_Hides_ Huntingdon 50 St. Ives (Slepe) 20 Hartford 15 Spaldwick 15 Stukeley 10 Abbots Ripton 10 Upwood 10 Warboys 10 Calne 6 } Bluntisham 6-1/2 } 20-1/2[103] Somersham 8 } Wistow[104] 9 Holywell 9 Houghton 7 Wyton 7 Broughton 4 Catworth 4[105] -------- 200-1/2 Passing on into Northamptonshire, we come to that most curious document, which I shall discuss below (_see_ p. 124), and which was printed by Ellis (_Introduction to Domesday_, i. 187 _et seq._). Ellis, however, can scarcely have read his own document, for he speaks of it as a list 'in which every Hundred is made to consist of a _hundred hides_'.[106] This extraordinary assertion has completely misled Dr Stubbs, who writes: The document given by Ellis as showing that the Hundreds of Northampton each contained a hundred hides seems to be a mere attempt of an early scribe to force them into symmetry.[107] It is greatly to be wished that some one with the requisite local knowledge should take this list in hand and work out its details thoroughly. In capable hands it should prove a record of the highest interest. For the present I will only point out that its contents are in complete harmony with the results that I obtained on the Hundred in Cambridgeshire; for it gives us Hundreds assessed at 150 (four), 100 (nine), 90 (two), 80 (four), 60 (one), and 40 (one) hides, with a small minority of odd numbers. This list throws further light on the institution of the Hundred by its recognition of 'double' and 'half' Hundreds. Note also in this connection the preference for 100-hide and fifty-hide assessments, which here amount to thirteen out of the twenty instances above, and in Cambridgeshire to four out of nine. These signs of an endeavour to force such assessments into terms of a fifty-hide unit will be dealt with below.[108] In Hertfordshire, as indeed in other counties, there is great need for that local research which alone can identify and group the Domesday holdings. So far as single Vills are concerned, Bengeo affords a good illustration of the way in which scattered fractions work out in combination.