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64d. ; 4 c. yd. ; 2^ c. yd. ; 37^- c. yd. ; i c. 6d. ; 

 6^ c. 2od. ; 4^ c. i3^d. ; 4-! c. 6^d. ; 6 c. 2od. ; 

 y and 5 c. 6od. Prof. Maitland, with needless 

 candour, states that to a knowledge of Agricul- 

 ture, he does not attain but founds his historic 

 theories on conceptions (or rather misconceptions,) 

 of that necessary Art, his admissions notwithstand- 

 fbove f m & ' t ^ ie Abbot of Ely plainly informs (p. 122 

 statement. /. E. in Hamilton's /. C. C.) that (c. 1086) he 

 has 8^ (6y+ 16) carucates of land -plus 33 acres, 

 land to iqi ploughs, of which 122^ there, in 

 Norfolk ; and 109 (69 + 40) car. of land plus 42 

 (32 + 10) acres in Suffolk, where land to 248 

 ploughs, and 219^ there, which is good evidence 

 that the teamlands are better than twice the 

 number of carucates. That these carucates are 

 not the usual fiscal Hides has just been shown ; 

 besides the assessment to danegeld, etc., is given 

 in quite an unusual form in these counties ; as a 

 rule the carucates of Norfolk and Suffolk seem to 

 be the amount of land that might be under the 

 plough, together with perhaps the appurtenances 

 (several meadow and pasture), of a teamland, each 

 carucate computed at 120 acres ; the idea that 

 this amount of land is the work of one plough 

 is unknown to experience, and however practicable 

 it may appear to any ex cathedra theorist, he is 

 here confronted by the fact that such a calculation 

 is refuted on " page after page " of his record, and 

 by the singular appearance of the statistical conse- 

 quences of such a surmise. If the carucates of the 

 Ely Manors in either Norfolk or Suffolk are 

 divided by the Teamlands, the quotient in both 



