26 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



A.S. T N Saxonf charters from the 7th century on- 



wards grants are made as the land of so many 

 manentes, cassati, tributarii, and the terms 

 mansae, mansiunculae, hida londe, sulungs occur as 

 well as ploughlands, yoklets, and acres, some 

 avowedly and others presumably by way of estima- 

 tion : plainly not all equating each other, tho' some 

 of them synonymous. Now it so happens that 

 sometimes the numerical estimate agrees with that 

 of Domesday ; for example before 988 Woldham 

 came to the Bishop of Rochester for 6 Sulungs 

 (Reg. RofF.) which estimate is repeated 1086 

 (D. B. s.v. Oldham) ; in 948 Edred restored to 

 the church at Winchester 100 mansae at Downton 

 and Ebbesburn (K. 421) which by Domesday was 

 100 Hides in the time of Cnut, and the same less 

 3 in 1065 (fo. 650). Edgar in 972 (K"' 570) 

 granted to Pershore perpetual freedom in their 

 choice of abbot, in which deed upwards of 300 

 mansae in Glos'ter and Worcester are named, and 

 tho' in 1086 the Abbot had not actual possession, 

 he had rights over a similar number of Hides 

 (D. B.) ; in 725 Ine granted 12 manentes to 

 Glastonbury in Sowey (K* 74) which had 1 2 Hides 

 in 1086 ; in 984 Ethelred's charter to the nuns of 

 Shaftesbury names "twen tiwe hiwe at tissebiri," 

 where a like number 1086 ; in 998 (Reg. Roff.) 

 are some 6 Sulungs at Bromley (with further estate 

 in Andrede's Wood) by measure, and in 1086, ten 

 teamlands and 6 Sulungs at the former place, and 

 should any dislike of the above by reason of their 



< Norman > f In Norman charters, the land of a plough (caruca), fre- 



1 Charters, j q ue ntly ; no indication ofzcarucata ad gheldum (On/. Vit?) : the 



term Saxon is loosely used for the people of England (from 



whatever source deriving), before the advent of Duke William. 



