A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



to the supposition that the Derbyshire teamland had ever been a fiscal 

 unit. 1 One difficult phrase, however, deserves attention here. At the 

 end of the fief of Henry de Ferrers two entries occur which have the 

 appearance in the manuscript of being somewhat later additions to the 

 text. The first of these entries will be discussed later, the second relates 

 to Edensor, where we read, ' Henry now has 4 carucates of land (assessed) 

 to the geld and " totidem car' ad arandum." A good deal depends on the 

 way in which we extend the compendium ' car' ' in this entry. If we 

 render it as carucatarum we shall have an extremely rare reference in this 

 part of England to the actual field carucates existing in the manor ; if we 

 read carucarum we shall have a no less unusual phrase, which we must 

 translate ' teams for ploughing.' On the whole the former seems the 

 more natural rendering ; but the known habits of the Domesday scribes 

 prove them to be quite capable of the tautology which would exist if the 

 second reading were the true one. However, as in the account of the 

 borough of Nottingham we read of ' vi caruc' terras ad arandum,' * where 

 ' caruc,' must undoubtedly be extended as * carucatas,' we may use this 

 phrase to illustrate our Edensor entry 8 and to support the first reading 

 given above. It is therefore very interesting in this solitary reference 

 to the ' real ' carucates existing on the land to find them identical in 

 numbers with the fiscal carucates representing the assessment of the manor. 

 It is impossible to read the Domesday account of Derbyshire without 

 being struck by the enormous amount of land entered as ' waste.' No 

 less than 10 per cent, of the total number of places mentioned in the 

 county are entered with this significant phrase attached to them, and they 

 are scattered so widely that nothing is to be learned from the study of 

 their distribution. Much of this waste is probably due to the devastation 

 of Derbyshire which we know to have taken place when King William put 

 down the revolt of Stafford. We have, however, to remember that when 

 a place is entered in Domesday as waste, this does not necessarily imply 

 that its land was thrown entirely out of cultivation. In Derbyshire at 

 least a devastated manor will commonly be credited with a small value, 

 usually, of course, showing a large decline from that assigned to it for the 

 time of King Edward. Thus taking a few instances : 



Value T.R.E. Value T.R.W. 



L ' d. ,. d. 



Tupton ...080 ..050 



Totley . . . o 10 O 



Killamarsh . . 014 



Willesley . . i o o 



Hartshorn . . 400 



Barrow-on-Trent . o 13 4 



Chellaston . . o 12 O 



Ravenstone . . O 15 o 



Donisthorpe . . 050 



Oakthorpe . . 050 



' Trangesbi ' . 050 



I o 



010 



0160 



10 o o 



200 



300 



1 o o 

 100 

 004 



1 The difficult questions connected with the ploughland are discussed in Domesday Book and Beyond, 

 p. 418 ff. 



8 Fol. 280. 8 On the 'carucata ad arandum,' see Round, Domesday Studies, 199 ff. 



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