Idem [Turstinus] tenet de R. Idem Turstinus tenet de Roberto iiij. car. terræ in in Clachestone iiii. car. terræ Clachestone. Terra est ii. et Tetbald[us] ii. car. terræ. caruca. Has habent ibi iii. Ibi est in dominio i. caruca et sochemanni cum ii. villanis iii. sochemanni et v. villani et ii. bordariis. Ibi viii. et iiii. [_sic_] bordarii cum acræ prati. Valuit et valet iii. carucis et i. servo. Ibi x. solidos. xiii. acræ prati. Valuit et valet totum xx. solidos. Has Tetbald[us] tenet de Roberto terras tenuerunt T.R.E. Outi et ii. car. terræ in Clachestone. Arnui cum saca et soca. In dominio est i. caruca cum i. servo et iii. villani cum i. bordario habent i. car. Ibi vi. acræ prati. Valuit et valet x. solidos. Here the last two entries (both relating to Claxton) have been boldly thrown into one in the second version, which also (though omitting the number of ploughlands) gives additional information in the name of Robert's father, and in those of his predecessors T.R.E. This is thus an excellent illustration of the liberty allowed themselves by the compilers of Domesday. An instance on a smaller scale is found in the Survey of Cambridgeshire, where we read on opposite pages: In Witelesfeld hund'. In Witelesf' h'd. In histetone jacet Wara In histetune jac' Wara de i. hida et dimidia de de hida et dimidia de M. Cestreforde et est in Cestres' man. et est Exsesse appreciata, hanc appreciata in Exexe. terram tenuit Algarus Algar comes tenuit comes (i. 189 _b_). (i. 190). The second entry has been deleted as a duplicate, but it serves to show us that the scribes, even when free from error, were no mere copyists.[45] III. 'SOCA' AND 'THEINLAND' The extracts I have given above establish beyond a doubt the existence among the 'sochemanni' of two kinds of tenure. We have (1) those who were free to part with (_vendere_) and leave (_recedere_) their land, (2) those who were not, i.e. who could not do so without the abbot's licence. This distinction is reproduced in two terms which I will now examine. In the _Inquisitio Eliensis_ and the documents connected with it there is much mention of the 'thegnlands' of the Abbey. These lands are specially distinguished from 'sokeland' (_terra de soca_). Both, of course, are distinct from the 'dominium'. Thus in one of the Conqueror's writs we read: Restituantur ecclesiæ terræ que in _dominio_ suo erant die obitus Æduardi.... Qui autem tenent _theinlandes_ que procul dubio debent teneri de ecclesia faciant concordiam cum abbate quam meliorem poterint,... Hoc quoque de tenentibus _socam_ et _sacam_ fiat.[46]