Agricultural Statistics 



per plough, which, as they can seldom be dis- 

 entangled from bordars and sokemen, cannot be 

 done with precision. The casts differ somewhat 



ii. 392 ; zs paying forfeits, \jb ; as chattels (bore away a rustic Villani 



who was remaining on I virg.) 30/7 ; as holding land at farm, ' llustrated 



127^ ; as faying tithes, 380 ; freeman who had " now a villan, Domesday. 



ii. I ; as witnesses, \\b (de villanis et vili plebe), and ii. 393 ; 



as rent payers, 52^ (ios. p. ann.), 182/7 (18 villans, 6 bord., 



and I priest render 1 8s.), 263/2 (l villan, 8d.) ; as fractional 



persons, nob (| a villan), 168/7 (7 half vill.), 196/2 (i vill), 



and 252/7 (4 whole, and 6 half vill.) the partition seemingly 



in reference to amount of services due ; as paying relief on 



royal Manors. 30^ (205.), iSia (an ox) ; as faying gheld, 203/7; 



as rendering custom, ii. 5 (a villan had " and rendered custom) ; 



certain villans quit from all thing of the Sheriff, 30^ ; as holding 



or having held lands, 266 (the villans held it T. R. E.) ; 40/7 



(the like); \\b (41 vill. hold and held it) ; \lb (28 vill. 



hold and held it ; no hall) ; 73^ (the villans hold it) ; 175/3 



(the land was of the demesne of the villans) ; and 273/7 



(other 3 carucates of land are of the villans) ; as with specified 



holdings, izb (30 vill. held 4 solins, T. R. E.), 29/7 (i vill. 



holds and held I virg.), 192/7 (8 vill., 7^ ac. each), 198^ 



(5 vill. hold 255. worth of land), ii. 3 (l vill. holds 30 ac., 



another 15 ac.), ii. 5 (l vill. had ), and in Hanwell and 



West Bedfont, co. Midd., are 3 vill. with 2 Hides each, the 



highest amount writer has found (see p. 131); as to Status, 



41/7 (a certain prefect held $f Hides, 2 of them as a villan), 



41/7 (Aluric held 3 virg. as a villan), 68/7 (5^ Hides held by 



men of the church serving as villans), compare 175/7 (making 



services as other freemen), 269^ (thanes working as villans), 



and ii. 145 (6 free villans); as to Servile work, ija (the 



burgesses worked like vill. at the court), 166/7 (the reeve has 



i villans), 182/7 (the men of another vill labor in this one), 



246^ (8 burgesses working as other villans), and 291^ (the 



work of the villans pertains to Saxebi in Lines.) ; as to 



number of plough oxen varying from none to 3^ pis. to 3 villans 



(182^), which may be compared with 180/7(1 bordar, I pi.), 



in certain cases it might appear the villan had 2 pis., but 



such (21^, 317/7, and 327/7 Hugh has I vill. and 2 pis.) 



