THE HIDE AND THE TEAMLAND 41 



that in the east riding of Yorkshire, as a general rule, the 

 formula, " There are A carucates for geld ; land for A teams," 

 is found in those manors which were cultivated on the two- 

 field system ; and that a three-field system is implied where 

 the formula is, " There are A carucates for geld ; land for 2 A 

 teams." 1 But we must remember that Yorkshire had been 

 wasted by the Conqueror, and that in no other county are 

 the ratios between the assessable units and the teams so 

 invariable as in Yorkshire ; and although his theory may be 

 adopted as showing the principle on which a new assessment 

 was imposed, it would be useless to attempt to apply it to 

 other counties, where the system of assessment had been 

 existing for centuries. 



The student will not fail to notice the existence of caru- 

 cates in the hidated districts, but he will at once perceive 

 that these carucates are lands that are free from geld. At 

 Sherborne "the monks hold 9^ carucates of land which 

 neither were divided into hides nor paid geld ; " 2 and in the 

 geld inquests prefixed to the Exeter Domesday, the hundred 

 of Ailestebba (Dorset) was stated to contain " 8 carucates 

 which never gelded, and 73 hides." 3 Often these carucated 

 estates were royal manors : Sambourne (Hants) was a royal 

 manor, but was not distributed into hides, 4 and of the royal 

 manors that rendered the farm of one night, it is constantly 

 recorded, as at Calne, " It never gelded ; therefore it is un- 

 known how many hides are there." 5 



The assessment of Norfolk and Suffolk differs from that 

 of the rest of England. In these two counties hides or caru- 

 cates for geld are never mentioned ; but in their place is 

 stated the number of pence paid by each property when a 

 geld of one pound is payable by the hundred ; thus Babing- 

 ley (Norfolk) paid 2s. out of 2OJ. of geld. 6 



1 D. S., i. 143. 2 D. B., I. 77 a I. 



3 D. B., IV. 7. Id., I. 39 b i. 



5 Id., 64 b 2. Id., II. 256. 



