NOTE 



The following translation agrees in the main with 

 that of Mr. Stuart Moore, my predecessor in this 

 field ; but I have been compelled in certain cases, as 

 for instance on p. 327,. to differ from him in identi- 

 fying places, a matter of the utmost importance. For 

 the original identification of the places named in 

 Domesday one is, of course, indebted to the labours 

 of Bridges and of Baker. The reader should bear 

 in mind throughout that the date of the Domesday 

 Survey is 1086 ; that King Edward, to whose time 

 it refers, died January 5, 1066; that the 'hide' was 

 the unit of assessment on which the (Dane)geld was 

 paid, and that the ' virgate ' was its quarter. Par- 

 allel with the ' hide ' was the ' carucate ' of the 

 region to the north of Northamptonshire, the 'borate' 

 representing an eighth of it. The essential portion 

 of the plough ('caruca') was its team of oxen, 

 eight in number. The ' demesne ' was the lord's 

 portion of the manor, the peasantry holding the rest of 

 it under him. ' Farm ' or ' ferm,' x.\\s. firma of Domes- 

 day, was virtually the rent for which the ' farmer ' 

 (^firmarms) of a manor or group of manors was liable. 

 The woodland measures are discussed in the introduction, 

 and the modern names of the Hundreds will be found 

 on pp. 296-298 above. 



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