Lennox: General comments   I chose Lennox for a close study of land-assessment because of its unique system of arachors. I had hoped that, if I was able to evaluate these in relation to the davachs, pennylands and merklands elsewhere,…

The Valuation of Lennox – by parish   The table below carries several caveats: The two right-hand columns are speculative. Most parishes have changed composition over the centuries and Row is new. Luss and Arrochar may behave differently to the…

Arachors   No document tells us the exact relationship between arachors and merklands. The best we can hope for is to establish that since X was a quarterland; and since later documents prove that X was worth £5 old extent;…

Davachs in Lennox?   We know of arachors and carucates in Lennox. The documents also make clear than an arachor, a carucate and a ploughland were, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, equivalent. (By the seventeenth century a ploughland had…

The 14 ‘Davachtis’ in Lennox This table allows us to add other evidence showing that the 14 davachtis of 1223 were in fact the same as arachors, carucates or £20 lands.   13 December 1223 Modern Name Parish Extent Date…

Table of £5 lands (£5) = derived or calculated sum; italicised = more doubtful; Ratio = carucates to merklands, so 1:30 means 1 carucate to 30m (£20). CCEW= Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown. GS, Strathendrick = Guthrie Smith,…

Table of £10 lands GS, Strathblane = Guthrie Smith, Strathblane.   This table lists the £10 lands in Lennox. I think they all represent half-arachor or half-carucate (or half-davach?) units. However the only reason I have not included them with…

Lennox: General Resources   There are a number of general resources for the Lennox area which I have listed here rather than repeat them many times under individual parishes.     Nimmo, Stirlingshire, 1777 (particularly the map based on Edgar’s…

Forests in Lennox In 1272 Alexander III (RRS IV Pt 1 No 81 pp 118-119 – NB notes below text on sources) gave Malcolm, earl of Lennox, all the lands: ab Est’ Douglas usque ad Sehynne et ab Sehynne usque…