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Cassatus / Mansa / Manens
Lat. cassatus ('dweller with house') / mansa ('dwelling') / manens ('tenant')
The technical Latin diplomatic terms used interchangeably by Insular scribes to translate the Old English land unit *hide* (*hida*).
Charters typically describe estates as consisting of *decem cassatos* (ten hides) or *quinque mansas* (five hides) of land.
“…aliquantulam ruris partem, id est decem cassatos in loco qui dicitur…”
S 52 — Grant of 15 Hides by King Oshere
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