7 8 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



Book of Knights' Fees, 6 Hen. VI. Staincliffe Wap., Yorks. 



Lord de Roos holds in 



Thornton ... loj car. by service of J fee 



Joan, Countess of West- 

 morland holds in Kettle- 

 well 6 \ 



In the 2nd extract from the Preface to the Red 

 Book, the editor cites H. R., II., 830, where Hugh 

 de Musgrave holds i Hide as J fee, which is duly 

 found as stated but it would be singular if so vast 

 a bulk as the Hundred Rolls could not furnish 

 such an instance ; here are a few more to be found 

 in same Vol. II. : p. 575, 2 fees equal to 6-| 

 Hides ; p. 578, i fee to 2 Hides ; p. 580, \ fee to 

 3! Hides, also J fee to 3 Hides, p. 584, 1 fee 

 to f Hides ; p. 585, -J- fee to ij Hides, also 1 fee 

 to 2 Hides; p. 336, i fee -to 10 Hides (see 

 " Feudal Aids " where Doddington is given as i fee 

 in 1284, 1302, and 1346), also Mursele, Ro. /. 

 Nigel, ^ fee to 2 Hides and more, and p. 334, 

 i fee to 5^ Hides, which are given to show that 

 the Hide was here a varying portion of the Fee, 

 not touching on the point that in the H. R. it is 

 often an areal measure or approximately so. This 

 same extract notes a scale (where 4 Hides = i fee) 

 recognised as late as the i6th century, which 

 possibly refers to pp. 442-7 of No. 49 Surtees Soc., 

 where is a computation as above, with an editorial 

 note that same seems to have been compiled about 

 the latter part of the i6th cent. ; this scale also 

 gives tables for 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 

 16, 1 8, 23, 24, and 28 carucates per fee, not 

 stating which of the latter is " normal." Supposing 



