DOMESDAY SURVEY 



the other hand, in the survey of Leicester, the capital of another of the 

 counties of the true Danelaw, as at Oxford, we are distinctly told that 

 the ora consisted of 20 pence, but in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire 

 we know that the reckoning of 16 pence held good. The denomi- 

 nation is not mentioned by name in Nottinghamshire, but the following 

 table certainly suggests that the 16 pence equation was recognized in 

 this county also : 



' d. 

 014 

 028 



Value T.R.E. at : 



Value T.R.W. at i 



054 



o 10 8 



0160 



Clarborough Clarborough 



Kinoulton 



Xhrumpton Thrumpton 



Rempstone 



Oxton 



Calverton 



West Dray ton 



Aslockton Aslockton 



Carlton on Trent 



Woodborough Woodborough 



Trowell 



.Chilwell Costock 



( Fenton Fenton 



' "] Knapthorpe Knapthorpe 



( Welham 



East Markham East Markham 



Gotham Gotham 



Greasley Beckingham 



Oxton Kelham 



Cossall Eakring 



Normanton-by-Southwell . . North Muskham 



Cropwell Butler 



Calverton 



South Muskham 



The same unit is very prominent in the valuation of mills, a fact 

 which Mr. Round has noticed elsewhere. Thus mills at Newark, 

 Barnby in the Willows, Epperstone, Oxton, Staunton, and Hawton were 

 valued at 5^. ^d. each, the mill at Tuxford was worth IGJ. 8</., while 

 those at Laneham, East Markham, Kirklington, Warsop, Hickling, and 

 Teversall, were estimated at i6j. each, and at Tilne, Clarborough, and 

 Bole we read of 'two mills rendering i 12s.' Apart from mills, the 

 fishery at Dunham had been worth IQJ. 8</., and two of the most impor- 

 tant ferries across the Trent, at Gunthorpe and Fiskerton, had brought 

 in 1 i os. %d. and 2 6s. 8d. respectively, the last of course representing 

 a sum of seven half-marks. 1 



In the Victoria History of Derbyshire it was pointed out that the 

 existence of this ' ora ' of 1 6d. threw a little light upon the curious 

 series of fines by which the king's peace was safeguarded in Nottingham- 

 shire and Derbyshire. The statement in question, which is repeated 



1 For the value of the ' ora ' compare Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions, by Mr. H. M. Chadwick, 

 who, however, regards the Domesday evidence as pointing exclusively to an ' ora ' of 20 pence. 



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