i] An Elizabethan .V//r,-rr (tint /)t>nii's</(i\' /; 



Iii the Norfolk Domrsd.iy the hoMin; ^ularly rated in 



terms of eanir.ites ,ind acres. T! re probably fiscal rather than 



areal 1 . The arable are.i mi;.;ht be calculated from the: number of 

 ox-teams if \ve knew ho\v many acre, to reckon to a team, but the 

 si/.e of the team land probably varied from place to place-. It is < 

 from the following table that there was no room in the Korncett 

 parishes for team lands of 120 acres, or 15 acres to each ox. 



Arable 



Meadow 



Wood 



Arable 



Meadow 



Wood 



Arable 



Meadow 



Wood 



473 a. 

 106 a. 

 75 a. 



765 a. 

 43 a. 

 34 a. 



iosr> 

 60 oxen 



St Mary. 



1066 

 84 oxen 



Twanton and Middleton. 

 84 oxen 92 oxen 



Keklington*. 



599 a. 

 35 a. 

 13 a. 



22 oxen 



20 oxen 



1066 



324 fiscal acres 



27 a. 



wood for 8 * pore ' 



364^ fiscal acres 

 21 a. 



136 fiscal acres 

 7 a. 



It was generally the case in East Anglia that manor and vill were 

 not coterminous 5 . They were not coterminous in Forncett. But 

 by far the larger part of the parish of St Mary 691 acres' 5 was held 

 of Forncett manor. The remaining 60 a. I r. were held, of Tacolneston 

 44 a. 3^ r., Williams 9 a. 2\ r., Clavers 5 a., Tharston 3 r. 



The parish of St Peter's was held of 14 manors : Forncett (about 

 1000 acres 6 ), Clavers, Richmond (as of manor of Cossey), Jermyes, 

 Tacolneston, Moulton, Williams, Tharston, Haydon, Aslacton Park's, 

 \Yacton, Bunwell, Aslacton Priory, Banyarde's Hall. 



1 Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, 429 ff. 



2 Maitland, op. cil. 433-5. But cf. Vinogradoff, Growth of Manor, 156 ff., 754 ff., where 

 arguments are advanced in favour of an average plowland of 120 acres throughout England. 



3 The dimensions of Keklington are not given in Domesday and the number of acres at 

 which it was rated is very small in proportion to its area of arable at a later time. The amount 

 of geld with which it was charged is not stated. Either the Domesday account of Keklington 

 is incomplete or else Keklington was a very small hamlet in io<S6. It is noteworthy that 

 West wood is not included in the Domesday account of Keklington. 



4 Including West wood Ridding (91 statute a, I2oa local measure). 



-' With the possible exception of Ashwellthorpe, there was not a vill in Depwade I lundred 

 in io-S6 that was not held of more than one lord. Blomefield, <>/>. cit. v. 125-312. 

 Maitland, op. cit. 22, 23. 



11 Not including the commons. 



