NOTE 



The reader should bear in mind throughout that the 

 date of the Domesday Survey is 1086 ; that King Edward, 

 to whose time it refers as 'T.R.E.', died January 5, 

 1066 ; that the ' hide ' was the unit of assessment on which 

 the (Dane) geld was paid, and that the 'virgate' was its 

 quarter. The essential portion of the plough (' caruca ') 

 was its team of oxen, eight in number. The ' demesne ' 

 was the lord's portion of the manor, the peasantry holding 

 the rest of it under him. Of the peasantry, the ' villeins ' 

 far outnumbered all the other agricultural classes ; below 

 them were the bordars and cottars ; and, lowest of all, the 

 serfs. Pannage was the due for feeding swine on the 

 mast in the woodlands. The (water)mills, to which the 

 peasantry were bound to send their corn to be ground, 

 were occasionally at some distance from the bulk of the 

 manor. 



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