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per plough, which, as they can seldom be dis- 

 entangled from bordars and sokemen, cannot be 

 done with precision. The casts differ somewhat 



ii. 392 ; as paying forfeits, ijb ; as chattels (bore away a rustic Villani 



who was remaining on I virg.) 30*2 ; as holding land at farm, jjjjjjjj 1 * 16 * 1 



127^ ; as paying tithes, 38*2 ; freeman who had^ now a villan, Domesday. 



ii. I ; as witnesses, \\b (de villanis et vili plebe), and ii. 393 ; 



as rent payers, 52^ (ios. p. ann.), 1824 (18 villans, 6 bord., 



and I priest render i8s.), 263*7 (l villan, 8d.) ; as fractional 



persons, nob (\ a villan), 168*2 (7 half vill.), 196/2 (ij vill.), 



and 252*2 (4 whole, and 6 half vill.) the partition seemingly 



in reference to amount of services due ; as paying relief on 



royal Manors* 30^ (205.), iSia (an ox) ; as paying ghe 'Id, 203*2 ; 



as rendering custom, ii. 5 (a villan had and rendered custom) ; 



certain villans quit from all thing of the Sheriff, 30^ ; as holding 



or having held lands, 266 (the villans held it T. R. E.) ; 40*2 



(the like) ; 41^ (41 vill. hold and held it) ; \\b (28 vill. 



hold and held it ; no hall) ; 73^ (the villans hold it) ; 175*2 



(the land was of the demesne of the villans) ; and 273*? 



(other 3 carucates of land are of the villans) ; as with specif ed 



holdings, 12^ (30 vill. held 4 solins, T. R. E.), 29*2 (l vill. 



holds and held I virg.), 192*2 (8 vill., 7j ac. each), 198^ 



(5 vill. hold 253. worth of land), ii. 3 (l vill. holds 30 ac., 



another 15 ac.), ii. 5 (l vill. had J), and in Hanwell and 



West Bedfont, co. Midi, are 3 vill. with 2 Hides each, the 



highest amount writer has found (see p. 131); as to Status, 



^.la (a certain prefect held 5f Hides, 2 of them as a villan), 



41^ (Aluric held 3 virg. as a villan), 6Sa (5^ Hides held by 



men of the church serving as villans), compare 175^ (making 



services as other freemen), 269^ (thanes working as villans), 



and ii. 145 (6 free villans) ; as to Servile work, ija (the 



burgesses worked like vill. at the court), i66a (the reeve has 



ij villans), 182*2 (the men of another vill labor in this one), 



246/2 (8 burgesses working as other villans), and 291^ (the 



work of the villans pertains to Saxebi in Lines.) ; as to 



number of plough oxen varying from none to 3 J pis. to 3 villans 



(182^), which may be compared with 180^(1 bordar, I pi.), 



in certain cases it might appear the villan had 2 pis., but 



such (21^, 317*7, and 327*2 Hugh has I vill. and 2 pis.) 



