Domesday Statistics 



The first may possibly be an instance of college college 

 farming, as it occurs in Professor Rogers' " History farmm ^ 

 of Agriculture," and is repeated in that singular 

 unbending of University erudition to popular 

 requirements (" Social England ") by the writer 

 on "Agriculture": though no one should be so 

 exacting as to seek particular knowledge of so 

 base an art from scribes of scholarly attainments, 

 it may be pointed out that the Bayeux Tapestry 

 and Loutrell Psalter (c. 1340) give undeniable 

 pictorial representations of harrowing ; again, D. B. 

 (fo. 163 and 1 66) notes the practice also the 

 Burton Chartulary (///^), and, indeed, almost 

 every custumal of any length, works which his- 

 torical writers might well condescend to. 



The second is quoted on p. 58 (Taylor's 

 " Analysis of Glos'ter Domesday Book," 1889) 

 now, if the ploughing of an acre is too hard 

 a problem in arithmetic to design on paper, any 

 ploughman could testify he goes about 10 miles 

 per acre i.e., with a furrow of 8 inches 12 miles, 

 with a 12-inch one 8 miles, or 8 to 5^ leucas. 



The last occurs on p. 377, note 4 ("Domesday 

 Book and Beyond "), where the author corrects 

 Miss Lamond's rendering of a noune, from 3 p.m. 

 to 12 mid-day the technical point I cannot 

 pretend to discuss, but on p. 415 (vol. i., Ramsey 



Extension System from our fountains of learning may com- 

 mence at home, by giving those pioneers who are to enlighten 

 the supposed darkness of the rural mind, such an elementary 

 knowledge of arithmetic, as to place them on somewhat more 

 even terms with the average carticarius in matters of simple 

 addition, division, etc. 



