fardel

A fourth part: a quarter of anything.

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

An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.

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.

A bundle or burden.

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.

[W]ho would fardels beare / To grunt and ſweat vnder a wearie life, / But that the dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, / And makes vs rather beare thoſe ills we haue, / Then flie to others that we know not of.

To make up in fardels; to bunch.

Here are foure vntruths fardelled vp together