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58,333 small ploughs for the 3,500,000 comple- 

 mental acres; that is, 70,833 (i.e., 4i,666f only 

 by the method of T>. B.) teams for 5,000,000 

 acres arable, and more particularly 37,500 four- ox 

 ploughs for 2,250,000 acres held by villeins, at 

 the rate of about 3 villeins per 4 oxen, which is 

 not agreeable to what he has written about the 

 gebur and normal villein being stocked, with a 

 couple of oxen. 



There seem to be several sources of error, for 

 the 9 counties table demonstrates the lords' teams 

 were 30% of the total, and as their scope was more 

 considerable than that of those of the tenantry, 

 Bordars there might well be some f of the total arable 

 pfou n g h ad i n demesne ; also the bordars contributed to the 

 oxen, 1086. ploughs by the witness of Domesday (fo. 303^., 

 two bordars with one plough^ no other tenants 

 named ; and often together with the villeins), and 

 as already shown the evidence from it is against the 

 teams being other than 8 oxen, that is to wit, what- 

 ever the actual mode of husbandry, the teams seem 

 to be reckoned in units of 8 oxen. 

 Method of In the table of 9 counties, Taylor's Domesday 



Table of . r i f^\ > j i_ 



Nine Analysis furnishes Gloster, and the rest are on 



Counties. ^ autnor ' s responsibility ; all ploughs not in 



demesne are counted on the other side, so that 



ample correction should be made for the villeins f 



oxen, J la, 2o6a ; seven oxen, 286^ ; eight oxen (not found nor 

 to be expected) ; nine oxen, 359^ ; and ten oxen, 366*7. 



* See note on p. 1 1 for instances selected from 20 

 counties. 



f The following 64 references from D. B. illustrate the 

 Villani of 1086 : as equated to sokemen, 209^ ; as under sokemen, 



