The Jersey Vergée or rood is 40 square perches = 0·44 acre.
2. _Guernsey._—The linear measures are based on the English standards. They were, in 1611:
Cloth yard = 38-1/2 inches (= half a toise). Sail Cloth yard = 44 „ English ell = 45-1/2 „ English yard = 36 (Verge d’Angleterre).
The perch or verge is 21 feet; probably an approximate adaptation of the common perch of 20 French feet = 21·3 English feet. It is the same as the Irish and Lancashire rod.
The verge or rood is 40 square perches = 0·4 acre.
The acre-unit is not used now in either island.
The bouvée (bovate) of 20 vergées, and caruée (carucate) of 12 bouvées remain only in manorial records.
1. _Jersey._—The standard ordered in 1754, and confirmed in 1771, is the Cabot, defined as containing 10 Pots.
The Pot contains 123·56 cubic inches = 0·445 Imperial gallon. It does not correspond directly to the Paris pot = 111 cubic inches or 0·41 gallon, nor apparently to the various Normandy pots, of which that of Caen, about Paris standard, is the type. It is simply one-tenth of the Cabot.
The Cabot, a common name in Normandy for a corn-measure, is for wheat and for wine, cider, &c. A larger cabot, for barley and other light grain, is one-third larger, containing 13-1/3 pots; another, for coal, contains 14 pots. Lime and charcoal are measured by the cask of 120 Pots, i.e. 6 bushels of 20 pots. For a double cabot is usually called a bushel.
The Cabot = 1235·6 cubic inches, and containing 4·456 gallons, coincides nearly with one-eighth of the Paris Setier = 4·29 bushels, and also with the Panau or Eimino, 1/8 of the Marseilles Cargo of 4·34 bushels.
For wine, cider, &c., it is divided into gallons (double pots, 1/5 cabot), pots, quarts and pints.
A double cabot is the bushel. The duodecimal division of the Paris Setier and the division (in the corresponding wheat-water series) of the Quartant into 9 veltes, prevent the relations of the Jersey measures with those of Paris being clearly seen. But the relations with the Marseilles standards, corn and wine, from which the Paris standards were taken, are evident. It will be seen in the chapter on the Old Measures of France that the Paris Setier was derived, through the Marseilles Cargo, from the Egyptian Rebekeh, which is the cubed cubit of Al-Mamūn.