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F. Baring), and the patient reader is gravely in- 

 formed " he can thus arrive at the exact acreage 

 of holdings 1086," that is, like a modern Charon, 

 by transfretting the villans and their ploughs of 

 1086 on to the acres (by no means all in villein- 

 age) of 1222. Just to exhibit this happy method 

 of enlivening the " bald details " of Domesday, take 

 the cases of Runewell and Cadendone (Domesday 

 St. Paul's, 1222), as cited by our author on p. 288 

 (E. H. R., 1 897) ; one is told of 240 acres in 1222 

 (best part of them set to a rent by the way) de- 

 scribed as 8 tenants' virgates, and of 8 villans and 

 8 bordars with i\ ploughs here (Runewell) 1086, 

 and invited to believe that therefore the D. B. villans 

 each had 30 acres, working 1 20 acres per plough. 

 On referring to the Camden Society's vol. (D. B., 

 St. Paul's) the jurors of Runewell state the Hide their 

 was formerly computed at 80 acres, but now m 

 (1222) it is 1 20, and that on account of the 

 poverty of some of the villein tenants their hold- 

 ings had been taken into the demesne ; on adding 

 up the occupants of the Manor 1222 one finds 

 34-38 tenants (not eight as our author suggests, 

 supported by nothing unless his endeavour to tie 

 a virgate to each D. B. villan at all hazards) 

 against 16 in 1086. Turning to Cadendon, by 

 some process of adding up divers sorts of holdings 

 in 1222 what are styled 24^- " tenants virgates" of 

 28 acres each (686 ac.) are discovered for 22 D. B. 

 villans (io86)" ? who had 6 ploughs, hence 112 acres 



* The writer seems to have been unaware there is further 

 notice of this Manor of St. Paul's on fo. 211/7, hence his 



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