Manor of 

 Coatham, 

 1086, and 

 1297. 



139 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



D. B. 1086. Cambridgeshire, Coatham, Abbot 

 Croyland (fo. 192^) ; 6 + 5 Hides ; 2 + 6 Team- 

 lands ; 1+6 Teams ; 1 2 Villans, 8 Bordars, 

 i Servus, that is 2 1 recorded folk, also meadow to 

 8 plough teams, and pasture for the vill stock, 

 and a marsh rated at 500 eels. 



Here again are 6 Hides set against 2 demesne 

 teamlands giving rise to suspicion that the marsh 



Genius of 

 the 



Romantic 

 School. 



X 



Fiscal 

 Hides do 

 not always 

 denote 

 Arable 

 land. 



our fountains of learning inspire their votaries with some- 

 thing of the " divine afflatus," those subtle qualifications may, 

 by the simple, easily be mistaken, for the mere manipula- 

 tions of the prestidigitateur ; and at any rate the dull path of 

 History is too confined a sphere for talents so impatient of 

 necessary bounds and limits, and better adapted to the more 

 sympathetic regions of Romance, for which their alma mater 

 has so adequately equipped them. There are of course 

 genuine students of History, even within the precincts of 

 learning, and one in especial, who has shed a particular lustre 

 on a School which stood greatly in need of it, of whom 

 every Yorkshire and English scholar may well be proud, and 

 whose works may justly rank with those of Brady, Dods- 

 worth, Dugdale, Madox, and Rymer. By way of illustra- 

 tion of Hides other than arable in D. B. ; for wood see [8o, 

 205*7, 212*7, 2i6a, 228*2, and 244*2 ; for castles, 62^, 248^; 

 for pasture, 49^ (defends for 5 y , the King claims as p a> for 

 his oxen), 65*7, 96*7, and 104*7; for gardens, 298*7 ; as in the 

 forest, 32*7, and 263^ ; as in meadow, ja (l jugum at farm, 

 nothing there but 2 ac. mea., worth ios.), 28^ (" and scots for 

 it, but only 10 ac. mea. worth 5s.); and 377^ (Warnode of 

 10 ac. mea.) ; as between wood and plain, 164*7 and 175^ 

 (numbered for 15 H. between wood and plain); the County 

 of Yorks generally, where the areas and values of whole 

 Manors, and the woods in them, are often separately com- 

 puted, the latter as part of the former ; also see the I. P.M. 

 of Elizabeth Moubrai, where the Manor of Kirkby Malesart 

 contains no arable land, but 2 carucates, the herbage of 

 which, etc., 38 Ed. III. 



