Agricultural Statistics 136 



726 acres, i.e., 5^ Hides, i^ Virgates plus one 

 acre, as under : 



200 acres arable in demesne 



450 land by 1 8 villans of 25 acres each 



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132 34 cottars 

 726 acres 



In addition 2 free tenants hold 28^ acres, and 

 belonging to the demesne \ acre of court and 

 garden, i ac. of several pasture with 8 of meadow, 

 and of course (tho' unnamed) presumably some con- 

 siderable amount of common of pasture, and wood, 

 which if extra manorial the tenants had access to ; 

 the writer is of opinion that several pasture and 

 meadow is included in the villein holdings (the 

 plough oxen would require hay), but has made 

 no deduction on that ground. There are 59 

 tenants, but 4 are 2- named, and 5 widows in 

 cottages, and as the extent seems a full one, I do 

 not think the record population should be put 

 higher than 50 ; the 1 8 virgates (450 ac.) seem 

 to appear as the same amount in 1125-8, held 

 then by 7 full and 22 semi-villani, and the 62^ acres 

 of 1278-9 might well have been assarted for the 

 support of increasing population since 1125-8, in 

 which there is no mention of them. But I cannot 

 find that one has right in saying that the 756 acres 

 (keeping some 50 recorded folk) in 1278-9 were 

 in cultivation therefore in 1125-8, (keeping 

 36 people), and that therefore 9 ploughs worked 

 746 acres then and in 1086 ; even if after the 

 most ingenuous manner of the English Historical 



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