i] An Etizabethan Survey and Domesday Book. 7 



In the Norfolk Domesday the holdings are regularly rated in 

 terms of carucates and acres. These were probably fiscal rather than 

 areal^ The arable area might be calculated from the number of 

 ox-teams if we knew how many acres to reckon to a team, but the 

 size of the team land probably varied from place to place ^. It is clear 

 from the following table that there was no room in the Forncett 

 parishes for team lands of 120 acres, or 15 acres to each ox. 



Forncett St Mary. 



It was generally the case in East Anglia that manor and vill were 

 not coterminous^ They were not coterminous in Forncett. But 

 by far the larger part of the parish of St Mary — 691 acres'^ — was held 

 of Forncett manor. The remaining 60 a. i r. were held, of Tacolneston 

 44 a. 3^ r., Williams 9 a. 2\ r., Clavers 5 a., Tharston 3 r. . 



The parish of St Peter's was held of 14 manors : Forncett (about 

 1000 acres^), Clavers, Richmond (as of manor of Cossey), Jermyes, 

 Tacolneston, Moulton, Williams, Tharston, Haydon, Aslacton Park's, 

 Wacton, Bunwell, Aslacton Priory, Banyarde's Hall. 



^ Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, 429 ff. 



2 Maitland, op. cit. 433-5- But cf. Vinogradoff, Groiuth of Manor, 156 flf., 254 ff., where 

 arguments are advanced in favour of an average plowland of 120 acres throughout England. 



^ The dimensions of Keklington are not given in Domesday and the number of acres at 

 which it was rated is very small in proportion to its area of arable at a later time. The amount 

 of geld with which it was charged is not stated. Either the Domesday account of Keklington 

 is incomplete or else Keklington was a very small hamlet in io86. It is noteworthy that 

 Westwood is not included in the Domesday account of Keklington. 



^ Including Westwood Ridding (91 statute a, 120 a local measure). 



^ With the possible exception of Ashwellthorpe, there was not a vill in Depwade Hundred 

 ui 1086 that was not held of more than one lord. Blomefield, op. cit. v. 125-312. 

 Maitland, op. cit. 22, 23. 



** Not including the commons. 



