[Footnote 152: As with _maenols_ and _trevs_ in North and South Wales.] [Footnote 153: Mr Pell tried to explain it by assuming that the Leicestershire _carucates_ were really small virgates of the _hida_ in question!] [Footnote 154: This at once shows the absurdity of taking these eighteen carucates to be eighteen 'virgates' of a normal hide, and of all the reasoning based thereupon.] [Footnote 155: See more below on this point.] [Footnote 156: _English Historical Review_, v. 95.] [Footnote 157: Mr Stevenson, moreover, should surely, to obtain the meaning he wants, have extended _car_ as 'car[ucatarum]'.] [Footnote 158: I also hold the formula 'T.R.E. erant ibi _x_ car[ucæ]' to refer to ploughs, not ploughlands.] [Footnote 159: Note that the assessment of 2-5/8 carucates represented 2-1/2 ploughlands, and that of 9-3/8 carucates only 7 ploughlands. No relation, therefore, can be traced here.] [Footnote 160: _Conquest of England_, p. 121 note.] [Footnote 161: _Ibid._, p. 276.] [Footnote 162: _Chester Archæological Journal_, vol. v.] [Footnote 163: 'De harieta Lagemanorum habuit isdem picot viii. lib,' etc. (i. 189).] [Footnote 164: _Domesday Studies_, i. 143-86.] [Footnote 165: _Ibid._, 157.] [Footnote 166: According to Canon Taylor's ingenious theory, the ratio should be 1 to 1 (for two-field Manors), or 2 to 1 for three-field Manors. But in Leicestershire there is a remarkable prevalence of the 3 to 2 ratio, which his theory can, at best, only explain as exceptional.] [Footnote 167: _Supra_, p. 74.] [Footnote 168: The figures are taken from the 'Index' to the Hundreds at the close of the first volume of Domesday Book, and the names are arranged in the same order as they are there found.] [Footnote 169: There is plenty of similar evidence elsewhere in the shire. Thus we find the Craven Manors assessed at 6, 6, 6, 3, 3, 4, 6, 10, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3 carucates. These assessments would give us 24 (6 + 6 + 6 + 3 + 3) + 24 (4 + 6 + 10 + 2 + 2) + 18 (3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3) + 11 (2 + 3 + 3 + 3).] [Footnote 170: _Supra_, pp. 51, 62.] [Footnote 171: Compare the 'Reparto de la contribucion', found in the Spanish village communities, the members of which apportioned the assessment among themselves.] [Footnote 172: _Key to Domesday_: Dorset, p. 14.] [Footnote 173: The anomalous position of Rutland also was, of course, a disturbing element.] [Footnote 174: This low assessment is equally obvious in that of the several Manors.] [Footnote 175: Probably 1/27, as against about 1/6 for Somerset and Dorset jointly.]