be its distance from his fields.” Banfield, Agric. on the Rhine, p. 10. Footnote 181: Leo, Sprachproben, p. 7. Thorpe, Analect. p. 8. Footnote 182: In Hungary, where land is abundant, houses, even those of considerable proprietors, are rarely of more than one story. Footnote 183: Cod. Dipl. No. 529. Footnote 184: