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of fractions may reasonably be made to bring an abnormal 

 assessment within the 5 -hide rule. 



Some examples of these rules may be found in Oxfordshire ; 

 but in this county the scribe has very rarely followed the rule 

 which exists in the other counties, of entering in the right- 

 hand margin the name of the hundred in which a particular 

 property lies. The hundreds must therefore be reconstituted 

 from later evidence, and it must remain uncertain whether the 

 later hundred coincides with the Domesday hundred. All 

 the villages in the modern hundred of Langtree were included 

 therein in the Hundred Rolls of 1279. Their Domesday 

 statistics may be tabulated as follows : 



If to the 6\ hides of Gethampton we may add the half- 

 hide of Edward, the situation of which is unspecified, 1 we have 

 here a long (or English) hundred of 120 hides; and there is 

 reason to think that this was the assessment of the normal 

 hundred of Oxfordshire in 1086. 



The number of hides in a hundred varied greatly. Mr. 

 Round gives the hidage of nine hundreds of Cambridge- 

 1 D. B., I. 157 a i. 



