moncellus

moncellus [OF moncel < monticellus] , little hill, heap (of material); b (as unit of measure of harvested crop); c (as unit of measure of mud or plaster). item quod frequenter post pluvias coadunentur fima curie per muncellos, ut per hoc emundetur curia Cart. Glouc. III 220.  b 1234 si falcat stipulam ‥ debet falcare x muncellos, quodlibet muncellum de x garbis Cust. Glast. 135; c1310 fenum domini donec fiat in muncelos Reg. S. Aug. 201; ad colligendum fenum et faciendum muncellos Ib.; 1399 concessimus ‥ Guillelmo domino de Courcy quod ipse duo millia musshellarum bladi in regnum nostrum Anglie sive terram nostram Hibernie ‥ adducere possit Pat 352 m. 39.  c c1230 debet ‥ cariare fimos, sc. quater xx muncellos sine cibo (Cust. Lessingham) Doc. Bec 106; 1234 si debet marliare, ducet v muncellos per diem Cust. Glast. 136; 1271 in cccxliiij muncellis fimi dispergendis, v d. Pipe Wint. B 1/35 r. 2d.; 1274 magistro W. Plastrario pro ij muncellis plastri viij s. iiij d. KR Ac 467/6/2 m. 2; 1287 in mmc muncellis fimorum dispergendis Ib. B 1/46 r. 7; 1289 in xxx ~is plastr’ Par’ emptis KR Ac 467/19 m. 2; 1294 Adinecto plastr[ario] pro j ~o plastr’ Par’, vj s. ij d. Ib. 468/6 r. 64; 1316 in fimo cariando extra curiam in campos et spargendo, videlicet vjcxl montellis fimi iiijxxv operibus MinAc 1132/16 B. 8d.; 1317 precium centum ~orum de plastro Paris’ Cl 147 m. 20; 1325 pro j mouncello plastri pro quadam trassura ad mold’ pro tabernaculis formand’, vj s. KR Ac 469/8 m. 10; 1355 pro xvj mouncell’ plastri Paris’ empt’ pro diversis edificiis ‥. item pro factura earundem moncell’ Ib. 471/6 m. 24; 13‥ mussellus de plastre debet continere in altitudine iiij pedes et dim. et in latitudine, in parte inferiori, iij pedes et in latitudine superiori ij pedes Eng. Weights 32.