Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

[⁶⁶] Domesday Studies, p. 556.

[⁶⁷] Inq. El., pp. 140, 141.

[⁶⁸] Domesday Studies, p. 209.

[⁶⁹] Domesday Studies, p. 187.

[⁷⁰] It is essential to bear in mind that the Domesday scribes had nothing to guide them but the bare words of the return, so that if they thus equated these expressions, they can only have done so because the rule was of universal application.

[⁷¹] Archæological Review, vol. i, p. 286.

[⁷²] Compare also the Exon. Domesday, where 'Stoches', which is entered 'pro. ii. virgatis et dim.' appears in D.B. as 'dim. hida et dim. virga'.

[⁷³] See below, and ante, [p. 17], note.

[⁷⁴] Key to Domesday, p. 14.

[⁷⁵] It is to this evidence that I made allusion in Domesday Studies (p. 225). Similar evidence as to the Domesday carucate is found in the Inq. El. (Ed. Hamilton, pp. 156, 178) where 'lx. acre' equate 'dim. c[arucata]'.