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The Domesday Hides amount in number to 

 about 67,000* in 34 counties, and approximate 

 to same circa 1150 (see Tables): a comparison 

 with the Leicestershire Survey 1124-9 * s made 

 in Feudal England (Round), and another can 

 be done from Gale's Register of the Honour 

 of Richmond for Hang, Gilling, and Halikeld Occasional 

 Wapentakes 30 Hen. II. (1183-4), the carucates s ^ 

 of which are almost identical with those of the 

 Book of Winton (1086) ; the reference occurs on 

 pp. 24-6, and on pp. 22-3 presumably of the same 

 date (30 Hen. II.), are fines to the Sheriff com- 

 puted at 45. yd. per Tenmantele, (10 men equal to 

 14 carucates), and it is curious to observe that 

 taking the Domesday figures as 10,09 5 1 (Maitland) 

 the Danegeld would be 16 5-^1 6 6, at the above 

 rate, and that the actual amount named in 31 

 Hen. I. (Pipe Roll) is 114 os. 4d., plus 

 $i 193. 2d. by pardons. Some further illus- 

 trations of the occasional stability of Hides are 

 given later from the H. R. of Ed. I., also com- 

 parison of the Survey of St. Paul's Manors (1222) 

 in Essex, Herts, Middlesex and Surrey shows 

 practical identity with 1086, and the appended 

 table collating the Ramsey Abbey Manors 



fiscal administration, thus : Beds, 2oya (bis), 209^ (ter) ; 

 Cambs, 197*; Chester, 262 b ; Essex, ii. ^ (bis), and 3; 

 Hants, 5cw ; Hereford, 179^; Norf., ii. 118, 119, and 276 

 (the royal treasury) ; Salop, 254/2 ; Surrey, 30^ ; Wilts, 6ya ; 

 Worcester, 172*7. 



* Prof. Maitland's Norfolk " Hidage " has been used here, 

 though not agreeable to the evidence of D. B. 



t For Yorks ; but land between Tyne and Tees (not in 

 D. B.) is accounted for in 8 Hen. II. 



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