145 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



in another inquisition 'tis noted that each sokeman 

 must bring to the work of the lord at the rate of 

 one plough for every 4 bovates held in socage. 

 Not that a carucate of land in demesne always 

 means the amount of land which corresponds to 

 the number of ploughs the lord holds, for in the 

 Reg. Roff. on cross-examination the bailiffs of the 

 Manors state the number of dominical teams, and 

 Rochester also that they have not as many carucates of land, 

 s. ' because there are not in those Manors the number 

 of acres which by custom of the district would 

 make corresponding carucates, and further it must 

 be remembered that this word is sometimes used 

 for fiscal (not areal) units, as in the carucated 

 counties in Domesday, and in Kirkby's Quest, 

 the Books of Knights' Fees, and of Aids for 

 Yorkshire, also sometimes in I. P. M.S. 



A.D. 1086, NINE COUNTIES TABLE FROM D. B. 



Proportion 

 of teams in 

 demesne, 

 1086. 



* The result arrived at by dividing the number of villeins 

 in the county by the tenant? ploughs, as the latter are owned 

 by as well villani as others, the quotients of course are usually 

 far too low. 



