Analysis of Domesday. 



One explanation can alone be given to such facts that only the 

 waste lands were enclosed, and the cultivated spared. 



The village of Totton, though close to the Forest, was not 

 touched, although all the neighbouring hamlets were in various 

 degrees afforested, simply because it consisted of only pasture 

 and plough-land, whose value had increased no less than one- 

 fourth. The hamlets of Barton literally, Bere-tun, the corn 

 village and Chewton, where to this day is the best land in the 

 south-west of Hampshire, were also spared ; though we find all 

 the neighbouring villages and manors, Milton, Beckley, Bashley, 

 Fernhill, Whitefields, Arnwood, all more or less enclosed ; the 

 reason being, as was before said, that the Conqueror took only 

 the waste lands and the woods. 



In the woods which were afforested people were allowed to 

 live ;* though, probably, they voluntarily left them, as labour 

 could not there be so well obtained as in the linafforested parts. f 

 In all other respects there seems to have been no disarrange- 

 ment. Both on the outskirts and in the heart of the Forest, 

 the villains and borderers still worked as before, carrying on 

 their former occupations 4 The mills at Bashley, and Milford, 

 and Burgate, all in the Forest, went on the same. The fisheries 

 at Holdenhurst and Dibden were undisturbed. The salterns at 

 Eling and Hordle still continued at work, showing that the 

 people still, as before, sowed and reaped their corn, and pas- 

 tured and killed their cattle. 



* See in Domesday, as before, p. xxvii.b, the entry under Langelei "Aluric 

 Petit tenet unam virgatam in Foresta." See, too, p. iii. b, under Edlinges. 



t See in Domesday, under Thuinam, Holeest, Slacham, Rinwede, p.iv.a; 

 and Herdel, p. xxviii. b. 



| See in Domesday, out of many instances, Esselei and Suei, p. xxix. b ; 

 Bailocheslei, p. xiv. b ; Wolnetune and Bedeski, p. xxviii. a ; Hentune, 

 p. xxviii. b ; and Linhest, p. iv. a. 



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