[541] D. B. ii. 242 b.
[542] D. B. ii. 258.
[543] D. B. ii. 258.
[544] D. B. ii. 447.
[545] D. B. i. 45 b.
[546] Two objections to our theory may be met by a note. (1) Some manors are free of geld, and therefore to make our definition correct we ought to say that a manor is a tenement which either pays its geld at a single place or which would do so were it not freed from the tax by some special privilege. A manerium does not cease to be a manerium by being freed from geld. (2) In later days we may well find a manor holden of another manor, so that a plot of land may be within two manors. If this usage of the term can be traced back into Domesday Book as a common phenomenon, then our doctrine is in great jeopardy. But we have noticed no passage which clearly and unambiguously says that a tract of land was at one and the same time both a manerium and also a part of another manerium. To this we must add that of the distribution of maneria T. R. E. we only obtain casual and very imperfect tidings. If T. R. W. a free man has been ‘added to’ a manerium, the commissioners have no deep interest in the inquiry whether T. R. E. his tenement was itself an independent manerium. A great simplification has been effected and the number of maneria has been largely reduced.
[547] D. B. ii. 174: ‘Hec villa fuit in duobus maneriis T. R. E.’ Ibid. i. 164: ‘De his 2 villis fecit Comes W. unum manerium.’
[548] Inquisitio, 77–9.
[549] This result comes out correctly if 1 H=4V=120A. For the state of this vill T. R. W. see Round, Feudal England, 40.
[550] His plot at Orwell is said to belong to Harlton. Then at Harlton we find an Achil with sokemen under him, and though in D. B. he is described as a king’s thegn, this is not incompatible with his being the man of Harold for some of his lands. At Barrington Achillus Danaus homo Haroldi has a holding of 40 acres.