2 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



constituted) is a total of 283,242 recorded folk, 

 of which, in rough percentages : 



7 



/o 



Villans 108,456 .. 38 



Bordars ... ... 82,624 



Servi 25,156 



Sokemen ... ... 23,090 



Liberi Homines ... 12,384 



Burgesses ... ... 7,968 



Mesne Lords ... 7,871 



Cottars ... ... 6,819 



Tenants-in-chief ... 1,400 



Homines ... ... l ,z% 



29 



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4 

 3 



4 

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making a sum of 277,055, or some 98 % of the 

 whole, the most prominent of the remainder 

 being 995 presbyters, 920 coliberti, 749 bovarii, 

 565 radknights, 467 female servants, 427 por- 

 carii) 354 Frenchmen, 207 of the establishment 

 of Bury St. Edmund's Monastery, 178 paupers, 

 159 censarii, 137 milites, ill Welshmen, ill 

 fishermen, and 108 salt-workers. It should be 

 noticed that almost four-fifths of the population are 

 comprised under villans, bordars, cottars, and servi, 

 and in the following table (p. 3) it will be seen 

 that in more than three-fourths of the thirty-four 

 counties, nine-tenths of the population are com- 

 posed of villans, bordars, cottars, servi, sokemen, 

 and liberi homines. 



The county constitution table is intended to 

 show features peculiar to districts : in each shire 

 the whole of the recorded population is accounted 

 for, save from 5 / Q to o /, and all classes are noted 

 which amount to or exceed i % in all of the thirty- 

 four counties. 



