A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



carucate in size, and about the same proportion range from i to 5 caru- 

 cates. Only 70 of the 659 manors are 5 carucates or more in area. The 

 largest is an estate of 25 carucates 20 acres at Hundon, in Risbridge Hundred, 

 held under King Edward by a certain Wisgar, afterwards forming part of the 

 fief of Richard Fitz Gilbert. The smallest is a plot of 1 2 acres at Sutton in 

 Wilford Hundred," held, with a half freeman, half a bordar, half a plough- 

 team, and an acre of meadow, by Robert Malet, under the commendation of 

 ' Saint Etheldreda.' 



As is seen by tabulating the results of a rough classification, manors of 

 less than a carucate in extent are not found at all in the hundreds of Ris- 

 bridge, Cosford, Thingoe, Thedwastre, Stow, Lackford, and Ipswich. They 

 are rare in Babergh, Blackbourn, Bradmere, and Bishop's Hundreds, numerous 

 in Claydon, Plomesgate, Hartismere, and Wangford Hundreds, and very 



" Dom. Bk. 318, 387, entered under both R. Malet and St. Etheldreda. Inq. El. (Rec. Com.), 526*^. 

 But, a: Professor VinogradofF has reminded us, the acres in these cases are geld-acres, and probably correspond 

 to larger areas ; Engl. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. 337. 



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