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linear measurements of the leuga (i^ miles), which 

 does not greatly flatter the 1 20 acre theory. Again 

 on fo. 165^ D. B. is a clear instance of a teamland 

 of 64 acres ; here is i Hide which when ploughed \ team l ? 



T. . , . . r . & 64 acres in 



contains not unless than 64 acres, and there is one Domesday, 

 plough ; truly a small Hide (for their average 

 areal scope is 300 acres and more), but nothing to 

 show it is a small ploughland, as it is worked not 

 by 2, 4, or 6 oxen, but by one plough.* 



Very similar results follow from an examination 

 of the lands held by the tenantry of the Bishop of 

 Ely, for which reference should be made to the Ely 

 Inquisitio Eliensis as well as D. B. ; thus under 

 Cambridge to each plough of the tenants are in 

 Wittleseia 32 acres, Doddintona 60, Litelport J5, 

 Stoneteneia jo, Stratham, 50, Wilbertona 5^, 

 Lyndona 80 or 58, Heilla 40, Wisbeach 56, Ely 

 42^, Dunham ^5, Winteworda 48 \ Wickham 68, 

 Sutton 5<9, and Wicheforda ^5, and in Herts, 

 Haddam 28, Hatfield 58, and Chilleshelle 40, but 

 here a difficulty arises, for the areas ascribed to 

 the tenantry may be rather rateable than real, and 

 also each villein plough will owe to till some of 

 the land of the lord. Now certainly Seebohm, 



* It is interesting to note how this passage has been 

 twisted, for in the Rev. Bawdwen's translation he renders it 

 that there are 64 acres when the land is not ploughed ; the 

 point seems to be that when you plough the land, you roughly 

 know its measure ; but perhaps the most singular misappre- 

 hension of any writer on D. B. occurs on p. 71 of Morgan's 

 "England under the Normans," where, referring to 63/7, 

 ipse quoque transport avit kalian et alias domos et pecuniam in 

 alio manerio the writer suggests this would not be difficult, as 

 the buildings were constructed of wooden boards, etc. 



