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cases lies between 52 and 5J acres a result which 

 any agriculturist would allow to be reasonable ; 

 working from these figures, and estimating for the 

 excess of population as recorded in these counties 

 (^'/denote p. 12), the difficulties named on p. 430, 

 D. B. and Beyond disappear, and the ratio of 

 Teamlands to Population appears as it should : see 

 also D. B. ii., 169, where the estate of 18 sokemen 

 (always 2 ploughs) is delivered for a land ; and ii., 

 171, where i Manor delivered for 5 carucates seems 

 to consist of 2 car. plus odd acres adding to 362. 



Passing to the evidence of Domesday Book and 

 later records, in 1086 (D. B.) it sometimes happens 

 that a rough approximation of the area of a Manor 

 or district is given in leugas, each of which have 

 been taken to represent i J statute miles. Thus a 

 Manor one leuga in length by as much in width 

 (by this computation) would contain i ,440 modern 

 acres ; no exactness of dimensions can be expected, 

 and of course the reality of rectangular blocks of 

 lands is not postulated. Sometimes one imagines 

 that greatest length and breadth is alluded to ; 

 at other times an average, and in most cases the 

 figures seem a rough estimate (the above remarks 

 follow after testing Yorkshire examples by Jefrery's 

 1770 i" maps); now 3 of the Ripon " mile " 



/m T i IT- i \ " mile" 



crosses (bharow, Bisnopton, and -Littlethorpe) are crosses. 

 about or within 1,760 yards of the Minster (D. B., 

 fo. 303^, about the church one leuga), and in the 

 Manor of Hackness (D. B., fo. 323*2), a modern 

 mile would seem an excessive quantity. A very 

 telling example is given on fo. 303^, as to the 

 berewicks of Ripon (6 leugas in length by as many 



