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Before quitting the subject, it may be as well to give the sub- 

 stance of the Domesday Survey's Account, although, since this 

 survey was not commenced till about a. d., 1081, it does not pro- 

 perly come under the title of this paper. 1 have, unfortunately, 

 been unable to refer personally to a copy of the Domesday Book 

 for Middlesex, so 1 take the following account from Lysons.* The 

 land was then taxed at 100 hides, or four less than we have seen 

 mentioned in the former deed I spoke of. It consisted of 70 caru- 

 cates, 30 hides belonging to the demesnes on which were four 

 ploughs, and a fifth might be employed. Among the freeholders 

 and villeins were 45 ploughs, and sixteen more might be used. 

 One hide belongs to the priest, and six to three knights, under 

 whom were seven tenants and thirteen villeins, who held each half 

 a hide, 28 who held a virgate, 48 a half virgate, and 13 four hides 

 together. There were also two cottars of thirteen acres and two 

 slaves, pasture for the town cattle, and pannage for 2000 hogs. 

 The whole was valued at £56. per annum, s£4. less than it was 

 worth in Edward the Confessor's time. At the death of that 

 Prince the Manor was in possession of Earl Lewin, and Geoffroy 

 de Mandeville held two hides in the Hundred of Elthorne, under 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury. This domain consisted of one 

 carucate, on which was one villein, who tenanted it and employed 

 one plough ; there were also four cottars, and pannage for 20 hogs, 

 and the estate was valued at twelve shillings a year, two shillings 

 yearly less than it had been rated at in the Confessor's time. So 

 that we see in this and the other instances above a slight deprecia- 

 tion in property after the Conquest. This estate had been occu- 

 pied before by Turpert, a servant of Earl Lewin's, and it would 

 not be separated from the Manor of Harrow. 



With the Domesday account I must close this paper, feeling 

 only too painfully the meagreness of the details which 1 have been 

 enabled to collect, and hoping that at some future time there may 

 be further and wider discoveries to enlighten us, and an abler pen 

 than mine to elucidate them. 



The President then announced that, as his term of office had 

 expired, he would be succeeded by Mr. Farrar. 



Mr. Farrar proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Hayward, and 

 the Officers of the Society. 



Mr. Hayward returned thanks for himself and colleagues. 



• Lysons' " Environs of London, 1792," Vol. IL, p. 561. 



