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have yet to be dealt with, those of Winkleigh and Tavistock, 
Winkleigh to all appearance is taken out of the original North 
Tawton Hundred ; and Tavistock Hundred seems as if it originally 
formed part of Lifton. It must be confessed, however, that it is 
difficult to account for this fact, if it be one, nor in the Domesday 
details of C does the Abbot of Tavistock appear under Lifton ; 
while in the other hundreds in which the Abbey had property the 
name occurs. Is it possible that the descent of the Danes upon 
Tavistock and Lydford in 997 has any connection with this] But 
the devastation they caused was recovered long before Domesday, 
wherein Tavistock appears as one of the most populous places in 
the county, next after the boroughs. 
I do not know that we can carry this immediate point much 
further. Making every allowance for indicated changes, we can 
hardly reckon the original hundreds at less than twenty-six, and 
this would give a Saxon population of the county, when Saxon 
government was first completely established, of about 15,00c). 1 
To this I will only add, that in the original limitation of the 
hundreds natural boundaries seem to have been adopted where 
available, chiefly river courses. For example, Walkhampton or 
Eoborough Hundred lies between the Tamar and Tavy and the 
Plym, and the original Plympton Hundred no doubt extended from 
the Plym to the Erme. 
It will be of some service in this inquiry if we turn from the 
ancient civil divisions of the county to the ancient ecclesiastical — 
from the hundreds to the deaneries. Now while it is quite true 
1 For the sake of comparison and completeness, I give the hundreds of 
Cornwall. 
A B C Hidage. Geld. Modern Names. 
Rieltone . Rieltone . Rilestona . 69-6 fe, 6 10 6 {^ZS^f^^Am 
Conartone . Conartone . Conarditonae 33 2 19 9 Penwith. 
Winnetone Winnentone Winnentone 36£ 1 16 0 Kiirier 
Tibesternae Tibestei . Tibestene . 61^-3 fer. 5 11 9 Powder, except N.W. 
Fawitone . Fauuitone . Fauuitone . 43£ 3 9 0 West, south of East 
Stratone . Stratone . Stratone . 83-3 vir. 8 6 6 { StMttMjaorttaf East, 
Pautone . Pautone . Pautone . 44 None. Trigg? east of Pyder 
There were many untaxed hides ; St. Petrock (Bodmin) had 30 hides that 
never gelded ; and from the lands of Bristic there was no geld except £1 7s. 6d. 
According to the hundreds, the population of Cornwall at the time of the 
completion of Saxon administration did not exceed 4,000. In Domesday it is 
enumerated at 5,438. 
