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and Hides per virgate (at Haliwell, Hunts, a virg. 

 of 1 6 ac., at Elyngton, Hunts, a Hide of 120 ac. 

 in 5 virg., and at Gidding, Hunts, a Hide of 180 

 ac. in 6 virg.) and by collating the Ramsey Cartu- 

 lary with itself and the H. R. it may be seen that 

 in the same place changes occur at different times ; 

 thus at Dillington, Hunts, in 1279 (H. R.) the 

 virgate contains 18 ac., and about 1240 (Ramsey 

 Cart.) 33^ ac. These Hides have of course no 

 connexion with the amount of land ploughable 

 by one team p. a., and it may be observed both 

 from the Chartulary and the H. R. that certain 

 holdings are "out of Hide," and that the com- 



io<7, half a solin and 3 virgates, the virgate being the fourth 

 of a jugum (see Feudal England, p. 108), and ^a, 400^ acres 

 make ^\ solins, which with the entries of the Rochester 

 Custumal (p. 153) of 40 acres per jugum, and the absence of 

 further information in D. B., suggests that the solin might 

 have contained 160 and not 120 fiscal acres ; Leicester, 232^, 

 3 carucates less a virgate ; 236*7, 5 car. less I virg. ; and 

 237*7, one Hide of 12 or 18 car. la. ; Norfolk, vide ii. 1 68, 

 205, 224, and 237, as instances of actual or computed 

 measurements, which seem to have been not uncommon 

 here, thus ii. 171, \ league and 2 perches long by 4 quaren- 

 teens and 4 feet wide (in co. Bucks 145*, one Hide less 

 5 feet occurs); Ncrthants, 219^, 222/7, 223/2 and b, 225/7 

 (bis), and b (bis\ 226^, 227^ and 2286 afford ii unmis- Inter- 

 takeable instances of bovates (oxgangs) added to or sub- mixture of 

 tracted from Hides and Virgates ; Notts, 289^, a ferlingi< measures -- 

 seemingly equated to a bovate ; Rutland, 293^, 2 Hundreds 

 each of 12 fiscal carucates ; Salop, 253*7, 255/7, Fines of 

 Welsh land, and 260^, a ferling apparently of 10 acres ; 

 Suffolk, passim, presumptive actual or computed measure- 

 ments ; Torks, 376^, 2 measurements of Pontefract castellate, 

 and frequently the areas of manors, and the woods contained 

 in same are given, see p. 129, and note on p. 131 for co. Leics. 



