[47] 'Et dimidiam' [hidam] is omitted in B, and (oddly enough) in Domesday itself.
[48] All three MSS. err here, as the reading should clearly be 'dim. virg.'
[49] b. 65. This distinction between the one and the nine, but not the size of the holding, is preserved in D.B.; while the I.E., though preserving it, gives the numbers as two and eight.
[50] This is the I.E. and D.B. version. For 'extra ecclesiam', the I.C.C. substitutes 'sine ejus [abbatis] licentia'.
[51] 'Soca remansit abbati' is the D.B. and I.E. version. It should be noted that the I.E. and Breve Abbatis give 'herchenger pistor' as the despoiler, while the I.C.C. and D.B. record him only as a 'miles' of Picot the sheriff. This is a case which certainly suggests special local knowledge in the compiler of the former documents, who also gives the sokeman's name—Siward.
[52] Thus 'In Branmmeswelle ... lxx. liberi homines unde abbas habuit sacam et socam et commendatio et omnes consuetudines ... In eadem villa iiii. liberi homines* unde abbas habuit sacam et socam et commendationem' (p. 161).
* 'Commend' abbati' (D.B., ii 387 b).
[53] Inq. Com. Cant., 192-5. see paper on it, infra.
[54] 'In soca et commendatione abbatis de eli' (D.B., ii. 441).
[55] 'Soca et commendatione tantum' (D.B.).