Agricultural Statistics 



Derails f Demesne: 4 ac -( ?I ac. yard) 40- 1 ^1 



JL/ V- Lai lo If l 



I ac. by I free tenant ... i I I co4- 

 or above -{ , J .,, r -x 4 , 



f , I 1 10 ac. by 1 1 villani 1 10 or I oof ac. 



ac 'l 8i ac. by 7 cottars 8*J 



The Hidage at both periods totals 26^, but 

 whereas 73 folk are on record 1086 ; 195 are 

 noted in 1278, and the Inquisition then finds by 

 detail i Hide and 1513 ac. of land, so that there 

 is presumably a balance of land in common of 

 pasture, waste, etc., which inference the D. B. 

 entry (fo. 1900) seems to confirm, for in demesne 

 there were 2 Teams, 3 Teamlands, and 8 Hides ; 

 supposing the Hide (not recorded in acres) in 1278 

 contained 120 acres, then would there have been 

 1633 (less, as some described as meadow) acres 

 arable, and yet in 1086, with less than, half the 

 recorded population, there were 19 Teamlands and 

 14 Teams. 



The Hundred Rolls often set forth the total 

 Hides* and proceed to give them in detail approxi- 

 mately agreeing at the rate of 120 acres per Hide 

 (or some other stated no. of acres), but in the 

 above the fiscal Hidage of D. B. is given as a 

 heading ; and lest the view that such Hides might 

 be answered from land not all arable be thought 

 fanciful, I append the followingf : 



* In some cases, however, the Hides of the Hundred 

 Rolls do not seem to correspond with the cultivated area of 

 the Manors described. 



f Assumptions that the fiscal Hide is of necessity rated on 

 arable alone, merely discovers their authors' lack of acquaint- 

 ance with Domesday, and that such are of a certain class or 

 historic writers, the brightness of whose genius enables them 

 to expound that record without having read it ; but though 



