2 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



constituted) is a total of 283,242 recorded folk, 

 of which, in rough percentages : 



Villans 108,456 .. 38 



Bordars ... ... 82,624 29 



Servi 25,156 .. 9 



Sokemen ... ... 23,090 .. 8 



Liberi Homines ... 12,384 .. 4 



Burgesses ... ... 7,968 .. 3 



Mesne Lords ... 7,871 .. 3 



Cottars 6,819 2 i 



Tenants-in-chief ... 1,400 .. \ 



Homines 1,287 



making a sum of 277,055, or some 98 % of the 

 whole, the most prominent of the remainder 

 being 995 presbyters, 920 coliberti, 749 bovarii y 

 565 radknights, 467 female servants, 427 por- 

 carii, 354 Frenchmen, 207 of the establishment 

 of Bury St. Edmund's Monastery, 178 paupers, 

 159 censarii, 137 milites, 111 Welshmen, ill 

 fishermen, and 108 salt-workers. It should be 

 noticed that almost four-fifths of the population are 

 comprised under villans, bordars, cottars, and servi, 

 and in the following table (p. 3) it will be seen 

 that in more than three-fourths of the thirty-four 

 counties, nine-tenths of the population are com- 

 posed of villans, bordars, cottars, servi, sokemen, 

 and liberi homines. 



The county constitution table is intended to 

 show features peculiar to districts: in each shire 

 the whole of the recorded population is accounted 

 for, save from 5 % to o %, and all classes are noted 

 which amount to or exceed i % in all of the thirty- 

 four counties. 



