DOMESDAY SURVEY 



numerous in the hundreds of Samford, Bosmere, and Blything. Large 

 manors of 5 carucates and more in area are also numerous in Babergh and 

 Bishop's Hundreds, while in Risbridge Hundred they occur frequently, and are 

 of exceptional size. Medium-sized manors, ranging from i to 5 carucates, 

 are more evenly distributed throughout the county, but are specially common 

 in the hundreds of Samford, Blything, and Babergh. 



TABLE IV— DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE AND SMALL MANORS 



Name of Hundred 



Lackford 



Blackboum 



Bradmere . 



Hartismere 



Bishop's 



Wangford . 



Lothing 



Lothingland 



Thingoc . 



Thedwastre 



Stow . . 



Bosmere 



Claydon 



Loes . . 



Carlford 



Ipswich 



Parham 



Plomesgate 



Blything . 



Risbridge . 



Babergh 



Samford 



Cosford 

 Colneis . 

 Wilford . 



Number of Manors 

 in Hundred 



It 



10 

 18 



41 

 21 



39 



7 



19 



10 



7 

 10 



69 

 38 



32 

 2 

 8 

 36 

 74 

 19 

 38 

 82 



14 



9 



"9 



659 



Five Carucates and 

 over 



3 



o 

 I 



3 

 7 

 3 

 o 

 I 

 5 

 3 

 2 



3 

 I 

 I 



o 

 I 

 o 

 I 



4 



9 



1 1 



S 

 + I of 2 ' terrae ' 



4 

 o 

 I 



70 



One to Five 

 Carucates 



9 



9 



16 



17 



12 



8 



3 



9 



5 



4 



8 



20 



IS 



9 



16 



I 



4 



7 



33 



10 



26 



34 



10 



4 

 6 



295 



Under One 

 Carucate 



O 

 I 

 I 



21 



2 

 28 



4 



9 



o 



o 

 o 



46 



22 



IS 

 16 



o 

 4 



28 



37 

 o 

 I 



4* 



o 



S 

 12 



294. 



We would gladly know what was the precise territorial, economic, and 

 administrative unit to which the compilers of Domesday Book applied the 

 Norman term manerium, but the most patient investigation has hitherto failed 

 to induce the Survey to yield up its secret.^' One thing, at least, is certain. 

 Pre-Conquest England appeared to its Norman conquerors to be full of 

 maneria, which could be distinguished from vi7/ae and terrae, and non-manorial 

 holdings. In Suffolk, King Edward and his queen, the sons of Godwin, 

 Archbishop Stigand, the great religious houses, the king's thegns, and many 

 simple freemen, figure as lords of manors before the Conquest. In reality, 

 these seem to have been rather ' manors in the making ' than fully-developed 

 manorial organizations, and we may conclude, with Professor Vinogradoff,^' 

 that • the compilers of Domesday overstated their case when they currently 



" This paragraph and the next owe much to the suggestions and criticism of Prof. Vinogradoff. 

 " Engl. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. 339, 340. 



