Domesday Statistics 5 



The main statistical table is a compilation, the Main 



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acreage being from the census or 1891 (ancient table, 

 counties), the population from Ellis, the valets 

 and valuits from pp. 665-669 of Pearson's 

 " English History," and the rest from Professor 

 Maitland's " Domesday Book and Beyond/' with 

 small additions. 



As to population, some of the boroughs 

 1086 (notably London and Winchester) are 1377. 

 omitted in D. B. (Domesday Book), and pre- 

 sumably a considerable proportion of the in- 

 habitants of West Yorkshire, and all in North 

 Lancashire : however, the same persons are some- 

 times mentioned more than once, and females 

 occur notably as ancillas. In the present state 

 of our knowledge, 2,000,000 total population 

 would be an extreme figure for the forty counties 

 of modern England for 1086 : it is probable, from 

 the poll-tax returns of 1377, that at that date 

 the population might well lie between 2-| and 3 

 millions, and prior to the Black Death (1348-49) 

 4,000,000 and upwards, whereas 1,800,000 might 

 be a reasonable postulate from D. B. for 1086. 



The hides in the table include the carucates Units of 

 of the Danish districts and the sulungs of Kent, 

 and are estimated for the thirty-four recorded 

 counties ; for 1065-1086 they must be regarded 

 as units of assessment, not in any obvious con- 

 nection with area or value, and the underwritten 

 equations seem to prevail in D. B. : 



I hide = 4 virgates =120 fiscal acres. 



I carucate = 8 bovates = 120 ,, 



I sulung = 4 juga* =120 ,, 



* See, note p. 39. 



