[1391] D. B. iv. 497; Inq. Com. Cant. 97.
[1392] There can be little doubt that this is the right reading. See Round. Feudal England, 134.
[1393] Thus, D. B. ii. 39: ‘Tunc 4 carucae in dominio, post et modo 2 ... et 2 carucae possunt restaurari.’ To use our symbols, in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk we obtain statements about A and about C, but learn nothing about B, unless this is to be inferred from the increase or decrease that has taken place in C. We shall hereafter argue that, in spite of some appearances to the contrary, the carucates of East Anglia belong to the order A and not to the order B.
[1394] Thus, D. B. i. 231: ‘Rad. tenet de episcopo 4 car. terrae in Partenei. Terra est 4 car. In dominio sunt 2 et ... villani habent 2 car.’ Just before this we have the other common formula: ‘Rad. tenet ... 2 car. terrae in Toniscote. Duae car. possunt esse et ibi sunt.’
[1395] Thus, D. B. i. 231 b: ‘Ipsa Comitissa tenuit Dunitone. Ibi 22 car. et dimid. T. R. E. erant ibi 12 car. Modo in dominio sunt 3 et ... villani ... habent 12 car.’
[1396] To me it looks as if the variations were due to a clerk’s caprice. The Leicestershire survey fills 30 columns. Not until the top of col. 5 has the compiler, except as a rare exception, the requisite information. Then, after hesitating as to whether he shall adopt the ‘x car. possunt esse’ formula, he decides in favour of ‘Terra est x car.’ This we will call Formula I. It reigns throughout cols. 5–13, though broken on three or four occasions by what we will call Formula II, namely ‘T. R. E. erant ibi x car.’ At the top of col. 14 Formula II. takes possession and keeps it into col. 16. Then I. has a short turn. Then (col. 17) II. is back again. Then follow many alternations. At the top of col. 24, however, a simplified version of II. appears; the express reference to the T. R. E. vanishes, and we have merely ‘ibi fuerunt x car.’ In the course of col. 26 this is changed to ‘ibi x car. fuerunt.’ These two versions of II. prevail throughout the last six columns, though there is one short relapse to I. (col. 28).
[1397] The proof of this lies in the Inq. Com. Cant. and the Exon Domesday.
[1398] This appears on a collation of D. B. with the two records mentioned in our last note. See Round, Feudal England, 26.
[1399] D. B. i. 174: ‘In omnibus his maneriis non possunt esse plus carucae quam dictum est.’
[1400] When C varies from B, the statement about C will sometimes be introduced by a sed or a tamen which tells us that things are not what they might be expected to be. D. B. i. 77 b: ‘Terra est dimid. car. et tamen est ibi 1 car.’ D. B. i. 222: ‘Terra est dim. car. tamen 2 villani habent 1 car.’