DOMESDAY SURVEY 



groups to be expressed on a duodecimal system of repartition in view of 

 the favourable treatment which the county as a whole received in the 

 apportionment of the geld. 



We may now proceed to the assessment of our county in detail, 

 remembering always that the unit of taxation was not the ' manor ' but the 

 vill, for in Nottinghamshire the two were rarely identical even at the date 

 of the survey. Beginning with Broxtow wapentake we may note the 

 following as instances of assessment at 3 carucates : Toton, Beeston, 

 Lenton (i + J+2), Radford, Sutton Passeys (ij+ij), Trowell 

 (iJ+i + J + i), and probably Bramcote (| 1 + J + 2). Cossall (l + l), 

 Strelley (t + i + l), and ' Mortune ' stand at ij carucates each, all these 

 places lying west of Nottingham in the angle formed by the Trent 

 and Erewash. To the immediate north of them occurs a curious belt 

 of small vills such as Bilborough, Awsworth, Kimberley, Nuthall, 

 Greasley, Eastwood, and Brinsley, which are assessed at only i carucate 

 or less each, and therefore do not illustrate any system, while the north 

 of the wapentake was occupied by the king's great manor of Mansfield; 

 but across the Leen we find Arnold and Papplewick (2! + f) rated at 

 3 carucates each, with Linby near Papplewick and Kirkby in Ashfield 

 further west (li + i) both answering for ij carucates. On passing the 

 water-parting of the Erewash and Idle into Bassetlaw wapentake we 

 find, lying along the road from Mansfield to Tickhill, Warsop, Cuckney 

 (1 + 2), and Worksop assessed at 3 carucates; Mattersey in the extreme 

 north of the county (ii + i), Bothamsall, Elkesley (J + J + J), Houghton, 

 Tuxford, and Ruffbrd standing at ij carucates each. In the adjoining 

 wapentake of ' Lide ' occur Kneesall with Kersall, Winkburn, Hocker- 

 ton (i+i+f), and Norwell rated at ij carucates; Averham, Cromwell 

 (1+2|), and Sutton upon Trent (2f + + J) at 3. 



Crossing the Greet into Thurgarton wapentake, the assessments at 

 first sight appear so unintelligible that it may be well to set them forth 

 in tabular form : 



Carucates Bovates Team-lands 



Southwell with berewicks . . 22 4 24 



Rolleston 4 4 9 



Thurgarton 3 3 6 



Gunthorpe 3 3 6 



Lambley 2 2 3 



Oxton 2 2 6 



Hoveringham 2 2 4 



Staythorpe I I 2 



Blidworth I I 3 



To these instances we may add that one manor in Bulcote and another in 

 Fiskerton were each assessed at 2 carucates, 2 bovates. Now the highest 

 common factor which can underlie all these figures is the strange sum of 

 9 bovates, a unit which seems absolutely confined to this wapentake. 

 What the meaning of this curious system may be, it would be difficult 

 to say, and the difficulty is not lessened by the fact that two of the above 



1 Possibly the figure here is ' v ' not ' vi ' (bovates). 

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