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32,544,084 total acres of which 3,759,671 in 

 5 counties (Cumberland, Durham, Monmouth, 

 Northumberland, and Westmorland,) not in 

 D. B., assuming Lancashire as returned ; total 

 recorded population 283,242 (Ellis), expanded 

 to 300.000 for the missing shires, giving 5,586 

 ploughs for their supposed " recorded folk." Of 

 the 4 counties Prof. Maitland does not give 

 Yorkshire has some 2,959, Rutland 239 teams, 

 and I have assumed 940 for Cheshire, and 3,800 

 for Suffolk, which with the 5,586 (above) and 

 70,606 adds to 84,130. The population for 

 Lines, Norfolk, and Suffolk seems quite untrust- Fallacy of 

 worthy (see note, p. 12), and to estimate the^ r e esi 

 number of oxen possessed by the average villein, counties. 

 it is therefore necessary to omit them, and take 

 statistics from the 31 remaining counties of D. B. : 

 empirically divide the population into 4 classes, 

 A, villans, sokemen, liber i homines, coliberts, and 

 censarii ; B, bordars, cottars, and coscez ; C, 

 Homines, radknights, Frenchmen, milites, thanes, 

 and drenghs ; D, the balance, including lords, 

 mesne lords, burgesses, priests, swineherds, Welsh- 

 men, reeves, etc. ; and assume Class A at 3 per 

 plough, at 8, C at i, D at no teams save the 

 demesne ones of mediate and immediate lords. 

 This is of course incorrect, as many of the bur- 

 gesses, priests, etc., had ploughs, but one assump- 

 tion to a certain extent balances another, and the 

 erudite supporters of the villeins should allow this 

 mode of computation rather increases (unduly 

 perhaps) their status : taking the recorded popu- 

 lation of the 34 counties, Class A consists of some 



