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

by Frederic William Maitland

[1590] D. B. i. 95 b, Ecewiche; iv. 333.

[1591] D. B. ii. 389 (Cratingas). In Northamptonshire also there is talk of virgates; e.g. D. B. 225 b, 226 b: 3V. - 1 B.; 2 V. + 1 B.

[1592] D. B. ii. 377 b.

[1593] D. B. i. 276 b, 278.

[1594] If I hold two and a half acres in one place and three roods in a neighbouring place and you ask me how much land I have, I may tell you that I have two and a half acres and three roods. If you ask me how much money I have in my purse, I may tell you that I have half-a-crown and three shillings. But returns to governmental inquiries would not be habitually made in this way.

[1595] D. B. i. 13: ‘pro uno solin se defendit; tria iuga sunt infra divisionem Hugonis et quartum iugum est extra.’

[1596] D. B. i. 2.

[1597] Elton, Tenures of Kent, 133–4.

[1598] D. B. i. 12 b.

[1599] D. B. i. 9 b.