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

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

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

Hees forc't to trot with fardle at his backe, / From houſe to houſe, demaunding if they lacke / A poore yong man that's willing to take paine, / And mickle labour, though for little gaine.

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 Starkey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of long malow girdles, […].

“God in his mercy be thanked” said Katherine. “My dear Lord is then truly and honestly rid of his fardel.”

Here are foure vntruths fardelled vp together

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