Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[471] Eyton, Somerset, ii. 34.

[472] D. B. i. 101 b; iv. 107.

[473] D. B. i. 41.

[474] D. B. i. 230.

[475] D. B. i. 338–9.

[476] D. B. i. 220, Tingdene.

[477] D. B. ii. 15 b, 17 b.

[478] D. B. ii. 385 b.

[479] The form bereuita is exceedingly common, but must, we think, be due to a mistake; c has been read as t.

[480] D. B. i. 38 b, Edlinges. Some of the ‘wicks’ seem to have been dairy farms. D. B. i. 58 b: ‘et wika de 10 pensis caseorum.’ On the Glastonbury estates we find persons called wikarii, each of whom has a wika. Glastonbury Rentalia, 39: ‘Thomas de Wika tenet 5 acras et 50 oves matrices et 12 vaccas ... Philippus de Wika tenet unum ferlingum et 50 oves matrices et 12 vaccas.’ Ibid. 44: ‘A. B. tenet unum ferlingum et 50 oves matrices et 12 vaccas pro 1 sol. pro wika.’ Ibid. 48: ‘Ricardus de Wika tenet 5 acras et 50 oves matrices et 12 vaccas. Alanus de Wika eodem modo.’ Ibid. p. 51