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land that was cultivated in 1086. North of the Thames, 

 the Church paid only i8 per cent, of the geld, while it 

 owned 22 per cent, of the land that was cultivated. More 

 than half of the cultivated area of Kent and Worcestershire 

 belonged to the Church, which, however, owned less than 

 one-tenth of Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire. In 

 the four Danish shires of Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, and 

 Lincoln, the Church owned less than nj per cent, of the 

 cultivated land ; while in the three shires of Gloucester, 

 Worcester, and Hereford, which represent the old kingdom of 

 the Hwiccas, it owned 36 per cent. These figures appear to 

 show that the Kings of Wessex were more lavish in their 

 gifts to the Church than the Kings of Mercia, and that the 

 Church suffered much from the Danish invasions. Again, 

 there is a strip of country between the Thames and the Wash, 

 comprising the four counties of Middlesex, Hertford, Cam- 

 bridge, and Huntingdon, where the Church owned 39 per 

 cent, of the cultivated land. 1 



Domesday Book mentions the two Archbishops of Canter- 

 bury and York, and thirteen suffragan bishops those of 

 Rochester, Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, Wells, 

 London, Lincoln, Thetford, Worcester, Hereford, Chester, and 

 Durham. As would be expected, the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury was the wealthiest prelate. His estates in seven counties 

 were assessed at 992^ hides in 1066, and employed 1631^ 

 teams in 1086. Omitting his large estates in Yorkshire, much 

 of which was waste, and in Durham, which is omitted from 

 Domesday Book, the Archbishop of York owned land which 

 was assessed at 256 hides in 1066, and employed 555^ teams 

 in 1086. The wealthiest suffragan bishop was the Bishop of 

 Winchester, whose land employed 1030 teams in 1086 ; but he 

 was nearly approached by the Bishop of Worcester, with 1000 

 teams, and the Bishop of Exeter with 909^ teams. The two 

 poorest sees were those of Rochester, with 118 teams, and 

 Chichester, with 148.2 



1 See Table A. 2 See Table B. 



