A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



Ashbourne, and Parwich, which may be displayed thus (the figures 

 represent carucates) : l 



Ashbourne 

 Mapleton 

 Bradley . 

 Thorpe . 

 Fenny Bentley 

 Offcote . 

 Hognaston 



3 



2 

 2 



4 



2 

 2 

 2 



4 



21 



3 

 2 

 2 



2 

 2 

 2 



4 



21 O 



6 o 



Wirksworth 

 Cromford . 

 Middleton . 

 Hopton . 

 'Welledene' 

 Carsington . 

 Callow . 

 Kirk Ireton. 



Parwich 



Hanson Grange \ (40] 



Alsop le Dale . > a of 



Cold Eaton . J ) 



It will be seen here that the 21 carucates assigned to Wirksworth 

 and its berewicks are exactly balanced by the 17 and 4 carucates belonging 

 respectively to Ashbourne and Parwich with their appendages, the whole 

 group making up a joint sum of 42 carucates. This case is of some 

 importance, because it shows that rather unpromising figures may 

 combine to make a purely duodecimal total. Still neater, however, is the 

 case of Longdendale, the constituent manors of which form an isolated 

 group in the extreme north-west of the county : 



car. bov. 



Thornsett . . . . . 4 ") 



Ludworth 



Charlesworth and Chisworth 

 Chunal .... 

 Hadfield 

 Padfield 

 Dinting 

 Glossop . 



Whitfield 4 } 2 O 



Hayfield 

 Kinder 



Here the roundness of the total, which in this case is supplied by 

 Domesday itself, and the symmetry of the group, which, by simply 

 following the order in which the places are mentioned are entered in the 

 survey, falls naturally into three sections of 2 carucates each, are alike 

 remarkable. And the second point makes it advisable to remember that 

 a very large proportion of the vills of Derbyshire was assessed either at 

 2 or 4 carucates each. There is no need to give instances, which occur 

 on every page of the record ; and, in face of the Longdendale example 

 given above, we cannot doubt that if we only possessed the key to the 

 grouping of these figures we should find them duly combined in blocks of 

 six and twelve. But it may be well to give three instances in which 

 fractional assessments work out to figures of this kind. Such are Ticknall, 

 assessed at 4 carucates (2^ + f + i) ; Ingleby, at 2 (f +!.+ $ -f T ' T ), 

 and Risley, which before the Conquest had been divided thus : 

 Wulfsige ('Ulsi ') . . . 5 $ bovates \ 

 Godric . . . . 5 j 1-Total, 2 carucates. 



Leofwinc (' Lewine ') . 5^ J 



1 The places are here set out in the order in which they occur in Domesday. 



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