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can “terra” possibly mean but the whole measurable land of the 
Manor? What can “terra addita” or “terra ablata” mean but 
the whole measurable land thus added or taken away ? 
Taking this meaning of /erva for granted, it seems to follow 
from internal evidence that the waste is not included. Otherwise 
whatever area may be assigned to “terra quam potest arare una 
carruca,” or “terra ad unam carrucam,” or its Saxon equivalent 
sulung, it becomes impossible to reconcile discrepancies. This is 
in a measure confirmed by the entry 491. ‘‘ 2v. belonged to the 
King’s farm of Curi, it was waste.” Now this is not entered as an 
“ablata terra” from Churi (f. 89), because it was waste, but so 
soon as it ceased to be waste and was added to Capilanda, it 
became “terra” and geldable. 
Mr. Bates, indeed (p. 92, Vol. 45, ‘“‘Somt. Assn.”), writes, 
“this I venture to think was only the result of trying to make 
every hide contain so many acres of land, a belief from which 
Eyton could never shake himself free ; 
” 
so again at p. 104. But 
Eyton knew too much of his subject to doubt for an instant that 
“terra ad unam carrucam” represented a fixed area, however 
difficult it may be to decide what that fixed area is. Imagine 
the Commissioners recording ¢his manor contains terra ad unam 
carrucam, this it must be noted is not a definite quantity, and we see 
the reductio ad absurdum. 
“Hidata, bovata, carrucata, virgata, villata, are simply participles 
of—hidare, bovare, carrucare, virgare, villare ; from the nouns— 
hida, bos, carruca, virga, villa ; z.e., terra reduced to hides, boves, 
ploughs, fourthings, villas. 
A peculiar expression occurring seldom should be noted, of 
which take Derstona (441) as an instance—Richard has in demesne 
tA. 14v., and the villani the rest of the land i.e, th. 14v. In these 
cases, instead of taking the remaining hidation, the land itself is 
noted. 
The investigations of Professor Maitland and others scarcely 
leave it longer doubtful that Eyton is right in accepting 120 statute 
