[1321] See Pell, in Domesday Studies, i. 357. Almost at one and the same moment, but in two different ‘extents,’ the same tenements are being described as containing 15 and as containing 18 acres. Domesday of St. Paul’s, 69: ‘In this manor the hide contains 120 acres; the old inquest said that it used not to contain more than 80; but afterwards the lands were sought out and measured (exquisitae sunt terrae et mensuratae).’
[1322] Cart. Rams. iii. 208. See also the table given by Seebohm, op. cit. 37.
[1323] A ‘double hide’ of 240 acres plays a part in Mr Seebohm’s speculations. His instances of it hardly bear examination. On p. 37 he produces from Rot. Hund. ii. 629 the equation 1 H.=6 V. of 40 A. apiece. This apparently refers to the Ramsey manor of Brington; but Cart. Rams. ii. 43 gives 1 H.=4 V. of 40 A., while Cart. Rams. iii. 209 gives 1 H.=4 V. of 34 A. Then Mr Seebohm, p. 51, cites from ‘the documents of Battle Abbey given by Dugdale’ the equation 1 H.=8 V.; but this seems to refer to the statement now printed in the Battle Cartulary (Camd. Soc.) p. xiii., where 1 H.=4 V. As to the supposed solanda of two hides, see Round, Feudal England, 103.
[1324] The virgates on the Gloucestershire manors of Gloucester Abbey contain the following numbers of acres: 36, 40, 36, 38, 48, 48, 48, 48, 50, 48, 40, 64, 64, 64, 48, 50, 60, 48, 48, 64, 18 (?), 44, 80, 48, 48, 72. See Gloucester Cartulary, vol. iii. Of the taxation and wealth of the various counties we shall speak hereafter.
[1325] Napier and Stevenson, Crawford Charters, p. 47: The O. E. sulh (plough) is ‘cognate with Lat. sulcus.’
[1326] Both terms were in use in Normandy and some other parts of France: Delisle, Études, 538; also Ducange. In a would-be English charter of the days before the Conquest these words would be ground for suspicion. In K. 283 and 455 Kemble has printed (in documents which he stigmatizes) caractorum. But apparently (see B. ii. 104, iii. 94) what stands in the cartulary is carattorum, and this seems a mistake for the common casatorum. To mistake O. E. s for r is easy.
[1327] See Stevenson, E. H. R. v. 143.
[1328] In D. B. the iugum appears as a portion of a solin; probably as a quarter of the solin. D. B. i. 13: ‘pro uno solin se defendit. Tria iuga sunt infra divisionem Hugonis et quartum iugum est extra.’ The iugum has already appeared in a few Kentish land-books. In K. 199 (i. 249), B. i. 476, we find an ioclet which seems to be half a manse (mansiuncula). In K. 407 (iii. 262), B. ii. 572, we find ‘an iuclæte et insuper 10 segetes (acres).’
[1329] D. B. ii. 389: ‘In Cratingas 24 liberi homines 1 carr. terrae et 1 virg.’
[1330] Yorkshire Inquisitions (Yorks. Archæeol. Soc.) passim. On p. 77 in an account of Catterick we read of ‘a capital messuage worth 5s.; 32 bovates of arable land in demesne (each bovate of 6 acres at 8s.) £12. 16s.; 311⁄2 bovates held by bondmen (each bovate of 10 acres at 13s. 4d.) £21; ... 2 bovates which contain 24 acres and 32 acres called Inland worth 74s. 8d.’