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
{ 1 1 1 { 5 0
{ 1/2 7-1/2 1 10{ 4-1/2 0
5{ 3 8 3 { 1/2 0
{ 1/2
------------- ------------- ---------------
15 0 20 0 20 0
I now give three illustrations of slight discrepancies:
_Streatley_ _Sutton_ _Eaton Socon_
_H._ _V._ _H._ _V._ _H._ _V._
1 0 { 0 3 20 0
4 1 { 1 0 6 3
4-1/3 0 5{ 1-1/2 0 0 1-1/2
0 2/3 { 1/2 0 0 1/2
0 2/3 { 0 3-1/2 9 1
{ 0 1-1/2 0 5-1/2
2 0 2 1/2
0 3 0 1
1/2 0
0 1-1/2
1 0
------------- ------------- -------------
9 3-2/3 9 0-1/2 40 1
In the first case there is a deficiency of 1/120, and in the second of
7/80, while in the third we find an excess of 1/160. No one can doubt
that these were really ten-hide, ten-hide, and forty-hide townships.
We have to allow, in the first place, for trivial slips, and in the
second for possible errors in the baffling work of identification
at the present day. One can hardly doubt that if a student with the
requisite local knowledge set himself to reconstruct, according
to Hundreds, the Bedfordshire Domesday, he would find, as in
Cambridgeshire, that even where a township was not assessed in terms
of the five-hide unit, it was combined in an adjacent one in such an
assessment.
We will now cross the border into Huntingdonshire, and enter the great
Hundred of Hurstingston. This, which may be described as a _double_
Hundred, was assessed, Domesday implies, at 200 hides. Quartering this
total, on the Cambridgeshire system, we obtain fifty hides, and this
quarter was the assessment allotted to the borough of Huntingdon.[102]
The total assessment of the Hundred was thus accounted for:
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