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Hen. III. (L. R. Rolls Series V. ii., p. 736) 

 Variations 60 car. make a fee in Swynton, etc., and in 

 A - D - I 3 (! JP- M - R g- de Moubrai, as cited in 

 Grainge's Vale of Mow bray} 159 car. make a 

 fee these are extremes, but ample confirmation 

 of variations in practice may be found in the 

 Testa de N., Kirkby's Quest, and Knight's fees 

 31 Ed. I. (see vol. 49 Surtees Soc.), and it may be 

 remarked that the average 5-6 Hides would be far 

 from applying on the one hand to Yorks, or on 

 the other to Cornwall. The burden of supporting 

 the 4, 5, or 6 Hide theory falls on its promoters, 

 and receives no assistance from the subinfeudations 

 of tenants in cap. which are quite untrammelled 

 by any show of uniformity the following from 

 Domesday may be noted, 



Examples. Fee of Wm. Perci in Yorks ... 385-! car. 



Service. 



r 

 * 



in Lines ... some 58 

 Fee of Earl of Richmond inV . fco fees in 



Yorks }""* W* \ 5 Yorks 



and the Abbot of Ramsey had in all well over 

 300 Hides and Carucates, with a service of 

 4 Knights, but ecclesiastical fees are on a different 

 scale to lay ones. Further if Fiefs had been dis- 

 tributed on the 4, 5, or 6 Hide plan, the value of 

 a fee in Cornwall would have exceeded one in 

 Derby more than 6 times ; a grant of course might 

 well be as by Hides, premising no uniformity ; 

 some average fee there must be, but it would be 

 conveying but scant information of the ages of 

 4 individuals, two 60 and two 20, to state their 

 average age as 40. The ^20 p. a. value is another 



