The suggestion I have made as to the origin of the five-hide system is tentative only, and must remain so until we have at our disposal for the whole hidated region that complete and trustworthy analysis of assessment, on the need of which I again insist, at the risk of wearisome iteration. XII. THE EAST ANGLIAN 'LEET' In Norfolk and Suffolk we find Domesday recording assessed values not, as everywhere else, at the outset of an entry, but at its close; not in terms of hides and carucates, but in terms of shillings and pence. Instead of saying that a Manor paid on so many 'hidæ' or 'carucatæ terræ', Domesday, in the case of these counties, normally employs the phrase: '_x_ denarii de gelto'. Its meaning is that to every _pound_ paid by the Hundred as geld the Manor contributed _x_ pence.[182] Thus, in the case of a Hundred assessed at a hundred hides, the formula for a five-hide Manor would be here 'xii. denarii de gelto', instead of the usual 'defendit se pro v. hidis', or some such phrase as that. There is an exact parallel to this method of recording assessed values in the case of fractions of knights' fees where portions of land are entered as paying so much 'when the scutage is forty shillings', instead of being assessed in terms of the knight's fee.[183] This system would seem, however, to have been understood imperfectly if at all. I may, therefore, point out that its nature is clear from the case of the Suffolk Hundred of Thingoe. The case of this Hundred is singularly instructive. We find its twenty 'Vills' grouped in _blocks_, precisely as in the Cambridgeshire Hundreds, and these blocks are all _equal units of assessment_, like the ten-hide groups of the hidated districts. But in this case we can go further still, for we are not dependent on Domesday alone. The portion of a special Survey executed about a century later (_circ._ 1185) for Abbot Sampson of St Edmund's, which relates to its Hundred, is fortunately preserved, and gives us the name of the twelve 'leets' into which this Hundred was divided.[184] Here are the divisions recorded in it, with the Domesday assessment (in pence) of each Vill placed against its name. £ s d { Barrow 7 I.{ Flemington 6 { Lackford 6 ------ 19 0 1 7 II. Risby 20 0 1 8 { Saxham (_A_) 7 III.{ Saxham(_B_) 7 { Westley 6-1/2 ------ 20-1/2 0 1 8-1/2 IV.{ Hengrave 10 { Fornham 10 ------ 20 0 1 8