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
{Peckenham 13-1/2}
III. {Bradfield 5 } 26-1/2
{Fornham St Genevieve 8 }
IV. {Thurston 16 } 27
{Woolpit 11 }
V. {Rushbrook 7 } 27
{Ratlesden 20 }
{Hessett 18 }
VI. {Felsham 5 } 28
{Bradfield 5 }
{Gedding 5 }
VII. {Whelnetham 10 } 26
{Drinkston 11 }
{Ampton 7 }
VIII. {Tostock 10-1/2} 27-1/2
{Staningfield 10 }
IX. {Tinworth 14 } 26
{Livermere 12 }
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241-1/2 (£1 0s 1-1/2d)
The same unit of 27 (x9)--or, which comes to the same thing, 13-1/2
(x18)--was adopted in Risbridge Hundred. In this case no less than
five Manors are assessed at the same unit--13-1/2d. So, again, in the
Hundred of Blackbourn the units are 34-1/2d and 17-1/4d, one Manor
being assessed at the former, and five at the latter sum. Such is the
key to the peculiar system of East Anglian assessment.
It is to be noted that 'twenty shillings'[190] represents ten hides
at two shillings on the hide (the normal Danegeld rate), and thus
suggests that in Norfolk, as in Cambridgeshire, the Hundreds were
normally assessed in multiples of ten hides. The point, however, that
I want to bring out is that the Hundred, not the Manor, nor even
the Vill, is here treated as 'the fiscal unit for the collection of
Danegeld'.[191]
XIII. THE WORDS 'SOLINUM' AND 'SOLANDA'[192]
Several years ago I arrived at the conclusion that the identity of
these two words was an unsupported conjecture. So long as it remained
a conjecture only, its correction was not urgent; but since then, as
is so often the case, the result of leaving it unassailed has been
that arguments are based upon it. There appeared in the _English
Historical Review_ for July 1892 a paper by Mr Seebohm, in which that
distinguished scholar took the identity for granted, as his no
less distinguished opponent, Professor Vinogradoff, has done in his
masterly work on _Villainage in England_.
I believe the alleged identity was first asserted by Archdeacon Hale,
who wrote in his _Domesday of St. Paul's_ (1858), p. xiv:
The word _solanda_, or, as it is written at p. 142,
_scolanda_, is so evidently a Latinized form of the
Anglo-Saxon _sulung_, or ploughland, and approaches so near
to the Kentish _solinus_, that we need scarcely hesitate to
consider them identical.
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