fardel

nyytti A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
(c.) W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:

I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a nook Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a yardland Yard-land.

Who would fardels bear

to grunt and sweat under a weary life(..)

It doth also appear by the abbreviate of the accounts sent home out of the Indies, that there remained in the hands of the agent, master Starlcey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of of long malow girdles,(..).

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