Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth CenturiesRound, John Horace
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Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Round, John Horace
Domesday book; Feudalism -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154; Normans -- Great Britain
Dullingham 10 16 £19 5 0
Stetchworth 10 13-1/4 12 15 0
Borough Green
and Westley 10 17 17 1 4
Carlton 10 19-1/2 18 10 0
Weston 10 19-1/4 13 15 0
Wratting 10 15-3/4 8 8 0
Balsham 10 20 12 13 4
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70 120-3/4 £102 7 8
Here again we have seven Vills varying in area from thirteen and a
quarter ploughlands to twenty, and in value from £8 8s to £19 5s, all
uniformly assessed at ten hides each. The thing speaks for itself. Had
the hidation in these two Hundreds been dependent on area or value,
the assessments would have varied infinitely. As it is, there is for
each Vill but one and the same assessment.
Note further that the I.C.C. enables us to localize holdings the
locality of which is unnamed in Domesday: also, that it shows us
how certain Vills were combined for the purpose of assessment. Thus
Borough Green and Westley are treated in Domesday as distinct, but
here we find that they were assessed together as a ten-hide block.
By this means we are enabled to see how the five-hide system could be
traced further still if we had in other districts the same means of
learning how two or three Vills were thus grouped together.
We may now take a step in advance, and pass to the Hundred of
Whittlesford.
HUNDRED OF WHITTLESFORD
(_Inq. Com. Cant._, pp. 38-43)
_Hides_ _Ploughlands_ _Valets_
(T.R.E.)
Whittlesford 12 } 20 11 } 20 £15 2 0 } £34 2 0
Sawston 8 } 9 } 19 0 0 }
Hinxton 20 16 20 10 0
Icklington 20 24-1/2 24 5 0
Duxford 20 20-1/4 27 5 0
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80 80-3/4 £106 2 0
Here we are left to discover for ourselves that Whittlesford and
Sawston were grouped together to form a twenty-hide block. And on
turning from the above figures to the map we find the discovery
verified, these two Vills jointly occupying the northern portion of
the hundred. Thus, this hundred, instead of being divided like its
two predecessors into ten-hide blocks, was assessed in four blocks of
twenty hides each, each of them representing one of those quarters so
dear to the Anglo-Saxon mind (_virgata_, etc.), and lying respectively
in the north, south, east and west of the district. Proceeding on the
lines of this discovery, we come to the Hundred of Wetherley, which
carries us a step further.
HUNDRED OF WETHERLEY
(_Inq. Com. Cant._, pp. 68-83)
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