[1341] It will be convenient for us to adopt this term a ‘teamland’ as an equivalent for the Terra ad unam carucam of our record, so that ‘b teamlands’ shall translate Terra ad b carucas. The reader is asked to accept this note as an ‘interpretation clause.’
[1342] D. B. i. 353.
[1343] D. B. i. 308, Trectone.
[1344] D. B. i. 275 b, Burnulfestune.
[1345] D. B. i 337 b.
[1346] See [pp. 400–403].
[1347] We shall not complain of our tools; but Domesday Book is certainly not impeccable. As to its omissions see Eyton, Notes on Domesday (1880); also Round, Feudal England, 43.
[1348] Agricultural Returns, 1895 (Board of Agriculture) p. 34. Tidal water is excluded.
[1349] The received figures are: Middlesex, 149,046, London, 75,442. From older sources we give Middlesex, 180,480: Population Abstract, 1833, vol. i. p. 376.
[1350] For some good remarks on these matters see Eyton, Notes on Domesday. Lincoln, Nottingham and Northampton would require correction because of the treatment that Rutland has received. The boundary of Shropshire has undergone changes. The inclusion of stretches of Welsh ground increases the population without adding to the hidage of some western counties.