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scantiness and dates, reference to the paper on 

 the Prae-Domesday Hide of Glos'ter by the 

 editor of the Journal of the Bristol etc. Arch. Soc. 

 should give full satisfaction for that county. Not 

 that it is meant to say that all the land in Domes- 

 day, or any considerable portion thereof, can be 

 accounted for in A.S. Charters, but that in so hard 

 a comparison there are striking instances of simi- 

 larity ; not much do these deeds tell of actual 

 Husbandry, but Seebohm (p. 139 Eng. Fill. 

 Comm.) cites Abba's Will A.D. 835 (K. 235) in 

 support of the 120 acre theory, which said testator 

 bequeaths a ^ Sulung with 4 oxen, 2 cows, and 

 50 sheep thereto, but as may be discovered from 

 Domesday Sulings were fiscal as well as areal units, 

 and should this half one mean 60 acres, at least 20 

 in grass would be wanted for the support of the 

 stock named. Again teamlands in A.S. deeds 

 were (at any rate some times) of estimate ; thus 

 A.D. 774 (K. 121) " et huius terras estimatio v. 

 aratorum " and A.D. 738 (K. 85) "id est decem 

 aratorum iuxta asstimationem prouincias eiusdem."; 

 further A.D. 1016-1020 (K. 732) in Godwin's 

 marriage contract " on Burwaramerse other half 

 100 acres and thereto 30 oxen, and 20 cows and 

 10 horses, and ten theowmen " and on fo. lib 

 (D. B.) under Burwarmaresc, the lands is 12 pis., 

 4 in demesne, and 44 villans with 5 bordars have 

 10 pis., which is not disagreeable (i.e. 4 dem. pis.) 

 to the above, and also Add. Ch. 19,796 in the 

 Abbot of Evesham's lease of A.D. 1017-1023, for 

 3 lives of 3 Hides to inware and other half to 

 outware, but i man, 6 oxen, 20 sheep, and 20 

 acres sown to corn are to revert to the Minster on 

 the termination of the agreement for Norton, which 



