Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[1551] D. B. i. 49 b (Hants).

[1552] D. B. i. 364 (Lincoln).

[1553] See above, [p. 394].

[1554] This part of the evidence is set out in Mr Round’s Feudal England, 37–44. I have gone through all the calculations. His results are hardly different from those which I have obtained and therefore I dwell no longer on this part of the case, for it has been well stated.

[1555] D. B. i. 192; iv. 107. The Inquisitio Eliensis puts the number of cottiers at 18, while Domesday gives 28. See Hamilton’s edition, p. 119.

[1556] Downham, Witchford, Sutton, ‘Helle,’ Wilburton, Stretham, Stuntney, Doddington.

[1557] Wichford, D. B. i. 192; iv. 507; Hamilton, 119.

[1558] Witcham, Whittlesey, Lindon, Wentworth, Chatteris, Wisbeach, Littleport.

[1559] Wisbeach, 3¹⁄₂ H. + 1 V. + 150 A. + 2¹⁄₂¹⁄₂ H. = 10 H.

[1560] In giving the sum of the particulars I add hides to hides, virgates to virgates, acres to acres, but I make no assumption as to the number of acres or virgates in the hide.