The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

Rot. Hund. II. p.	No. of virgates in each hide	Acres in a virgate	Acres in a hide
629	VI.	40	240
"	VI.	28	168
"	IV.	48	192
631	VI.	30	180
635	VI.	25	150
636	IV.	30	120
"	V.	25	125
637	VIII.	15	120
640	IV.	30	120
640	V.	25	125
645	IV.	30	120
646	V.	26	130
648	IV.	30	120
653	IV.	30	120
654	IV.	30	120
656	IV.	24	144
658	V.	25	125
660	V.	25	125
661	VI.	20	120

[ 32.] Hundred Rolls, Oxon.

II. 708.	Every virgate gives scutage	2s.	6d.	when the scutage is 40s.
	2 virgates give scutage	5s.
	1 virgate gives scutage	2s.	6d.
	4 virgates give scutage	10s.
	2 virgates give scutage	5s.
II. 709.	4 virgates give scutage	8s.
	5 virgates give scutage	11s.	5d.
II. 830.	1 hide gives scutage for a fourth part of a scutum.

From these instances it is evident that normally 4 virgates = 1 hide, and 4 hides make a knight's fee.

[ 33.]

Hundred Rolls, Beds.

• II. 321. Carucate of 120 acres.
• II. 324. Car"cate of  80 acres.
• II. 325. Car"cate of 100 acres.
• II. 326. Car"cate of 120 acres.
• II. 328. Carucate of 200 acres.
• II. 329. Car"cate of  80 acres.
• II. 332. Car"cate of 100 acres.

[ 34.] Hundred Rolls, Bedfordshire.—'Et sunt illi villani ita servi quod non possunt maritare filias nisi ad voluntatem domini' (II. 329).

'Nec pullos sibi pullatos mas- (II. 328).

Buckinghamshire.—'Sunt ad voluntatem domini, et ad alia facienda quæ ad servilem conditionem pertinent' (II. 335–6). And so on.