[1311] K. 1222 (vi. 12); T. 508: ‘And ic Æðelgar an an hide lond ðes ðe Æulf hauede be hundtuelti acren, ateo so he wille.’ Kemble, Saxons, 117.
[1312] See above, [p. 386, note 1304].
[1313] There can be little need of examples. Glastonbury Rentalia, 152: ‘S. tenet unam virgatam terrae et dimidiam, quae computantur pro una virgata.’ Ibid. p. 160: ‘H. tenet unam virgatam et 5 acras, quae omnia computantur pro una virgata.’ Worcester Register, 62: A virgate consists of 13 acres in one field and 121⁄2 in the other; the next virgate of 16 acres in one field and 12 in the other. In other cases the numbers are 16 and 14; 145⁄8 and 11; 13 and 121⁄2; 14 and 11; 143⁄4 and 111⁄4. Yet every virgate is a virgate.
[1314] At the date of Domesday we are a long way from the first danegeld and a very long way from any settlement of Cambridgeshire; still if we analyze a symmetrical hundred, such as Armingford, we shall find that the average ten-hide vill is just about twice as rich as the average five-hide vill in men, in teams and in annual valet, though there will be some wide aberrations from this norm.
[1315] See above, [p. 336, note 1160].
[1317] This is proved by ‘The Burghal Hidage’ of which we spoke above, p. 187, and shall speak again hereafter.
[1318] See the Gerefa published by Dr Liebermann in Anglia, ix. 251. Andrews, Old English Manor, 246.
[1319] The manner in which the old hides have really fallen to pieces but are preserving a notional existence is well illustrated by Domesday of St. Paul’s, 41–47. In one case a hide forms nine tenements containing respectively 30, 30, 15, 15, 5, 5, 71⁄2, 5, 71⁄2 acres. See Vinogradoff, Villainage, 249.
[1320] Vinogradoff, Villainage, 242; Maitland, History of an English Manor, Eng. Hist. Rev. ix. 418.