iS An Elizabethan Survey and Domesday Book. [ch. 



The following table shows the arable area included in each of the 

 22 tenements listed in the Survey \ 



122 



917 a. I r. 



Fifty-eight tenements were 5 acres or less ; 42 were from 5 to 10 

 acres ; 20 from 10 to 20 acres ; 2 from 20 to 30 acres. The average 

 tenement included only 7*5 acres of arable land ; the typical 

 customers' tenement was only 5 acres. 



Very small tenements were also the rule in Forncett vill in 1086. 

 The population of Forncett in King William's time is recorded in 

 Domesday as follows : 



50 



16 



42 



115 



As it is only in the case of St Mary's that both the Domesday 

 record and the Survey appear to be complete, most weight must be 

 attached to the statistics of that parish. The population of St Mary's, 

 as given in Domesday, was 34 (not counting the slave). The arable 

 area in St Mary's in 1565 was 473 acres. It could not have 

 been more in 1086. In 1565 the arable demesne was 100 acres ; in 



^ Since at least 13 additional tenements are mentioned in the Court Rolls, there were 

 altogether about 135 tenements. See Appendix IV., Nos. 123-135. 



