

CHAPTER VIII 

 THE APPURTENANCES OF THE MANOR 



" Quantum silvce f Quantum prati ? Quot pascuarum ? Quot 

 molini ? Quot piscarice ? " 



MR. SEEBOHM has shown that, in addition to the two 

 or three fields of arable land lying round a thirteenth- 

 century village, it, like a properly equipped farm of 

 to-day, also possessed woods, meadows, and pastures ; and 

 we find that, with but few exceptions, these woods, meadows, 

 and pastures are recorded in Domesday Book. Other appur- 

 tenances were enumerated by the Commissioners, which are 

 not included in the questions addressed to the Cambridge- 

 shire jurors. 



I. THE WOODS 



Every page of Domesday Book shows that eight hundred 

 years ago there was more woodland in England than there 

 is to-day: its silences are as eloquent as its statistics. The 

 map of Sussex, which gives only the villages and settlements 

 mentioned in Domesday Book, shows that only its southern 

 part was settled in 1086 ; at least one-third of that county 

 was then a wild trackless district, including much woodland, 

 parts of which St. Leonard's Forest and Ashdown Forest 

 even now remain in their primaeval state. The southern 

 part of Surrey was similarly uninhabited, and the boundary 

 between the two counties was not defined till much later. 



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