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NOTE 



The reader should bear In mind throughout that the 

 date of the Domesday Survey is 1086 ; that King Edward, 

 to whose time it refers as ' T.R.E.', died January 5, 1066 ; 

 that the ' hide ' was the unit of assessment on which the 

 (Dane)geld was paid, and that the 'virgate ' was its quarter. 

 The essential portion of the plough ('caruca') was its 

 team of oxen, eight in number. The ' demesne ' was the 

 lord's portion of the manor, the peasantry holding the rest 

 of it under him ; and a ' berewick ' was an outlying estate 

 dependent on the chief manor. The woodland measures 

 and the names of the agricultural classes are discussed in 

 the Introduction. 



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