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sold their lands, or after the battle of Hastings had forfeited their 
rank and held their land in villeinage incorporated in the manor. 
Others held still in paragio or libere, but they elected no longer 
to “ defendere se” and hold of the King in capite ; retaining their 
right to go to any lord with their land they enjoyed the rights and 
privileges of the manor which they joined. This again seems to 
indicate the coming feudal system, the share they had to take in 
the military service of the manor. 
(2) Integral portions of a manor sold and detached from it, 
and so bought and added to some other manor. Clearly, then, 
ablata terra should be registered by Domesday elsewhere as 
addita terra. A great difficulty is here. For example Chenolla 
(465b) containing 1%. 2v. From this manor has been taken 1 
hide of land which belonged to the manor T.R.E., and this was 
added to Witeham (382b). Was this hide a part of the 1%. 2v., 
or in addition to it? But Melecoma gelded only for rv. 2f, and 
yet 2 virgates which belonged to it T.R.E. had been taken from 
it, so these 2 virgates must have been additional, and the inference 
seems fair that it is additional in all cases, unless there is a notifi- 
cation to the contrary. Note carefully in the Analysis the marginal 
references in these cases, in order to trace the transaction. If the 
ablatum be from the demesne of a King’s manor it becomes 
geldable and adds to hidation in either the ablatum or addita- 
mentum, not in both; so likewise waste of a manor taken from it 
and no longer waste becomes geldable. 
Sometimes a member of a King’s manor is detached from it 
and held of the King in capite as a separate manor, and becomes 
geldable ; thus (90) Wedmore. An example of a very perplexing 
set of cases is (106b) Camel, iz tt are 15 hides, and the items of 
demesne and villa amount to 15, but it gelded T.R.E. for 83 hides. 
How did the Geld Roll enter this, for 15 hides, or for 85? We 
infer concealment, but not conclusively ; if, however, Domesday 
and the Geld Roll are to correspond, we are driven with uncertain 
data sometimes to think that the mistake was corrected in the 
