A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



and serf has been counted as a householder. Freemen, sokemen, and priests 

 have been reckoned as free ; villeins, bordars and serfs as unfree. 



TABLE I— POPULATION AND AREA 



Hundred 



Northern Hundreds 



Lackford 



Blackbour.i 



Bradmere 



Hartismer.- 



Bishop's 



Wangford 



Lothing 



Lothingland (half-hundred) . 



Central Hundreds 



Thingoe 



Thedwastre 



Stow 



Bosmere 



Claydon 



Loes 



Carlford 



Ipswich " (half-hundred) . . 

 Parham (half-hundred) . . 

 Plomsgate [or Plomesgate]. . 

 Blything 



Southern Hundreds 



Risbridge 



Babenberg [or Babergh] (dou- 

 ble hundred) 

 Samford (hundred and a half) 

 Cosford (half-hundred) . . 



Colneis 



Wilford 



Approximate 



Average of 



Households per 



Carucate 



to 5 



9 



9 

 1 1 



7 

 12 



•3 



6 



7 



9 to 10 



8 



II 



1 1 



1 1 



8 to 9 



•7 

 1 1 

 9 to 10 

 loj 



to 6 

 to 7 



to 6 

 6i 

 <7 

 to 8 



Rough as these statistics are, they bring out clearly the strong element of 

 freedom in the village population of Suffolk at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey. This element is most apparent, if Ipswich Half-hundred be omitted, 

 in the northern hundreds of Blackbourn, Bradmere, Hartismere, and Lothing ; 

 in the central hundreds of Thedwastre, Bosmere, Claydon, Loes and Carlford, 

 Parham and Plomesgate; and in the southern hundreds of Colneis and Wilford. 

 The unfree element is strikingly predominant in the hundreds of Blything, 

 Risbridge, and Babergh, all ' manorialized ' districts. In Babergh double 

 hundred, where the proportion of free to unfree householders is about one 

 to five, there are some thirty-eight manors to as many vills. In Colneis 

 Hundred there are only nine small manors in thirty-one vills, and the propor- 

 tion of free to unfree householders is about two to one. 



In East Anglia, and in East Anglia alone, at the time of the Domesday 

 Inquest, the hundreds were divided, for fiscal purposes, into smaller units 

 called /eets. Two passages in the Norfolk Domesday refer to these divisions," 



" Two hundred and sixty-three burgesses counted among the freemen. 



" Ipswich ' burgus ' and ' villa ' and Stoke. '" Three hundred and sixteen burgesses in Dunwich. 



^' Dom. Bk. 119^. ' Hundredum de Grenehou de xiv. letis,' 2 1 23; ' Hundredum et dimidium de 

 ClakeWa de x leitis.' r.C.H. Nor/, ii, 5-6. 



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