_Hides_ _Folio_ Staines 19 128 'In Speletorne Hundred' 1 128_b_ 'Hatone' 1-1/2 129 Haneworde 5 129 'Leleham' 2 129 'Exeforde' 1 129 'Bedefunt' 2 129 Felteham 12 129 Stanwelle 15 130 'Bedefunde' 10 130 'West Bedefunde' 8 130 'Haitone' 1-5/6[125] 130 'Leleham' 8 130_b_ 'In Hundredo de Spelethorne' 2/3[126] 130_b_ 'Cerdentone' 5 130_b_ 'Exeforde' is Ashford, which 'appears from a very early period till after the dissolution of the monasteries to have been an appendage of Stains'.[127] Thus we obtain an assessment of 20 hides for Staines _cum_ Ashford. So too we have at once for Laleham an assessment of ten hides, while that of East and West Bedfont was, we see, twenty hides. The most striking case, however, is that of Hatton; for, if we add to its two named Manors the nameless estates in the above list, the four fit in like a puzzle, giving us an aggregate assessment of exactly five hides. The hundred, therefore, was assessed thus: _Hides_ Stains with Ashford 20 Stanwell 15 West Bedfont 10 East Bedfont 10 Laleham 10 Feltham 12 Hanworth 5 Charlton 5 Hatton, etc. 5 Let us now connect the territorial with the institutional unit. Dealing in my 'Danegeld' essay with the evident assessment of towns in terms of the five-hide unit, I traced it to the fact that 'five hides were the unit of assessment for the purpose of military service'.[128] The evidence I have adduced in the present paper carries further its significance; but we must not allow its financial to obscure its military importance. I appealed, at that time, to the Exeter instance: Quando expeditio ibat per terram aut per mare serviebat hæc civitas quantum v. hidæ terræ; and to the service of Malmesbury: Quando rex ibat in expeditione vel terra vel mari habebat de hoc burgo aut xx. solidos ad pascendos suos buzecarlos aut unum hominem ducebat secum pro honore v. hidarum.[129]