A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



to be more plough-lands than teams, and these two quantities approxi- 

 mate pretty closely to each other throughout the shire. In Derbyshire, 

 on the other hand, the plough-lands keep fairly close to the gelding 

 carucates, but are 100 below the number of existing teams. The pecu- 

 liarity of the case of Nottinghamshire is that while the teams exceed the 

 plough-lands by 736, the latter are 688 in excess of the fiscal units. For the 

 sake of clearness, we may express these figures in the following table : 



Lincolnshire 

 Derbyshire 

 Nottinghamshire . 



Carucates 



4188 



679 



56 7 



Plough-lands 



5043 



762 



1255 



Teams 



4712 



862 



1991 : 



But a further point which comes out strikingly on an analysis of 

 the survey of our county is that the plough-lands, like the carucates of 

 assessment, tend to be distributed among the vills according to a 

 duodecimal system. Below is given a series of instances arranged 

 according to wapentakes : 



Rushdiffe 



Blngham 



Plough- 

 lands Teams 



12 



9 

 6 



6 

 6 



3 

 3 

 3 



12 



6 



Si 



9 

 9 



4 

 6 



9 

 3 

 4 



Whatton 



Shelford 



Bingham 



Staunton 



Barnston 



Radcliffe 



Bassingfield 



Clipstone 



Scarrington 



Mansfield and 



wicks' 

 Trowell 

 Arnold 

 Radford 

 Stapleford 

 Cossall 

 ' Mortune ' 

 Annesley 

 Teversall 



Broxtow 



Car. Bov. 



Plough- 

 lands Teams 



'here- 



Thurgarton 



Car. Bov. 



Southwell and ' bere- 



wicks ' .... 22 4 

 Rolleston .... 4 4 

 Gunthorpe 33 

 Thurgarton 33 



Oxton 22 



Lambley .... 2 2 

 Blidworth i i 



-Udt' 



Professor Maitland's figures. 



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