1 3 i Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



and more cautiously Prof. Maitland, accept such 

 entries as areal extents, and thereby attach con- 

 Viit1n e s sex s^erable holdings to the villeinage of Middlesex 

 and their (the average villan here holds i virgate, cases of 

 io^ ngs> i villan with 2 Hides at Hanwell and W. Bed- 

 font) ; now a test case can be found in the Manor 

 of Heruluestune (Harlesden Green, fo. 127^, and 

 but once noted in D. B.), belonging to St. Paul's, 

 where are 4 Teamlands, 2 ploughs in demesne, 

 and \ plough held by 22 villeins, of whom 12 

 hold virgates and 10 half virgates. The total 

 in villeinage (assuming each virgate = 30 acres) 

 amounts to 510 acres, against which set 4 oxen, 

 or if the land were fully stocked 2 ploughs, and 

 whether or not 510 acres could be tilled either by 

 4 oxen, or a couple of ploughs must be left to 

 the sober judgment of any in the least acquainted 

 with practical agriculture. To them it must be 

 clear either that the acres here are rateable, or that 

 they consisted largely of pasture (not improbable 

 owing to proximity to London), or that the vir- 

 gate in this Manor actually contained but a small 

 number of acres. 



Peterboro 1 Concerning the appended'" tables, the virgate has 



JnJuheir t> een taken as 30 acres arable (save Alwoltuna, 



iT 2 mS 8 where 25 ac., see Rot. Hund., vol. ii., p. 638), 



though ancient evidences do not establish it to 



have been entirely in tillage ; and it may be seen 



that in 1086 there were 109^ teamlands, 104 



teams, and 348 recorded folk, against 139 teams 



and 434 pop. (recorded) in 1125-8, and at the 



* See tables, pp. 132, 133, and note that Estona has 12 fiscal 

 carucates in 1086, and 3 hides ad in War am, 1 125 ; co. Leics. 

 being rated both by Hides and Carucates : see note, p. 39. 



