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which is agreeable to the addition of Classes 

 A, B, C, together with the 23,252 Servi (of 31 

 shires) ; viz., 195,128 for <55,/7<? teams, the re- 

 maining /5,^j>/ (of 210,359 total recorded) not 

 being necessary to the example, but of course 

 supported by above ploughs, and bringing up the 

 number of people (as found) to the correct figure. 

 This estimate presents the classes in due propor- 

 tion to each other, and assumes each villan plough 

 will average about half an acre per week, on the 

 lord's land for 10 months, tilling some 15-16 acres 

 p. a., as by Walter de Henley's scanty aration. 

 Prof. Maitland (p. 430 D. B. and Beyond} 



\r * _ ^^_ J I Carucates 



seems to create and then admire Atythe difficulties not Team- X 

 of the Norfolk and Suffolk " HidZges," with little It^"' 

 success in solving them ; he rightly observes " that ad , ,, 



O o / gheldum, 



there are upon an average about 2 teams to every but mainly 

 carucate is apparent on page after page of the estimates 

 record," and therefore concludes these carucates a f n ^ rable 

 are not teamlands, falling back on the supposition 

 that they may be units of assessment. There 

 should be little room to suppose they are either 

 Hides or Teamlands (as Prof. Maitland under- 

 stands a ploughland, i.e., 120 acres), to demon- 

 strate the former the Hundred of Thingo is ample, 

 occurring on fos. 286, 289, 349, 356-8, 381, 391, 

 401, 425, and 435 of D. B. ii., where the vills are 

 assessed to gheld in no proportions whatsoever to 

 the number of carucates they contain, as the follow- 

 ing approximate list [given in the order in which 

 the vills occur on p. 100, Feudal England (Round)] 

 demonstrates: y carucates, yd. ; i car. 6d. ; 5^- 

 c. 6d. ; 6^ c. 2od. ; 5 c. yd. ; 2| c. yd. ; 3^ c. 

 6$d. ; 3| c. icd. ; 3 c. lod. ; 3. c. yjd. ; 6 c. 



