1 17 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



70,606 ploughs (8 oxen), with an average of 3*56 

 io86. aa> folk as recorded per team; in 34 counties (includ- 

 ing, however, most of Lanes, and parts of Cum- 

 berland and Westmorland) the recorded population 

 was 283,242; assuming 300,000 as the total for 

 the 40 modern counties, and ploughs in proportion 

 then would there have been a total of 84,000 

 teams; for a moment, allow 120 acres of tillage 

 per plough, then would there have been over 

 10,000,000 acres arable in 1086, keeping alive 

 some 1,800,000 folk as against a lesser amount 

 (10,000,000 ac.) for more than 3- that number 

 (i.e. 5,500,000 people) in 1696. 



Consump- Of the 2,2OO,ooo acres sown to barley (yield 

 Beer 1 5 bush, per ac.), King estimates to malt -f of the 

 yield, i.e., 2i-| million bush, (of 33,000,000), to 

 return a total of 12,400,000 barrels of beer (weak 

 and strong), which allows rather under i| pints 

 per day per head of population, which amount 

 (about 78 barrels) would be produced from \ of 

 that acre, per head, found by taking the statistics 

 of 1696: a result differing largely from Prof. 

 Maitland's -- gallon per day for every man, woman, 

 and child, amounting to some i\ gallons per re- 

 corded man, which princely munificence might 

 well cause the modern labourer to envy his ante- 

 cessor in the days of King William. Again, take 

 the 21 counties* whose teamlands are set forth on 

 p. 401 (D. B. and Beyond], and multiply them by 

 1 20, with a result of 6,282,480 ac. arable, against 

 5,650,425 in the present decade, of which latter 

 but 3,098,623 are in the crops of 1086 (the 

 balance mainly being food for stock) : and were 

 one to apply 1 80 acres (Canon Taylor in " Domes- 

 day Studies "), arithmetic would be set at defiance 



* Vide, p. 114. 



